Medicinal Plants | ~4 min read In and out products to enhance skin beauty and longevity The wall between cosmetics and nutrition is dissolving For decades, the skincare industry and the supplement industry operated as separate worlds. They served the same consumer, often with the same botanical species, but through entirely different supply chains, regulatory frameworks, and product development cultures. A cosmetics formulator sourcing Centella asiatica extract for a serum

The supply chain that nobody questioned For decades, the global botanical ingredients industry operated on a straightforward model: source raw plant material from tropical and subtropical regions where labour is inexpensive and biodiversity is abundant, process it through a chain of intermediaries, and deliver it to European manufacturers for formulation. The primary selection criteria were price and availability. The system worked well enough when nobody looked too closely a