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THE INGREDIENT MANUFACTURER THAT BUILDS UNIQUE CONCEPTS FOR YOUR BRAND SUCCESS

Talk to our Head of NPD Ingredient Strategy

What NATIVE EXTRACTS Does for Brands

The next beauty leaders Must Bridge Science With Virality for success

If your ingredients aren't telling your story then your brand is already falling behind.

Today, Beauty Consumers are redefining success. Product performance and efficacy alone isn’t enough. They demand ingredient transparency, eco-responsibility, inclusivity, upcycling, connection to growers and positive impact stories that connect.

Hero ingredient choices directly impact brand relevance, trust, community alignment and long-term brand success.

NATIVE EXTRACTS turns ingredient decisions into competitive advantage, bridging advanced plant science with brand-led storytelling to support both performance and positioning.

We work alongside your formulators/contract manufacturers and marketing team to align ingredient strategy with brand vision, so products are built with purpose from the start.

This is ingredient strategy — not just ingredient supply.

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THE INGREDIENT PARTNER ADVANTAGE

Why Brands Choose NATIVE EXTRACTS

Leading innovaton in plant science and green chemistry, we are more than an ingredient manufacturer. We are a strategic ingredient partner and brand builder. Supporting brand differentiation, formulation decisions, and storytelling from day one.

Brand-Ready Storytelling & Media Assets

  • Ingredient backstories, visuals, and scientific documentation
  • Build transparency and trust without starting from scratch
  • Support brand reveals, launches, and ongoing content
  • Reduce reliance on external agencies and guesswork

400+ True to Nature Ingredients

  • Cellular extracts, active oils, carrier oils
  • Native Australian and non-native botanicals
  • Custom blends and brand-specific solutions
  • Ideal for new launches, reformulations, and range evolution

Advanced Cellular Extraction™

  • Captures broad phyto-compound profiles
  • Harnesses a botanical's hydrophilic entourage
  • Preserves true-to-nature integrity
  • Advances in metabolomics

Brand-Ready Storytelling & Media Assets

  • Ingredient backstories, visuals, and scientific documentation
  • Build transparency and trust without starting from scratch
  • Support brand reveals, launches, and ongoing content
  • Reduce reliance on external agencies and guesswork

400+ True to Nature Ingredients

  • Cellular extracts, active oils, carrier oils
  • Native Australian and non-native botanicals
  • Custom blends and brand-specific solutions
  • Ideal for new launches, reformulations, and range evolution

Advanced Cellular Extraction™

  • Captures broad phyto-compound profiles
  • Harnesses a botanical's hydrophilic entourage
  • Preserves true-to-nature integrity
  • Advances in metabolomics

Trusted by Brands Shaping the Next Generation of Beauty

The New Competitive Edge

"Consumers are seeking brands with soul and communities they align with. If brands aren’t bridging science and transparency with viral-driving visual storytelling, they’re already missing out."

- Lisa Carroll, CEO NATIVE EXTRACTS

For brands evolving existing products

Evolving Products Without Starting Over

Today, the ingredients you choose must go beyond the science. They shape your product, your brand story, communicate your values and align with your communities.

Now is the time to bring your legacy formulations into a new era of transparency, eco-responsibility, upcycled innovation, and emerging ingredients that meet consumer demands.

We support established brands to evolve existing SKUs by replacing past ingredient choices with the latest in plant science and green chemistry, without requiring major formulation disruption.

This enables brands to build new backstories, strengthen relevance, and lead
the longevity narrative.

Do you have an ingredient strategy that translates across your entire range, from past formulations to present releases and future extensions?

With the right ingredient strategy, hero SKUs can be refreshed, repositioned, and extended maintaining formulation integrity while unlocking new value.

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Why you need your own NPD Ingredient Strategist

Meet your NPD Ingredient Strategist - Your competitive advantage

Melinda and her team do NPD differently.

They operate at the intersection of ingredient chemistry, supply-chain visibility, and commercial strategy ensuring early ingredient decisions strengthen performance, scalability, and long-term brand relevance.

We don't do formulations.
We do ingredient strategy.

You gain access to over 30 years of industry knowledge, established resources, and trusted contacts, allowing you to fast-track NPD and brand launches.

Brands partner with NATIVE EXTRACTS to:

  • Access first-to-market ingredient opportunities
  • Customise ingredient strategies to differentiate at scale
  • Modernise legacy SKUs without destabilising core formulas
  • Strengthen traceability and ingredient transparency
  • Align innovation pipelines with emerging market demands
  • Access Media assets that build trust

INGREDIENT STRATEGY DETERMINES BRAND TRAJECTORY.

If you are building your next launch or reassessing your pipeline, start here.

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WORK WITH US

Lets get started

We work alongside your Formulators, Contract Manufacturers and your Marketing team at any stage of the Ingredient NPD process. Collaboration across brand, formulation, and manufacturing is essential to successful outcomes, and our team supports ingredients considerations to ensure confidence throughout.

Early decision making on ingredient selection can impact how your marketing team can leverage off the backstories and support your brand strategy.

Discovery CALL (Free 15min)

Book a 15-minute Discovery Call with our Ingredient NPD Strategist.

Before we talk ingredients, we focus on understanding your brand, product direction, and objectives.

A short pre-questionnaire is shared ahead of the call so we can assess alignment and identify where ingredient strategy can best support your brand.

Outcome: NATIVE EXTRACTS provides you with relevant resources and brands that qualify move to the Ingredient NPD Brief stage.

INGREDIENT NPD BRIEF

Define the Project Scope.

You’ll complete a structured Ingredient NPD Brief outlining your product vision and priorities.

This gives us clarity on:

  • Product concepts and SKUs
  • Application goals
  • Sustainability and sourcing priorities
  • Brand storytelling direction
  • Timeline and development stage

From here, we prepare a scope of work and proposal for the Ingredient Exploration phase.

Outcome: Approved proposals move into Ingredient Exploration.

INGREDIENT EXPLORATION (Paid Phase)

Strategic Ingredient Considerations.

This is where ingredient strategy and innovation take shape.

We save you time & help you narrow down your ingredient selections to explore:

  • Product objectives
  • Brand positioning
  • Ingredient storytelling
  • Product line extensions
  • Technically transfers/brand refreshes

You'll receive additonal information relavant to your project:

  • Applicable datasheets and lab resources
  • Botanical origin and provenance insights
  • Ingredient narratives and brand storytelling opportunities
  • Supporting media assets where relevant

Outcome: A customised Ingredient Strategy Package ready for trial.

Ready for Trial — Final Cut

Move from concept to R&D trials.

We finalise your natural hero ingredient selection to those best aligned with your product and brand objectives.

From here we:

  • Prepare and ship samples to your Formulator or Contract Manufacturer
  • Collaborate directly with your partners to ensure alignment

Where required, we can introduce trusted and leading Formulators and Contract Manufacturers within our network.

Outcome: Final Ingredient Strategy Package ready for product development.

Discovery CALL (Free 15min)

Book a 15-minute Discovery Call with our Ingredient NPD Strategist.

Before we talk ingredients, we focus on understanding your brand, product direction, and objectives.

A short pre-questionnaire is shared ahead of the call so we can assess alignment and identify where ingredient strategy can best support your brand.

Outcome: NATIVE EXTRACTS provides you with relevant resources and brands that qualify move to the Ingredient NPD Brief stage.

INGREDIENT NPD BRIEF

Define the Project Scope.

You’ll complete a structured Ingredient NPD Brief outlining your product vision and priorities.

This gives us clarity on:

  • Product concepts and SKUs
  • Application goals
  • Sustainability and sourcing priorities
  • Brand storytelling direction
  • Timeline and development stage

From here, we prepare a scope of work and proposal for the Ingredient Exploration phase.

Outcome: Approved proposals move into Ingredient Exploration.

INGREDIENT EXPLORATION (Paid Phase)

Strategic Ingredient Considerations.

This is where ingredient strategy and innovation take shape.

We save you time & help you narrow down your ingredient selections to explore:

  • Product objectives
  • Brand positioning
  • Ingredient storytelling
  • Product line extensions
  • Technically transfers/brand refreshes

You'll receive additonal information relavant to your project:

  • Applicable datasheets and lab resources
  • Botanical origin and provenance insights
  • Ingredient narratives and brand storytelling opportunities
  • Supporting media assets where relevant

Outcome: A customised Ingredient Strategy Package ready for trial.

Ready for Trial — Final Cut

Move from concept to R&D trials.

We finalise your natural hero ingredient selection to those best aligned with your product and brand objectives.

From here we:

  • Prepare and ship samples to your Formulator or Contract Manufacturer
  • Collaborate directly with your partners to ensure alignment

Where required, we can introduce trusted and leading Formulators and Contract Manufacturers within our network.

Outcome: Final Ingredient Strategy Package ready for product development.

The NATIVE EXTRACT Advantage

Ingredients That Build Brands Not Just Products

The strategic advantage behind every ingredient decision

Brands that understand their ingredients beyond the science build greater trust, relevance, and long-term brand value.

At NATIVE EXTRACTS, you don’t just access ingredients.

You access the stories behind them.

This is how brands create products with meaning. And stories that align with their brand narrative.

Stand Out With Ingredient Strategy

Make ingredient decisions that differentiate your brand, not dilute it.

Connect Your Entire Range

Align legacy SKUs, new launches, and future extensions under one clear ingredient direction.

Build With What’s Next

Leverage green chemistry and upcycled innovation to stay ahead of shifting consumer expectations. e.g Red Velvet Oil


Turn Science Into Story

Translate performance into narratives that build trust, community, and commercial impact.



Stand Out With Ingredient Strategy

Make ingredient decisions that differentiate your brand, not dilute it.

Connect Your Entire Range

Align legacy SKUs, new launches, and future extensions under one clear ingredient direction.

Build With What’s Next

Leverage green chemistry and upcycled innovation to stay ahead of shifting consumer expectations. e.g Red Velvet Oil


Turn Science Into Story

Translate performance into narratives that build trust, community, and commercial impact.



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What's Trending

Upcycled, Pro-Planet Ingredients

Upcycled ingredients are not a niche movement. They are scaling — projected to grow 5x by 2027.

  • 60% of consumers are actively interested in upcycled products.
  • 64% of Gen Z and Millennials are willing to pay more for sustainable options.
  • 97% want greater transparency from beauty brands about ingredients and sourcing.

Tomato harvest marks the next release of our upcycled Red Velvet Oil™. Derived from cold-pressed tomato seeds diverted from waste streams and naturally rich in lycopene, phytosterols, and essential fatty acids.

This reflects a broader shift in beauty. Performance, circularity, and responsible sourcing are no longer optional.

For brands prioritising transparency, impact, and long-term relevance, this is ingredient innovation aligned with where the market is heading.

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Build Your Competitive Edge With Ingredient Strategy