Biotech Skincare is the skincare trend of 2023 you need to know.

Clean beauty is projected to rake in about $ 22 billion in 2024 Globally, but is the emerging trend of Biotech Skincare changing how we look at ‘natural’ skincare? 

Biotech skincare is set to be a big trend in 2023 and here’s why. 

In this article, you are going to learn what bio-tech skincare is. Why it’s gaining so much of a following and how biotech skincare can benefit your at-home skincare routine.

After discovering the most important highlight of this important 2023 trend you will be able to easily identify what to look for when you’re ready to build them into your next skincare edit. 

This post is all about biotech skincare, trending in 2023.

Clean beauty has been on the upward trend for the last 10+ years.

Birthed from the growing consumer education on the importance of skin ingredients and their impact on our overall health, clean and natural skincare captured a large share of the skincare market to meet the demands of a more savvy skincare consumer.

So What exactly is biotech skincare? 

Biotech skincare refers to the use of lab-derived ingredients geared for potency and efficacy without the harmful environmental effects some natural harvesting practices can cause. 

Before clean beauty became a market-leading trend, there was very little knowledge or understanding about how ingredients for skincare products were sourced, supplied, and regulated when it came to product development. 

The skin and beauty industries still tend to be one of the least regulated industries in the U.S. And while this is changing, much of the onus in transparency and standards upheld when it comes to the quality control of product formulations, is still very much in the hands of the brands and labs that supply them. 

Why is bio-tech skincare set to be such a trend in 2023?

The belief is that, with the more savvy consumer where not only ingredients matter, a brand’s environmental impact matters.

With the discovery of natural ingredients in a more globally connected world. You now have so much access to rare geographically specific ingredients. 

The cost to the environment is however a serious concern.

Harvesting of plant matter for ‘naturally derived’ ingredients can carry environmental impacts ranging from CO2 emissions, industrial pollution from processes, and by-product waste. Not to mention the depletion of essential plants that contribute to the general biodiversity of the planet. MindBodyGreen sites a few examples in their article here.

Biotech skincare offers access to naturally derived source material with significantly less industrial by-product pollution and with the added benefit of scientific advancements used to target and enhance the potency of each ingredient. 

Lab technicians, chemists, and formulators can target the tiniest compounds and molecular chains a plant ingredient may have and isolate it. These lab-led advancements in skincare tech can then build on their research and develop new formulations to result in super potent products with a myriad of ingredients working in synergy with one another. 

You get natural ingredients without sacrificing efficacy or your environmental values

Oftentimes, even though natural doesn’t mean ineffective, ingredient penetration is a more complicated game. 

Elements like the PH of your skin, and the PH of the ingredient applied impact the penetration depth of skincare.

Photosensitivity and self-stability of natural ingredients make them more difficult to preserve and avoid bacteria growth after exposure to air. 

Biotech skincare provides lab-controlled environments to avoid contamination, and solubles for mixing and stabilizing unstable natural ingredients (hi vitamin c) all while getting you the highest potency so you get the best return on your investment. 

When is it best to consider opting into Biotech?

If you’re in your 20s or early 30s you still are in the decade of life where your skin is enjoying its youthful era. 

You’re major concerns outside of hormonal breakouts or safe sun play will be to get your antioxidants in, in order to ward off environmental stressors.