Sustainable marine actives from biotechnology

Sustaining and protecting marine biodiversity therefore involves improving the awareness of all the industrial and economic players. Codif Recherche et Nature is committed to developing leading-edge biotechnological tools in order to ensure regular, equitable and high-quality provisioning of marine plant raw materials. The company therefore continues to benefit from the remarkable and innovating cosmetic properties of the marine flora, without depleting natural resources.

 “Biological diversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.”

Article 2 of the Convention on biological diversity, 1992 According to an Ipsos survey, only 12% of the Top 100 cosmetic brands take biodiversity into account in their sourcing.1 However, at least a third of the technologies used by these companies depend directly or indirectly on the living world.2 In 2010, biodiversity year, it has to be admitted that much still has to be done to protect biodiversity. In this context, a rapid expansion of biotechnologies seems to be the economically equitable solution between man and nature. Aware of these problems, Codif developed an algal culture laboratory. This laboratory thereby draws the minimum natural resources required to seed cultures in the bioreactor and avoids any excessive harvesting as this would not be perennial for a species or for the ecosystem harbouring it overall. There are three different types of culture: culture of microalgae and macroalgae in a photobioreactor and culture of macroalgae in the open sea illustrate our desire to develop cosmetics through the sustained and equitable use of marine biodiversity.