Development of Plant-Based Antimicrobials for Use In Cosmetics and Personal Care Products.

消费品的清洁标签趋势继续增长。消费者不仅愿意花更多的钱购买清洁标签的产品，他们也对这些产品有更多的期望，比如健康效益、可持续生产和透明的采购。mirexus生物技术公司（MBI）是一家领先的生物纳米材料公司，总部位于安大略省圭尔夫。MBIseeks将在其植物衍生化妆品和个人护理成分系列中添加新的功能性产品。新的植物衍生产品将用于抗菌治疗，目标是取代传统的合成防腐剂。MBI建议与兰姆顿学院合作，使用可持续的提取方法从丰富的安大略省植物原料中分离抗菌植物化学物质，通过封装提高抗菌效果，并评估植物化学物质和封装植物化学制剂防止化妆品基础霜微生物污染的能力。MBI将受益于获得将新产品商业化所需的知识，并且由于MBI打算成为该项目的积极合作伙伴，包括培训HQP在化妆品开发中使用的研究技术，兰博顿将受益于在这一不断增长的领域实现增加的能力，从而使我们能够更好地服务于更广泛的个人护理产品和其他相关行业。在此项目中启动的新型抗菌产品的成功开发将直接增加MBI的底线。MBI的大多数客户都在海外，新产品向这些市场的出口增加支持了加拿大的GDP。

The clean-labeling trend in consumer products continues to grow. Not only are consumers willing to pay more for clean-labelled products, they are also expecting more from these products, such as health benefits,sustainable production and transparent sourcingMirexus Biotechnologies Inc. (MBI), is a leading bio-nanomaterials company based in Guelph, Ontario. MBIseeks to add new functional products to its line of plant-derived cosmetic and personal care ingredients. The new plant-derived products will be used as antimicrobial treatments, with a goal of displacing conventionalsynthetic preservatives.MBI proposes in collaboration with Lambton College to use sustainable extraction methods to isolateantimicrobial phytochemicals from abundant Ontario plant feedstocks, to improve antimicrobial efficacythrough encapsulation and to assess the ability of the phytochemicals and encapsulated phytochemicalformulations to prevent microbial contamination of cosmetic base creams.MBI will benefit from receiving the knowledge needed to commercialize new products, and as MBI intends tobe an active partner in this project, including training HQP on research techniques used in cosmeticsdevelopment, Lambton will benefit by achieving an increased capacity in this growing area thereby allowing usto better serve the broader personal care products, and other related, industries. Successful development of new antimicrobial products initiated during this project would directly add to MBI's bottom line. The majority of MBI's customers are overseas, and increased exports of new products to these markets supports Canada's GDP.