Our elastin and collagen polypeptides support follicle health, encouraging growth and improved fiber manageability and frizz control.
Elastapure® · Collume® · PrimaColl®
Ingredients for skin care, hair care, and beyond
Our portfolio of peptides and polypeptides is designed for skin care and hair care applications, supporting skin health and vitality, hair manageability, and styling. However, our ingredients can do more across the spectrum of beauty and wellness, enhancing emerging and disruptive categories, including color cosmetics, follicle health, oral care, intimate care, and more. Contact us for details about these segments.
Explore Geltor’s growing portfolio of biodesigned peptides and polypeptides.
HumaColl™21
HumaColl™21 Select
Elastapure®
Collume®
Caviance®
PrimaColl®
Portfolio FAQ
Collagen is the body’s most abundant structural protein, and there are 28 known types of it, though most people have only ever heard of a couple. Type 1 and Type 3 are the most abundant, giving skin its physical structure. Others, like Type 21, are far rarer and work differently: as signals rather than building blocks.
Biomimetic means engineered to match a sequence already found in nature, in this case, human proteins, rather than something invented from scratch. Geltor’s biomimetic ingredients are built through precision fermentation to mirror an exact natural amino acid sequence, without extracting anything from an animal or human source.
Both are chains of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. A peptide is a chain of 2 to 50 amino acids bonded together. A polypeptide is longer, a chain of 51 or more amino acids, and one or more polypeptides bonded together form a full protein. “Polypeptide” has become one of the most searched skincare ingredient terms, up 68.6% year over year (SPATE x SYMRISE, May 2023).
“Vegan collagen” gets used for two different things: blends of plant amino acids, which aren’t structurally collagen at all, and genuine collagen made through biotech, the exact human or animal sequence produced in a fermentation tank rather than extracted from an animal, the same basic approach used to make insulin since the 1980s. Unlike animal-derived collagen, which is a mix of whatever types happen to be in the source tissue, biotech collagen is a single, defined type at a consistent purity every time.
GRAS (“generally recognized as safe”) is a safety status for food ingredients. Companies can self-determine GRAS, or take the more rigorous step of submitting their safety data to the FDA for review, which responds with a “no questions” letter if it has no concerns. PrimaColl® is the first biotech-derived collagen to receive an FDA “no questions” letter and enter the FDA GRAS Notice Inventory (GRN No. 1171).
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for Biodesigned Proteins
We are experts in our field, biodesigning the next-generation of peptide and polypeptide ingredients for beauty, wellness, and beyond. In addition to our growing commercial portfolio, we partner with innovative brands to revolutionize the industry with novel bioactive peptide-based ingredients.
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