Evonik turns to natural active ingredients in cosmetics
And to help the company move forward in this endeavour, the Essen-based company has acquired French start-up Alkion Biopharma SAS. The start-up, which is based in Evry, specialises in the creation of biotechnological active ingredients from plant biomass to be used in cosmetics. Alkion Biopharma was founded as a spin-off from the Imperial College in London in 2011. The company has developed methods for cultivating plant biomass under laboratory conditions and obtaining extracts from the biomass with an exceptionally high yield of complex ingredients.