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About Forest Skin Lab
Forest Skin Lab was established in 2019. We offer products lovingly and meticulously created to transform your relationship with your skin and health, and nature.
The latest European skin care concept, high-quality production of pure natural ingredients in Australia, the use of a large number of herbal extracts with mature and effective plant formulas, gentle and non-irritating, safe and effective! Improve our aging or injured skin from the cellular level, so as to make the skin Better production of collagen and other substances that you need. From the inside out to achieve the natural beauty effect, cell renewal, skin renewal, regaining health and youth.
The ForestSkinLab sources the raw ingredients from reputable raw ingredient suppliers that supply to the cosmetic industry. We only use high-quality ingredients with many of our ingredients being pharmaceutical grade. We provide a hand-picked selection of the most advanced, cult skin, health, and natural products from around Australia & the world.
Working with internationally recognized experts in the field of research & development of the skincare and pharmacy industry - EXPANSCIENCE LABORTORIES, the ForestSkinLab only uses ingredients and formulations which have been proven repeatedly in independent clinical trials. Throughout the R&D process, our laboratory team will stay focused on the efficacy, safety, stability, and longevity of the products. Our cutting-edge onsite laboratory and experienced chemists empower us to conduct comprehensive and innovative skincare & lifestyle product research.
EXPANSCIENCE LABORTORIES is a pharmaceutical and dermo-cosmetics laboratory that has been developing its expertise in skincare and in treating osteoarthritis for 70 years.
Innovations, major launches, breaking onto new markets… Learn more about our history – which is intertwined with the history of Piasclédine 300 and Mustela, our two leading brands in France which are also renowned throughout the world.
EXPANSCIENCE LABORTORIES attach a great deal of importance to research and innovation.
EXPANSCIENCE LABORTORIES’s Centre for Innovation Research and Development in Épernon (Eure-et-Loir) south of Paris is where nearly 50 specialist chemists, pharmacists, doctors, biologists and engineers work together on developing original formulas and new active ingredients.
EXPANSCIENCE LABORTORIES have renowned expertise in the cutaneous barrier and in the connective tissue development mechanism. Laboratoires Expanscience also has recognised expertise in plant extraction processes.
Numerous partnerships with renowned teams, together with research collaborations with institutions in France (INSERM, CNRS, hospitals, etc.) and at international level serve as opportunities for further developing our knowledge of the specific features of skin in pregnant women and children, of the inflammatory phase in acne and of metabolic dysfunctions in cartilage that can lead to osteoarthritis.
Expanscience's knowledge, creativity and innovation are showcased by international publications and patents. To date, 1,037 patent applications have been filed by throughout the world*.
THE MOST STRINGENT
OF REQUIREMENTS
Since most of the products are intended for use by sensitive consumer targets (pregnant women, children, people with delicate skin), the products EXPANSCIENCE LABORTORIES designs are subject to extremely rigourous requirements.
A Safety, Quality, Efficacy division is tasked with ensuring that the raw materials used are of high quality (active ingredients or excipients) and guarantees the compliance of the finished products with regulations, as well as introducing the company's own criteria.
Safety: extremely high standards
A complete battery of tests and checks are carried out during development, during the design phase and then once the products have gone on sale.
Quality: strict specifications
Right from when the raw materials are selected through to the manufacturing phases and the marketing of the finished product, traceability and compliance with requirements are essential.
Efficacy: a genuine requirement
Various observational, biometrological and clinical tests are carried out in order to assess products' efficacy.
SKIN HEALTH EXPERTISE
SKIN PHYSIOLOGY
Laboratoires Expanscience‘s dermo-cosmetics researchers are particularly focused on investigating the skin's barrier function and inflammatory phenomena.
PLANT EXPERTISE
Laboratoires Expanscience’s cosmetics Research and Development centre has acquired specialist expertise in plant technologies and molecular distillation, an environmentally-friendly process for separating and concentrating the noble elements of oil.
WELL-ESTABLISHED EXPERTISE
Laboratoires Expanscience have been developing innovative, safe and effective plant-based active cosmetic ingredients for more than 40 years.
Using various plant-based raw materials – such as seeds, leaves and fruit – our researchers identify, extract, purify and then analyse the active ingredients, without damaging biodiversity.
The scientific application of these active ingredients has led to the development of high-quality products that are natural, high-tolerance and clinically effective.
EXPANSCIENCE LABORTORIES’s expertise in lipid chemistry and molecular distillation has helped establish us as the world's leading manufacturer of avocado and soya unsaponifiables. These active ingredients are used in the manufacture of Piasclédine 300, a medicine that is used to treat the symptoms of osteoarthritis the efficacy of which is recognised throughout the world. It is also France’s* leading slow-acting anti-arthritics medicine.
*Source: GERS data on turnover, rolling annual total as of January 2021
AN AREA OF SOUND
EXPERTISE
Since Laboratoires Expanscience was founded, their aim has been to better understand the physiology of certain tissues, such as skin and cartilage.
Laboratoires Expanscience have been working in three main areas of research in particular:
the skin's barrier function and how it develops over time or when the skin is damaged in certain ways,
investigations into the connective tissue matrix which are involved in the remodelling and healing processes；
