BioPods: potential to revolutionise the production of natural beauty ingredients
Potential to revolutionise the production of natural ingredients
French-American biotech startup Interstellar Lab started to deploy its biofarming platform, BioPod, which fuses cutting-edge hardware with AI-enabled control and science to create ‘high-precision botanicals’ for use by the cosmetics industry.
The startup is backed by L'Oréal’s Green Sciences Incubator, which aims to support companies that are working towards finding new solutions for the environmental challenges the planet is facing.
We spoke to Interstellar Lab’s CEO Barbara Belvisi, who said the autonomous cocoon is “a terrestrial adaptation of a system originally developed for NASA, operates in a semi-closed circuit, optimising the water cycle and capturing ambient CO2.”
Belvisi said the BioPod will be deployed in the first semester of 2024 and that potentially 10 more could be installed by the end of 2025.
Grasse-based natural and raw materials fragrances and flavours company Robertet was the first company to acquire a BioPod in late September.
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