Conference on Engineering Cosmetics and Consumer Products (ECCP 2019)

Green Extraction with a New Lipotropic Solvent for Performant Biomimetic Skin Actives: OSMOSTMconcept

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The unique and high-performance green Oléo-éco-extraction technology, developed and patented in France, is built on the idea of gathering the best from nature to cover a broad range of functions. Through this technology, ingredients of high purity and yield are produced in an ecologically sustainable way, without the use of organic solvents and with no risk of pollutants.

The resulting actives – called Oléoactif® – are holistically developed with a combination of several plants and oil-based solvents. Oléoactif® are created using vegetable oil to transfer the biological footprint of a plant directly into an oil-based complex. They are highly concentrated biomimetic actives that are easily formulated into virtually all cosmetic products.

Oléo-eco-extraction (OEE) is an eco-process intensified by high energy microwaves (MW) and low frequency ultrasounds (US) using natural triglyceridic oils as green, safe and bioactive extractants. To reduce production time and energy, a new co-intensified [MW+US] process has been applied with an innovative biomimetic solvent inspired both from plant membranes and skin cells. This concept, called OSMOSTM, is able to increase the extraction yield of phyto-molecules as well as their bioavailability as a skin delivery system.

The OSMOSTM concept provides a new plant and skin biomimetic system for green intensified eco-extraction of cosmetic actives that are safe, non-oxidized, stable, dry-touch, organic certified and highly bioavailable.