Leading US skincare brandNeutrogenahas introduced a line of personalized 3D printed skin health supplements at theCES 2023exhibition.
Neutrogena says users can create these ‘Skin360 SkinStacks’ using data collected via its digital skin assessment tools, which allow for the development of personalized ‘nutrient stacks.’ Once Skin360 app users have completed a self-scan, they can order their gummies from 3D printing specialist滋养, each of which has nutrient layers designed to address a specific area of skin concern.
“我们的基础是，美丽始于健康的皮肤，并以一种始终提供在科学和技术交集建立的护肤解决方案的遗产而感到自豪，” Neutrogena的SVP Roberto Khoury说。“与滋养合作，我们可以通过将屡获殊荣的数字皮肤评估与滋养的3D打印结合起来，以创造按需饮食补充剂来进一步做出承诺，这有助于消费者实现其个人护肤目标。”
滋养的软糖3D打印
The technology behind Neutrogena’s latest 3D printing initiative has actually been developed at Nourished, a firm with over four years’ experience in the field. The company’s offering revolves around a proprietary nutrient-producing technology, which allows customers to create custom supplements made from up to seven of 28 ingredients, including various vitamins, fruit extracts, and probiotics.
鹰眼的读者可能还记得魔术糖果工厂, a company created by Nourished CEO Melissa Snover, using 3D printing to make customized sugary treats. Snover presented an early iteration of Nourished, then called Vitamyne, during the UK version of Shark Tank,Dragons Den。
魔术糖果工厂’s parent company, Katjes Fassin and Co GmbH KG would later work withfabrx在开发个性化医学的项目中。
According to Nourished, its current range is “vegan, eco-friendly and delicious,” but its in-house R&D team continues to draw on feedback and scientific research to both identify ways of improving its offering, and developing new products.
除了介绍旨在满足特定客户需求的堆栈，从更年期软糖到为宿醉患者开发的堆栈，该公司还与备受瞩目的合作伙伴合作，将其产品推向市场。与牙科跨国公司一起Colgate, for example, Nourished now offers five Nutristacks, each featuring the ingredients to help consumers protect their enamel from plaque.
How do Skin360 SkinStacks work?
创建一个个性化的Skin360 SkinStack,中性粒细胞rogena says customers must first download its Skin360 app and acquire the ‘SkinScanner’ mobile attachment. Once they’ve done so, users can take a 180-degree selfie and upload it to the app, which utilizes a proprietary algorithm to assess the skin and recommend a nutrient plan to help them achieve their skincare goals.
Though the offering is being marketed to fully-customize Nourished nutrient stacks, customers are being offered just five different skin goals at launch: Ageless, Clear, Hydrate, Glow, and Resilient. That said, each of these supplements can be modified to include various nutrients, including vitamins A to D, selenium, zinc, riboflavin, coenzyme Q10, and more.
When customers are happy with their custom stack, they can order a 28-day supply from Nourished, which pledges a 14-day delivery turnaround. At launch, Melissa Snover, CEO, and Founder of the company, says its offering with Neutrogena provides a form of nutrition personalization that’s unique on the market.
“A lot of people are using the words personalization, but very few people are actually doing it,”Snover told Beauty Inc。“通过将我们的技术与Neutrogena的皮肤扫描相结合，我们有一些以前没有做过的事情，并且比我们现在在市场上看到的东西更具个性化。”
Neutrogena dabbles in 3D printing (again)
While Neutrogena may not be the first firm that comes to mind when you think of 3D printing, its collaboration with Nourished isn’t the first time it has sought to cash in on the technology’s marketing appeal. Back in 2019, theJohnson & Johnsonsubsidiary began allowing customers to createcustomizable 3D printed face masks。
With the IOS MaskiD app, users were able to create a face mask specific to their needs by first taking a photograph, and then selecting various types of treatment to be 3D printed on their masks’ forehead, eye, cheek, nose, and chin areas. Also reliant on the Skin360 app and Skin Scanner add-on, the technology was said to allow users to analyze the moisture, pores, fine lines, and wrinkles on their skin.
At the time, Michael Southall, a research director at Neutrogena, explained how “using micro 3D-printing, you can actually get your exact eye alignment, your nose, your mouth, [and] how high your forehead is. The key with 3D printing is [that] we can put the active [ingredient] you want just where you need it, anywhere on the mask, as opposed to one product that you’re trying to use all over the face.”
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Featured image shows a Nourished-3D printed nutrition ‘stack.’ Photo via Nourished.
