Formulation

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Opt for Natural and Innovative Formulations

If your goal is to :

    • Create natural formulations without using synthetic ingredients,
    • Replace a specific ingredient to improve the quality of your product,
    • Encapsulate bioactive compounds for enhanced efficacy,
    • Explore new textures and functionalities for your formulations.

    Our expertise guides you in characterizing and improving the properties of your products, through an approach focused on:

    • Fat phase quality: analysis of nature and quality, evaluation of properties and determination of optimal quantities,
    • The use of stabilizers: Selecting the type of stabilizer, adjusting their proportions, and effective application techniques,
    • Manufacturing Process Optimization: Improving manufacturing methods to ensure the quality and functionality of your products.
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    In relation to application constraints

    Sectors concerned:

    • Food/Human and animal nutrition
    • Cosmetics
    • Plant protection and nutrition

    Types of formulas:

    Aqueous or oily emulsions and dispersions, fluid, thick, solid.

    Solutions, quite naturally ...

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    Cosmetics

    Development of innovative cosmetics using agricultural resources such as plant oils and proteins, ensuring quality, safety, and environmental sustainability.

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    Food

    Expertise in formulations that combine health benefits, natural ingredients, and quality, meeting the rigorous requirements of clean label standards.

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    Biocontrol

    Development of biocontrol solutions, offering a sustainable alternative to pesticides.

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    Cosmetics

    Development of innovative cosmetics using agricultural resources such as plant oils and proteins, ensuring quality, safety, and environmental sustainability.

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    Food

    Expertise in formulations that combine health benefits, natural ingredients, and quality, meeting the rigorous requirements of clean label standards.

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    Biocontrol

    Development of biocontrol solutions, offering a sustainable alternative to pesticides.

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    A high-performance team and equipment

    Formulators, manufacturers: boost your projects with our new crystallization equipment!
    With OMVE’s CRA226 pilot crystallizer, ITERG supports you in optimizing your processes, developing new textures, and adapting your formulas to market requirements (plant-based, palm-free, clean label, etc.). Discover our customized solutions to secure and accelerate your innovations.
    👉 Learn more: Crystallization of lipid formulations

    Our research themes

    • Stabilization of emulsions with vegetable powders (Pickering emulsions)
    • Emulsifying and dispersing properties of bio-based polymers
    • Evaluation of the digestibility of nutrients of interest according to their formulation, and consequences on their fate in the body
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    Why trust us?

    Knowledge

    • Pickering emulsion expertise: emulsions stabilized with vegetable powders to create stable, effective formulations.
    • Expertise in ingredient substitution: the ability to substitute ingredients while maintaining the formulation’s functionality.
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    Soft skills

    • Creativity and Innovation:
      development of new Pickering emulsions for innovative formulations,
    • Collaboration and Partnership:
      Ability to work as part of a team and collaborate with other departments or external partners to adapt to the various requirements of the food, cosmetics, and industrial markets.
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    Know-how

    • Mastering the encapsulation of bioactive compounds:
      to ensure the stability and efficacy of bioactive compounds,
    • Characterization of Pickering emulsions:
      expertise in the in-depth analysis of Pickering emulsions to understand and optimize their properties, including the nature and quality of the solid particles used.

    Our procedure for handling customer complaints is available on request from your usual contacts.

    Why trust us?

    Knowledge

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    Soft skills

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    Know-how

    Our procedure for handling customer complaints is available on request from your usual contacts.

    Our team is ready to listen!

    Get in touch with us 

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    Cécile JOSEPH

    Formulation Manager