Your skincare products are full of fats and oils. This startup launched a clean beauty line with ancient chemistry

"Your beauty and skincare products are full of fats and oils. They're what makes that cream so moisturizing or that emollient so good at repairing your skin barrier. Often, those lipids come from palm oil or even animal fats, both of which are environmentally damaging to produce. But soon, the lipids in your personal care products could come from upcycled carbon, skipping the agriculture industry entirely."

"Savor, a tech company that makes fats and oils directly out of carbon, has already proven this technology through the launch of its butter, which began commercial production in 2025. Now, Savor is announcing a personal care and beauty division, bringing its plant- and animal-free fats beyond food to what it calls a "new era" of clean beauty. How Savor makes fats without plants or animals Savor turns the typical production of fats on its head."

Savor produces fats and oils directly from captured carbon dioxide, methane, or green hydrogen using a thermochemical process, bypassing plant cultivation and animal agriculture. The company began commercial production of a carbon-derived butter in 2025 and is expanding into a personal care and beauty division to supply plant- and animal-free lipids for cosmetics. Conventional fat sources such as palm oil and animal fats require extensive land, drive deforestation, and cause biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas emissions. Savor's process eliminates those agricultural steps, reduces land use and associated climate impacts, and provides alternative emollients and barrier-repairing lipids for skincare formulations.

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