Charting distinctive path for beauty brands

Focusing on innovative raw material development, formulation technologies, efficacy evaluation and more, the institute has served more than 100 leading domestic and international cosmetics and personal care companies.

Inside the Jiangnan Beauty Bay building, innovation upstairs is quickly translated into commercial products downstairs.

On the production line of Rayting Biotechnology, rows of fermentation tanks have helped turn lab inspirations into tangible ingredients.

"Take fermentation technology as an example: once a promising strain is identified in the lab, it can come to us immediately for pilot-scale amplification and verification. If successful, it moves straight into production as a commercial ingredient," said Du Yangbiao, chairman of Rayting Biotechnology.

"This seamless handoff reduces the risks of innovation and accelerates the entire process," Du said.

Fermentation essentially creates the ideal growth environment for microorganisms, Du explained. The process begins with an original strain stored at minus 80 C and expands step-by-step until it reaches multi-ton fermentation tanks — a process that demands precise control.

After years of collaboration with Jiangnan University, the producer has built its own strain library and proprietary fermentation technologies, breaking the long-standing dominance of overseas suppliers in active raw materials.

"Raw materials are the core technology inside beauty products — they are the 'chips' of the cosmetics industry. Our job is to reliably scale up lab discoveries into ingredients that downstream manufacturers can use," Du said.