Summary

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics is the business unit of the Unipex Group which develops, manufactures and markets innovative ingredients for the cosmetic and personal care industry.

Profile

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics is the business unit of the Unipex Group which develops, manufactures and markets innovative ingredients for the cosmetic and personal care industry. We offer active ingredients, functional ingredients and delivery systems from various origins. Our active cosmetic ingredients are designed to maintain the body’s natural reactions, strengthen its defenses against environmental aggressions, delay the appearance of signs of aging, and address other contemporary cosmetic challenges. Our functional ingredients deliver unique texture, skin feel and optimal product performance. Our broad offering is complemented by a wide range of scientific, technical, marketing, formulation and regulatory support services. The formulation laboratory has been set up to unlock the full potential of each ingredient and assist the manufacturer with the different stages of their product development, from the design of new product concepts to the first production batches.

Ingredients

Active Ingredients - 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.

A number of products are also available in a preservative-free and paraben-free version specially designed to minimize the presence of preservatives in final cosmetic formulas.

Many of our ingredients are Ecocert and Cosmos registered and comply with the new Chinese legislation.

Functional Ingredients - 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.

The ability of phospholipids to self-organize bilayers phospholipid-based emulsifying systems allow the formation of lamellar structures form lamellar structures under specific conditions. The superposition of these layers is biomimetic and 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.

Delivery Systems - 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. Latest innovations both GOLD recipients of 2012 in-cosmetics Innovation Zone’s Best Ingredient Award!

Lucas Meyer Cosmetics latest 2 active ingredients: Progeline™ and Adipofill™. In 2012 with advances in scientific knowledge, we have come to see that it is no longer only about fighting the signs of aging, but also delaying the senescence process. With Progeline™, a biomimetic peptide, we rethink how to address skin aging by modulating progerin a new marker of aging to have maximal results on wrinkles and sagging skin. Complementary to Progeline™, Adipofill™, L-ornithine vectorized in an Ionosome™, stimulates lipogenesis through a never seen before pathway: the activation of H1F-alpha and lipohormesis. The increase of triglycerides into adipocytes leads to a face lipostructure correcting wrinkles and fine lines. Over 60 consumers tested La Spirit Cream containing both actives. They experienced noticeable improvement: their skin was suppler, softer, firmer, visibly smoothed out and signs of fatigue are less visible and an over healthier and younger looking skin.