What would it take to create a high-performance beauty product built around British bio-based innovation? This week, hosted by BBIA and the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance, THG LABS’ Kristal Goodman and Jessica Lawther joined more than 30 organisations to explore exactly that.

Made by British Bio unites expertise from across the UK value chain with an ambitious goal: to demonstrate how renewable, bio-based carbon can be taken through ingredients, formulation, packaging and manufacturing to create a commercially viable beauty product, replacing fossil-derived carbon wherever technically possible.

Kristal, our Head of Product Innovation, led two of the sessions, helping explore a challenge that sits at the heart of the project: how innovative technologies and ingredients translate into high-performing formulations that can ultimately be manufactured successfully at commercial scale.

For THG LABS, this is where collaboration becomes particularly powerful. Bringing ingredient innovators, scientists, formulators, manufacturers and sustainability specialists together early gives us the opportunity to consider performance, feasibility and scale as part of the same conversation.

We’re delighted to be contributing our product development and manufacturing expertise to the initiative and to the wider ambition of showcasing the strength of the UK bioeconomy.

Thank you to Dr Jen Vanderhoven, FRSC, BBIA and CBA – we’re excited to moving this project forward.