This is an interesting article as to how waste food may be taken to extract useful, sustainable elements for use in skin care. Reservatrol from grape waste and starch for rice by products being examples. You can read the full article, here:

Waste food could be the next thing in sustainable cosmetic ingredients

By Simon Pitman+, 26-May-2016

Growing pressure to be more sustainable, combined with advances in extraction technology is leading to a new generation of cosmetic and personal care ingredients that are derived from food waste and side streams:

http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/Product-Categories/Colour-Cosmetics/Waste-food-could-be-the-next-thing-in-sustainable-cosmetic-ingredients

This is also an area that Marks and Spencer have been working on, specifically with grapes.

#sustainable #skincare