GRAPE IDEA

With global supply chains slowed, by-products created with production materials that would otherwise go to waste is a popular approach. In particular, food and beverage production waste is being embraced as a useful resource by the beauty industry. Ahead of the curve, Marlborough-based New Zealand Extracts Limited has already seen success with a skin-boosting extract that uses the seeds of grapes used to make the region’s famous wine. Vinanza® Skin Performance is a proprietary blend of bioactive functional extracts from kiwifruit skins and sauvignon blanc grape seeds, said to have significant antioxidant and anti-ageing benefits for skin. With an environmentally friendly ‘world first’ pure water extraction process and supported with clinical trials, the extract is available in skincare products including serums and moisturisers by their fellow Kiwi brand, Antipodes.