Abeille Royale: Advanced Youth Watery Oil

In 2010, Guerlain caused a stir with Abeille Royale, a range of expert age-defying skincare drawing its remarkable efficacy from bee products. Long before the current craze for these natural ingredients, Guerlain identified their formidable potential and developed unrivalled scientific knowledge of the subject over the years and through its research. With each new launch, Guerlain pushes the limits of this expertise to offer ever-more innovative, targeted and effective care.

Today, technological advances such as artificial intelligence, new research disciplines (Omics), medical imaging revolutions and new characterisations of biological targets allow to take an innovative, interactive and dynamic approach to research. New links are created, opening up previously unimaginable prospects for discovery.
Based on this integrative new scientific approach, Guerlain created the Guerlain Beelab: the first research platform dedicated to bee products and their power to repair the visible signs of ageing.
This unique research consortium is revolutionising our scientific approach, allowing us to continue to pioneer science-bee research, and fuelling our innovations for years to come.

A multidisciplinary platform, the Beelab is split into 3 research areas with global scientific visibility. Each is led by a renowned scientific expert–leading figure with recognised work and publications, helping to push the standards and expertise to the highest level. The 3 hubs interact to find solutions to fundamental questions about bee products, select new raw materials and find new cosmetic applications for the skin.

HUB 1: THE BEE

Intensive beekeeping has profoundly changed the genetic structure of bee populations in our territories. Identifying and obtaining the best raw materials begins with a detailed and exhaustive study of bees and, more specifically, the black bee, an endemic French species. What are its biological, genetic and genomic characteristics? Does it remain diverse? How so? How does it maintain its resistance within the colonies? In which environment does it evolve best? And how does it produce its products? By fine-tuning the answers to these questions, global knowledge of bees will take on a new dimension. It is our aim to extend the characterisation of the integrity of the genetic heritage of black bee populations and their ecosystems, in order to improve our knowledge and produce exceptional new products.

HUB 2: BEE PRODUCTS

Professor Skaltsounis is a specialist in medicinal and natural substance chemistry. He gained his PhD in pharmacognosy at the University of Paris V and teaches at the University of Athens. He has unique expertise in deciphering the exact phytochemistry of honeys and bee products, using the latest methods of chromatography (liquid and gas), NMR spectroscopy, metabolomics and proteomics. With his internationally recognised expertise, he reveals the detailed composition of each bee product. These analyses study the composition of the honeys, allowing links to be established between the bee and its foraging and production strategies. How does it behave and evolve through the seasons, the relative biodiversity of this environment (the type of flora foraged) and the beekeeping methods? The potential of these analyses is immense. They may lead to the discovery of new bee product combinations of the very highest standard.

HUB 3: SKIN REPAIR

Led by Dr Valérie Planat, Toulouse, France – RESTORE Laboratory / Inserm
Valérie Planat is a teacher-researcher at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse and a specialist in human skin. She is the author of numerous publications on the characterisation, roles and interactions of various skin cell populations. She also takes part in numerous programmes on the importance of cell and tissue recovery (resilience) processes, following the accumulation of stresses leading to premature ageing. Her recent work in cell therapy is among the most innovative in the world, helping us to fine-tune our knowledge of the mechanisms involved in skin repair and opening up new ways of improving it. Our research programme will allow us to build on this extensive work, apply it to cosmetics and, in the future, develop new technologies capable of an even more powerful and targeted approach.

THE BEELAB: A TURNING POINT IN GUERLAIN RESEARCH

By creating this international research platform, Guerlain has an unprecedented means of broadening its understanding of the efficacy of bee products on skin repair, opening up new horizons and, in the future, new discoveries.

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