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Leveraging AI discovery technology and our expert team of scientists we create product solutions to fit our clients needs. For us, innovation means that we are staying ahead of market trends and providing our clients with solutions that enable them to move more quickly, efficiently, and ultimately be more competitive. In this fast-pace environment you need an innovation partner you can trust.

Collaboration

Platform Cell Factory

We are developing cell factories for producing sustainable cosmetics and biopharmaceuticals ingredients that are eco-friendly and biodegradable. Surfactants, lipids and lipopolypeptides that are produced on our platform have benefits for healthy skin. They are used as cleansers, moisturisers, and antibacterial in skincare product formulations.

Our ingredient technologies

Our four proprietary cosmetic actives, MITOTECH™, PHYTO PROTECT™, HEXIS CLEANTECH™ and HEXIS REPAIR™, now have their own pages with full evidence and formulation detail.

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CLIENT

Leading fortune 500 skincare brand

CHALLENGE
Its next product range needed new ingredients and a formulation strategy to go with them, evidenced well enough to support a national launch.

PROGRAMME
Discovery Sprint, followed by a Validation Programme.

EVIDENCE
Dozens of novel ingredient combinations identified using our in silico discovery platform, HexisPro.X, then tested and validated in complex assays.

OUTCOME
New scientific data ready to carry sales, marketing and claim substantiation into launch.

CLIENT

High value
client

CHALLENGE
Replace ingredients with sustainable, 'green' alternatives without losing compatibility with formulations already on shelf.

PROGRAMME
Discovery Sprint, followed by a Validation Programme.

EVIDENCE
Over 30,000 materials screened using our HexisPro.X platform, narrowed to the 5 lead formulations tested and validated in bioassays.

OUTCOME
A performance matched green reformulation, and a new basis for patent applications.

CLIENT

Aspirational brand developer

CHALLENGE
Establish whether a natural, plant based ingredient was safe and had a genuine therapeutic benefit worth building a product around.

PROGRAMME
Validation Programme.

EVIDENCE
Critical active components identified and their biological activity mapped using our in silico platform, HexisPro.X.

OUTCOME
New claims and benefits the brand can put behind the product, with a sound evidential basis for clinical trials.

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