Cosmetics giant Loreal makes artificial human skins for cosmetics industry to curb animal testing on products

Briefing

Cosmetics giant Loreal makes artificial human skins for cosmetics industry to curb animal testing on products

May 31, 2017

Briefing

  • Artificial Skin – Cosmetics giant Loreal making artificial skin for product testing, called EpiSkin, as alternative to using animals, sold to other cosmetics, pharmaceutical, chemical, and household products manufacturers
  • Mass Production – Loreal Predictive Evaluation Center in Lyon, France produces more than 100,000 human skin tissue samples per year, each 0.5 square centimeters in size
  • Ongoing Partnership – Partnering with biotech company Organovo to bioprint human tissues using 3D printing technology
  • Competition – Biotechnology firm MatTek produces two adult’s worth of human skins every week at facilities in Massachusetts and Slovakia, and aims to connect artificial skin to other organs-on-a-chip

Accelerator

Sector

Consumer Non-Durables

Organization

L'oreal SA

Source

Original Publication Date

May 28, 2017

Leave a comment