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AMIPIE

Our Complete Services Offer
to Serve Your Innovation

AMIPIE
  • Lead your own Research & Development projects alongside our experts
  • Create exclusive and innovative ingredients or finished products
  • Take advantage of the latest technological advances

Leavitt, Harold J.You are seeking a targeted and personalised innovation that complies with the various regulations and will help you conquer new market segments. We have the answer: AMIPIE, which enables you to outsource your research and development projects with complete confidence. We are committed to delivering results to you within the promised turnaround times, in a clear contractual context, with the possibility of research grants or tax breaks, with a guaranteed exclusivity and a defined industrial price.

AMIPIE is a services offer you can use by slices according to your needs! It is particularly flexible and allows a project to begin with research on a plant or at a later level, with the formulation of an ingredient, or even the manufacture of the marketed product, from the seed to the final product (ingredient or finished product). Thus, alongside our specialists, you will fine-tune your own 'Project of Innovative Exclusivity', or 'PIE'.

The Different Slices of AMIPIE



Marketing

1Designing and marketing

From the very beginning of your project, we can help you to develop your brand,
to create your products and to conceive a communication adapted:

  • Identity, image and value
  • Marketing positioning and target
  • Choice of the active ingredients, names, packagings...

Cost: Ask for an estimate

Extract

2Plant extract

Research of the plant

  • Establish the precise botanical identification (valid name in Latin)
  • Implement its culture, if a proven supply source does not exist, in an ethical and eco-responsible way

Regulatory File

  • Ensure that the extract will comply with various regulations (REACH, CITES, etc.) and possibly with bio labels (Ecocert, Natrue, Cosmos, etc.) or others, according to project specifications
  • Ensure that the extract will be manufactured according to the rules for GMPs in cosmetics (ISO 22716) in a factory that complies with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

Technical File

  • Bibliographical research on the plant’s composition, traditional uses, possible toxicity, etc.
  • Creation of specification sheets, safety data sheets, raw materials documents
  • Safety tests if necessary

Development of the Extraction Technique

  • Laboratory assays, then fabrication of an industrial pilot

Cost: 1,500 to 5,000€ (depending on the file)

Extract

3Efficacy tests on the extract

Based on your project and the final application of your products, you can decide to test your extract in order to verify its activity. This involves both in vitro and ex vivo objectivation tests, as well clinical trials… We offer you our guaranteed follow-up of these tests with the cooperation of selected partners.

Cost: Ask for an estimate

Formulation

4Cosmetic formulation

Service Details

  • Development of the formula
  • Raw materials, with no requirement to use ours
  • Supply of samples
  • Tests: stability, compatibility and safety
  • Professional certification
  • Administrative aspects (registering with INCI and writing all documents)
  • Industrial scale-up

This formula can then be manufactured at our production site in Fontenay-sur-Eure or in the factory of your choice.

Cost: 3,500€

Ami-feels
Ami-feelsA faster alternative
for tailor-made formulas

You want to develop your own personalised range of cosmetic finished products, while monitoring your investment, and you want to design natural products (with no parabens, no silicones, etc.) to meet the growing market demand. We offer to develop your products from our Ami-feels: a fast and cost-efficient solution as they are already developed textures, ready to be customised according to your claims with our eco-responsible ingredients.

More information!

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Tests

5Efficacy tests on the finished product

Our technical team advises you according to your desired claims and targeted markets, and the relevance of proceeding with additional tests: clinical, ex vivo or in vitro, ocular for products in contact with the eyes, hypoallergenic, moisturising effect, anti-ageing, removal of dark circles under the eyes, slimming... We work alongside you in this process, thanks to our network of selected laboratories in the Cosmetic Valley.

Cost: Ask for an estimate

Manufacturing

6Manufacturing

We take care of the manufacturing, starting with the purchase of raw materials all the way through the product in bulk, while conducting all necessary follow-up and handling logistics thanks to our integrated software programs.

Cost: Ask for an estimate

Packaging

7Packaging

This is the final stage before marketing the product! We can help you choose the type of packaging and write the labels, and then we can fill. Our integrated management software enables full traceability of all operations, including all control phases.

Cost: Ask for an estimate

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News

  • 10/04/12 Come and meet us at In-cosmetics (booth A19) for the launch of our two new ingredients! Read more
  • 28/10/11 New! Lipolami® Milk Thistle, to formulate silky, smooth textures with no silicones Read more
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