6 | LUXlife Magazine - Global Excellence Awards 2022 novel extremophiles, one of which was developed into star anti-aging ingredient, Bacillus Lysate. Thus, Delavie Sciences was born with the goal of tackling common skin concerns, particularly aging, with an unmatched level of expertise. The team develops the technology needed internally from their own collection of novel biology that has been collected from around the world, including the space station, 5,000 feet below the surface of the earth, abandoned gold mines, oceans, landfills, and compost heaps. Thesenovel organisms canbe leveraged to create truly skin-transforming ingredients. Delavie’s latest product, Aeonia age defying serum, is the first line that features the patented Bacillus Lysate. Having been exposed to the extreme conditions of space for 18 months, Delavie scientists found that the organism had developed age-defying and UV protection properties. Research and trials concluded that Bacillus Lysate enables improvements to the skin’s moisture and pigmentation, and reduces radicals and stimulation of Sirt1 activity, a gene that regulates aging. Kyle Landry tells us, “After it was brought back down to earth, we incorporated in the serum. We’re planning to release an eye lotion, eye repair, and then a facial moisturiser. We may also develop a sunscreen, which we hope will be released by the beginning of 2024.” “Innovation is our work,” he enthuses. “We’re not buying ingredients that everyone else can buy. We’re making the ingredients and then making the product around those ingredients. So, we innovate every day. And the goal is to make products that no one can get anywhere else.” Delavie Sciences has a team of hardcore scientists using every type of science you can imagine, from genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, molecular biology, protein chemistry, microbiology, emulsion, and chemistry, to name a few. Kyle himself has a PhD in food science, having done a postdoc at Harvard Medical School in Genetics and Longevity. He is also a facultymember at Boston University in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He explains, “I’m in deep with the science. Much more so than you would expect for a cosmetic company. We can leverage all of that experience to innovate in the space. So, we look at things (or in areas) that cosmetic companies don’t normally look at. We look at microbiology, we look at fungi, we look at genetics. We have the tools to innovate. We go deeper than just the bacteria on your skin. We’re looking at the mechanisms. We’re looking at the molecular impact, and really how to change that.” Indeed, the skincare industry is one with a lot of noise, so the focus, and the challenge, is standing out in that space. Kyle says, “The technology is pretty universal. That’s where we’re different. And the challenge is getting people to realise that we’re not just another white labelled product. We’re making novel products no one else can get. So, it is a challenge, but we’ve seen a lot of momentum.” Kyle and the team have found that skincare in the US is addressed very much at a superficial level, but Delavie Sciences’ products work at a cellular molecular level in order to really do the job. Kyle states, “It’s promoting the rejuvenation of cells and making the skin appear more youthful.” “I’ve always liked to push boundaries and break them. I enjoy disrupting static industry sectors. Our first ingredient at Delavie came from experiments that took place on the International Space Station. Now, we have a plethora of novel ingredients from unique places.” -Kyle Landry, Delavie Sciences President
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