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Hidden Hydroponics: How Cosmetics Brands Quietly Grow Ingredients · Hydroponics Daily

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  Hello there, and welcome back to
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  Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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  I'm your host, Dada Russell-Sharp, the founder of Utrema Limited.
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  That's Latin for wasabi, and we manufacture hydroponic fertilizers,
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  novel biostimulants, and organic biopesticides.
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  And today, I've been doing some research on companies that use hydroponics in
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  their production system, but don't make a big deal of it,
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  and for non-food companies. So they use them in their manufacturing.
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  And there's a really interesting, what I pulled out of the data is really interesting.
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  So what I found is that loads of these companies are based in France,
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  which you don't normally think of when it comes to hydroponics.
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  And they're all, a lot of them are cosmetics groups.
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  So Ule, they produce their
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  vertical eco farm for the production of coleus tulsi
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  and centella and that's specifically for
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  cosmetics and then the l'oreal group the
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  skincare group they grow loads of calendula in herbal
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  extract toner that goes into and so
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  they they have they produce that in in
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  america in warwick in new york not warwick
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  with the castle so calendula and then the company capsum
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  in france high-end cosmetics they have
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  a farm a lab farm in marseilles that
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  they've built with ebb and flow hydroponics for herbal medicinal
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  herbs and cosmetic ingredients
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  then marlow hydroponic skincare is a u.s company they have positioned themselves
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  as the hydroponic skincare company and it's built around clean hydroponic extracts
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  that's their usp and so that's really interesting i've never heard of them but
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  they're a company dedicated to hydroponic skin care.
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  Plant Advanced Technologies in France, they make cosmetic actives using aeroponics,
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  so meadowsweet roots, and so that's interesting.
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  Their business is focused on cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and flour and chemicals, not edible crops.
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  And then again in France, Botanics with an X on the end, their vertical farming
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  cosmetic ingredients again so they don't say what they're growing but that's
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  interesting and then south korea biospectrum which i think i've heard of,
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  They are a supplier of herbal cosmetic ingredients used in commercial hydroponic towers.
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  And so cosmetics is massive hydroponics. Who knew?
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  And again, those companies like Ulay, they use hydroponics for fragrances.
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  So perfumes, again, this is what we think of when we think of France, perfumes.
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  And the luxury fragrance maker
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  therminic have partnered with french vertical
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  farm startup jungle to source vertically
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  farmed flowers for perfume ingredients so around 20
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  percent of the company's perfumes are planned to come from vertical farms so
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  that's really interesting and then obviously when we're thinking about non-food
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  crops we see ornamentals come into that but they're still horticulture so are
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  you thinking about kenyan roses and they are grown hydroponically.
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  So that's really interesting. I'm sure there are more companies out there for
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  more obscure niche uses that are using hydroponics, but they're not making a big deal of it.
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  It's probably intellectual property that they're keeping as know-how.
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  But if you know of any, then please do let me know because I'd love to hear about it.
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  or you can't work out how to spell it just google
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  wasabi because it is the genus name for wasabi
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  scientific name and utreema.co.uk we
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  make a range of fertilizers biostimulants and
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  organic biopesticides that are unlike you'll
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  find from any other company's portfolio we don't sell to other companies in
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  hydroponics so if it's on our website it's completely unique and it's made by
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  us and only supplied by us so it's definitely worth checking it out not just
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  because it's a plug all right thank you very much for listening and until tomorrow goodbye.