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Clean And Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care News: Sensegen, SOLESPHERE, Dial Soap Refills

Henkel’s Dial soap brand launches Concentrated Refills, soap packets that use 95% less plastic compared with a replacement soap bottle. On the ingredient front, biotech Sensegen is targeting the taste, smell and beauty markets with novel ingredients that it says are plant-based and gentler on the planet than agriculturally derived or petroleum-based ingredients. More news in brief.

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Rancho Santa Margarita, California-based biotech Sensegen emerges after 18 months of incubating as Blue California Flavors and Fragrances, training laser sights on taste, smell and beauty. “We’re pioneering 100% plant-based, planet-and-people-positive biotech to create ingredients that are healthier, more pleasurable, more sustainable and more accessible for everyone,” its website says. “We call it the Palette for the Planet.” Sensegen touts the significantly reduced environmental impact associated with partner Conagen’s fermentation and bioconversion processes compared with agriculturally derived and petroleum-based ingredient creation. Also, “they can sidestep wobbles in supply chains caused by poor weather, seasonality, and inconsistent plant harvest quality without resorting to synthetic substitutes,” it says. Sensegen says it already has disrupted the fragrance market with a plant-based musk called Plantarome M, a “highly strategic option for the market with natural animal sources unethical to harvest as well as plant sources too costly for mainstream use.”

The company soon plans to introduce a line of clean, novel and proprietary beauty ingredients as well as cosmetic market favorites with a natural, sustainable polish. In its Smell division, the company’s focus is on “new naturals” for fragranced consumer products

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