La Fabrique Végétale

ABOUT

Your leading-edge partner in innovation

La Fabrique Végétale is CIR-certified

The fragrance and cosmetics industries are now facing new environmental and societal challenges that are pushing them to reinvent how and what they produce. To accomplish these transitions, they must break ties with the ingredients and processes of the past.

We firmly believe that the ingredients and processes of the future are already within reach. Our ability to foresee developing trends gives us the freedom to experiment with increasingly responsible and sustainable chemistry.

La Fabrique Végétale provides the cosmetics and fragrance industries with innovative botanical solutions while helping companies develop and source original and eco-friendly raw materials.

THE FOUNDERS

Synergistic expertise, shared values,
keen instinct, and deep commitment.

Caroline ROUSSEAU

Chemical engineer, expert in formulating natural ingredients.
More than 15 years’ experience in developing cosmetic products.
Areas of expertise: formulation, finished products.

Antoine PICCIRILLI

PhD in green chemistry, expert in ingredient development (60 patents).
More than 25 years’ experience in the cosmetics industry.
Areas of expertise: green chemistry, ingredients.

Lionel BERNARD

Expert in bioprospecting and establishing botanical supply chains.
More than 20 years’ experience in the cosmetics industry.
Areas of expertise: sourcing, supply chains.

A network of recognized industrial and academic partners
Green chemistry – Eco-extraction – Phytochemistry – Regulatory experts – LCA – Efficacy testing

THE INGREDIENT AS DEFINED BY LA FABRIQUE VÉGÉTALE

With the ingredient as our guide, we channel all our energy and expertise into pursuing safe, sustainable, realistic innovation

Our expertise

Providing substitutes for petroleum-sourced raw materials
Reducing a formula’s environmental impact by using ingredients born of the circular economy
Developing alternatives to ingredients that impact biodiversity

Our guarantees

Freedom to operate (FTO)
Traceability and volume control
Regulatory compliance, environmental impact assessment
Objectivized functionality and sensoriality
Market-aligned cost-in-use

We are intricately involved in every phase of ingredient development to deliver turnkey innovation

Selecting raw materials and establishing traced and secure supply chains: identifying and selecting the manufacturer, evaluating its potential and supply chain, compliance with CSR criteria and the Nagoya Protocol.

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Developing production processes from the laboratory to the industrial pilot in compliance with green chemistry and eco-extraction criteria.

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Formulating in an in-house laboratory, performing stability studies and demonstrating functional and sensory properties in the realms of personal health and beauty, makeup, and fragrances.

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Creating the technical and regulatory dossier (specifications, formulation performance, safety/efficacy tests). Innovation protection: trademarking and patent registration.

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OUR ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE 2021

Substituting for field-crop alcohols in perfumery, made-in-France

  • Developing an extra-neutral grape alcohol from winemaking byproducts for a leading fragrance company.
  • Verifying olfactory properties and environmental performance using sensory studies and Life Cycle Analysis.
  • Fully traced, 100%-French supply chain, 600,000 liters of alcohol distributed since 2023.

Supply chain producing made-in-France, solvent-free grapeseed oil

  • Establishing a fully traced and secure supply chain.
  • Refined grapeseed oil - guaranteed unadulterated.
  • Custom production: conventional or certified-organic.

Substituting for a palm-sourced emollient

  • Developing an MCT substitute for an ingredient supplier (patent pending).
  • Upcycled emollient with solvent and sensory properties equal to those of MCTs.
  • Lower cost in use than MCTs.

Studying cranberry byproducts for use in cosmetics

  • Conducting formulation and stability studies of cranberry byproducts for the Canadian company Fruit d’Or: powdered coloring, exfoliating powders, and vegetable oil.
  • Development of starting formula as proof of concept.
  • Drafting the technical dossier for each ingredient.

Developing an innovative biopolymer from shea butter

  • Developing an upcycled biopolymer from a shea butter fractionation byproduct (2 patents filed).
  • Film-forming and hydrophobic biopolymer.
  • Substitute for PFAS in long-wear makeup formulas, super-dispersant for pigments.
  • Biopolymer to replace beeswax.

Developing a natural emollient to substitute for mineral oils and silicones

  • Developing Sensol® 100 for the Greentech company.
  • Upcycled emollient obtained from a byproduct of avocado oils refining (patent pending).
  • Emollient with silicone-like sensory properties to replace mineral and silicone oils (skincare, haircare, makeup).

CONTACTS

Lionel BERNARD

Business Development – Sourcing
Registered Offices – 9 rue Constantine – 69001 Lyon FR Tel. +33 (0)6 10 85 91 48
lbernard@lafabriquevegetale.eu

Antoine PICCIRILLI

Science & Innovation Director
18 Chemin de Tison – 86000 Poitiers FR
Tel. +33 (0)6 85 67 85 44
apiccirilli@lafabriquevegetale.eu

Caroline ROUSSEAU

Applied Research & Formulation
Tel. +212 6 64 29 76 05
crousseau.lafabriquevegetale@gmail.com