Native Extracts and Kagome Australia have unveiled red velvet oil: revolutionizing sustainable skin care with Australia's most ambitious upcycled beauty ingredient.
Native Extracts has partnered with Kagome Australia, one of the largest tomato processors in the Southern Hemisphere, to present Red Velvet Oil: an up-cycled active beauty ingredient, sourced from surplus tomato seed waste.
This "active" oil includes lycopene, phytosterols, and fatty acids, providing benefits to skin care, wellness, and oral care. Kagome Australia is a key player in the circular economy, upcycling 15,000 tonnes of food waste into high-quality functional ingredients for brands leading on sustainability, transparency, and traceability.
Red Velvet Oil, with versatile applications, a unique profile of natural compounds, is set to disrupt responsible ingredient sourcing in the beauty industry and its war on waste.
“This partnership showcases Australia’s most ambitious upcycled ingredient initiative, the compelling deliverables achieved through forging grower and industry collaborations, and the power of upcycling waste into high value ingredients, giving ethical brands new options to meet the demands of the growing conscious consumer culture,” says Lisa Carroll, founder and managing director of Native Extracts.
Caroll adds, "Red Velvet Oil is more than a beauty ingredient; it's a statement of how the reduce, reuse and repurpose sustainability movement and science can come together to create real change and innovation. This signifies the birth of Australia’s upcycled ingredient revolution, at a global scale, and there is more to come."
