CELLACTIVE® by RAHN won the Runner-up prize in the category “Sustainable Ingredient” of the Sustainable Beauty Awards for Cosmetics and Raw Materials 2019.
About the Award
During the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit in Paris, the Sustainable Beauty Awards were awarded by the ecovia Intelligence. The Sustainable Ingredient award, ones of 5 categories, is given to a cosmetic ingredient that makes a sustainable difference in terms of environmental and / or social impact. The ingredient could have a lower environmental impact by cultivation / harvesting method, synthesis or application. Such materials can be novel ingredients, produced from renewable feedstock, or from a new extraction / processing method.
About CELACTIVE®
CELLACTIVE® is the first carbon-neutral cosmetic active. Its product life cycle was monitored and produced CO2 was calculated with the help of the cradle-to-gate approach. To neutralise unavoidable CO2-emissions, RAHN supports two forest conservation projects in Switzerland and Papua New Guinea, which are part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
CELLACTIVE® contains two eco-friendly ingredients, the microalga
C. vulgaris and the white lupin, which consume CO2 and whose
cultivation require low energy and nutrition. The algae are cultivated in an environmentally friendly closed photobioreactor. White lupin can even fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. Both ingredients are well-known superfoods and sources of valuable nutritional building blocks (amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates).
CELLACTIVE® is eco-friendly and multifunctional, meaning the same ingredient can be used in skin and hair care applications. It promotes the skin‘s integrity and firmness, encourages the longevity of hair follicles and improves hair quality parameters (anti-static effect, structure).
Protection for skin
•Increases viability of keratinocytes (in-vitro study) • Improves cell cohesion (in-vitro study) • Promotes ECM integrity (in-vitro study) • Provides rapid effects with regard to skin elasticity and firmness (in-vivo study)
Improvement for hair follicle and hair shaft
• Serves as a serum for keratinocytes activity (in-vitro study) • Improves cell cohesion (in-vitro study) • Promotes ECM integrity (in-vitro study) • Serves as a serum for hair follicles (ex-vivo study) • Improves quality of damaged hair (ex-vivo study)