Post by Biotechnologies Group

A unique live probiotic skincare product is now on the shelves at some of the world’s most prestigious retailers, including Harrods, Selfridges and LIBERTY OF LONDON LIMITED. Getting it there, from its beginnings in a Dunedin lab, required solving a series of tricky fermentation and formulation challenges.  Biotech company BLIS Technologies Ltd. partnered with the scientists and engineers of the Biotechnologies Group to work their way through the challenges. The result was a skincare serum that delivers 350 million active probiotics per application. The probiotics are stable at room temperature for two years, making it one of the only truly live probiotic skincare products worldwide. Between 2016 and 2021, Biotechnologies Group experts developed and scaled the fermentation process to 1,000 litres, implemented specialist crossflow filtration and protective freeze-drying techniques, then conducted commercial-scale production runs. This work then enabled formulation studies, stability testing, safety studies with human participants, and clinical trials conducted in New Zealand that proved efficacy. Now under exclusive licence to Emma Lewisham, the product positions New Zealand as a pioneer in the still-emerging probiotic skincare category, where claims typically refer to inactive probiotics. Supernatural Blemish Serum is backed by patents and scientific publications demonstrating New Zealand’s capability in precision fermentation for high-value biological products.  John Hale Murray Kennedy John Tagg Paul Rose Stephanie Harvey Mike Mawdsley   #researchimpact #innovation #probiotics #skincare #NZbusiness #analyticalscience #lifesciences #naturalproducts #nutraceuticals #precisionfermentation

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