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Ingredients and more

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AT A GLANCE

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics

manufactures and markets innovative ingredients for the cosmetic and personal care industry. We offer active ingredients, functional ingredients, and delivery systems from various origins.

Unique, Sophisticated and Bio‑efficient Actives

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics’s product portfolio consists of unique, value-added, innovative active ingredients supported by rigorous scientific research.

We offer a sophisticated line of natural products, from marine and botanical sources, containing biomimetic peptides and biotech active ingredients. Our products are manufactured in compliance with the highest standards: We do not compromise on quality.

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics’s active cosmetic ingredients are designed to maintain the body’s natural responses, strengthen its defenses against environmental aggressions, prevent the appearance of signs of aging, and address other contemporary cosmetic challenges.

Our active ingredients provide biologists and cosmetic chemists with innovative solutions to challenge the limits of efficiency in personal care—natural biocompatible active ingredients or biomimetic peptides to renew the approach to skin aging, skin and hair protection, complexion enhancement or perfection of body silhouette.

The structure of the skin and its metabolisms provide inspirational models for the design of biomimetic and bioefficient active ingredients.

Our ultimate goal is to offer consumers visible benefits that last.

Delicious Textures That Deliver Exquisit Skin Feel

Functional ingredients should deliver much more than texture, skin feel or product performance—in new-generation cosmetics, they are expected to be fully part of the active system of the formulae.

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics focuses on the development of active and biocompatible functional solutions. Butter, mousse, gel cream, lotion, spray… Our natural functional ingredients offer formulating chemists an extraordinary palette of exquisite feels and textures—a unique signature for your brand.

Phospholipids are essential components of all cellular membranes.

The amphiphilic nature of phospholipids allows them to act as co-emulsifiers both in O/W and W/O systems and gives them an enhanced capacity to form liposomes; they are also widely used as dispersing and wetting agents.

Thanks to the ability of phospholipids to self-organize in bilayers, phospholipid-based emulsifying systems allow the formation of lamellar structures. The superposition of these biomimetic layers are very similar to the structure of the skin. Products formulated with phospholipids will thus have a high skin affinity, compatibility and tolerance.

Phospholipids give a characteristic touch to emulsions: soft and velvety, non greasy emulsion and cool. Their film-forming property reduces the transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and increases the hydration of the stratum corneum.

The Most Effective Encapsulation Solution

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics is the world's leading reference for phospholipids—the choice ingredients for the design of the most effective and tolerated encapsulation solutions

We allow the production of biomimetic nanovectors to increase the efficacy of both lipo- and hydro-soluble active ingredients.

Different types can be developed to fit the activity and formulation requirements.

Inspiring Ingredients : a blooming portfolio of new materials for pure innovation bliss

Southern Cross Botanicals has unlocked the vast potential of Australian mega-biodiversity in many different forms: unique superfruit extracts, original complexes, plant oils brimming with antioxidants and essential fatty acids, rare and precious essential oils, etc.

The company uses a wide variety of extraction processes to obtain the most potent elements of each plant and meet strict formulation specifications. In addition to its standard offer, the company provides customized trials and product development services.

Our SERVICES

Our broad offering is complemented by a wide range of scientific, technical, marketing, formulation, and regulatory support services.

Technical Wizards

Through our R&D and Formulation Labs, we unlock the full potential of each ingredient and design formulations adapted to your region, with our unique sophisticated signature – while fully supporting your development team:

Assisted formulation problem solving from lab to pilot scale
Product ideation anticipating trends and consumer needs for new products launch.

Ingredient and Formulation custom-made solutions to fit your exclusive needs.

Out-of-the-box Marketing

With regional footprint and trends
outlook agility, our experts blend the knowledge and the creativity to help you with amazing storytelling and conceptualization. Be inspired by our vast portfolio of marketing tools:

Regional category snapshots
Idea and Sensory Books
State of the art product and concept dossier
Marketing & Formulation Concepts… Ask us!

Continuing Education

We give you support at every stage of product development and beyond. Be on trend with the market and keep up with our novelties as we launch new ingredients and present new formulation technologies through training seminars and workshops. Make sure you attend our events:

Webinars with customized topics and ingredients to your region and speaking your language
Lab on the Road with our team of formulators travelling the world
Lab sessions in shows and events
LMC Academy as our training program to keep you ahead of the game.

Innovative by Nature

Through our innovation platforms, we offer high-end active and functional ingredients in cosmetic science

A specialized knowledge in the field of peptides

Our designed biomimetic peptides are able to take over failing skin functions and fight secondary effects of aggressions by restoring skin tissues’ physiological functions.

These peptides also compensate for disorders related to aging and aggressions through their regenerative capacities, restoring skin homeostasis.

Our research center in Toulouse, France, has cutting-edge technological equipment to conduct a wide range of tests for the demonstration of peptide efficacy and activity. Moreover, our scientific team has the unique expertise to provide rigorous quality control and develop biomimetic peptides or molecules with very high and optimal efficacy. We have a peptide library of over 700 biomimetic molecules available for future development.

Through a topical application, our biocompatible peptides have a perfectly targeted action on various skin components with no systemic effect.

All of our biomimetic peptides offer:

high performance level;
guaranteed stability;
outstanding purity level.

Natural active ingredients

Our natural active ingredients are designed to maintain the body’s natural reactions, strengthen its defenses against environmental aggressions, delay the signs of aging, and address other contemporary cosmetic challenges. We source our ingredient around the world from the Australian biodiversity to the Canadian Boreal Forest.

A pioneer in the phospholipids expertise

Hundreds of billions of cells compose the human body and all living organisms. These cells are surrounded by an external wall—the membrane—mainly made up of essential lipids forming bilayer structures. The optimal activity of our cells is regulated by the membrane fluidity and permeability controlling exchange and metabolic processes with the environment.

These essential lipids are predominantly polar lipids: Phospholipids and Glycolipids.

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics has developed a wide range of phospholipids and glycolipids extracted from seed oil or other natural sources with specific properties to formulate innovative cosmetics and personal care products.

Phospholipids and glycolipids are surfactants which nature has developed for the creation of cell membranes and as such have technological properties together with physiological activity. They are able to stabilise creams and lotions without irritating surfactants.

The unique affinity of membrane lipids for the skin enhances the bioavailability of other active ingredients and enables their controlled release to skin cells. They are hydrating, restructuring, film forming, soothing and lubricating ingredients. phospholipids and glycolipids create a very rich skin feel in cosmetics.

Membrane lipids are available in a wide variety of sources, purity levels and physical forms and offer different properties for very specific applications.

Nature has taken advantage of the superior functionality of membrane lipds in our cells. Why not follow the example and develop skin friendly products with nature's own choice and Lucas Meyer Cosmetics products?

Colorless Carotenoids

Colorless carotenoids, are natural carotenoids produced and extracted from carotenogenic algae and plants offering optimal protection against oxidative stress.

IBR-CLC® and IBR-TCLC are colorless carotenoids which are oil based phytoene
and phytofluene prepared from marine algae and tomatos to beautify and invigorate the skin.

PhytoflORAL®, a natural dietary ingredient for Beauty from Within comprising phytoene and phytofluene, the colorless carotenoids- skin beautifying effects that enhance the skin from within.

Patented technology refined from Quinoa

Patented technology refined from Quinoa grains to stabilize emulsions (pickering), enhance skin feel, and provide novel textures.

Delivery Systems

We are the world’s leading reference for phospholipids and lecithins.

The prime choice ingredients for the design of the most effective delivery systems. Our multi-functional delivery systems enhance skin penetration, protect the active against interactions with other ingredients, provide long-lasting release, facilitate formulation of challenging ingredients and allow a better targeted action.

We continuously explore and perfect new encapsulation architectures in order to provide you with solutions precisely tailored to your needs.

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