Keracol Limited

Keracol is dedicated on creating pioneering skincare products by repurposing sustainable, upcycled ingredients. This project allows Keracol to complete the research behind new findings from its research on anti-ageing skincare solutions and support the commercialisation of the innovation to the beauty industry through its own brand but also unlocking pote...

The proposal addresses China’s development priorities to eliminate waste and improve food safety. The project will exploit complementary Chinese and UK research and industrial expertise to valorise waste from large scale (>10 million tons of waste) Chinese mandarin canning manufacturing for food safety applications. Efficient green technologies will be op...

Keracol is a highly innovative small company developing natural chemical technologies. This project is a collaborative feasibility study with The University of Porto (UoP) to develop international cooperation and initiate novel approaches to produce more stable and oil-soluble natural colorants for food and cosmetic applications. Keracol extracts natural ...

The objectives of this work are to develop colorants extracted from natural resources to produce ink formulations that have good adhesion to the eggshell, with excellent water fastness, with no penetration of the colorant into the egg interior, coupled with good reliability in an inkjet printer. These will be formulated to promote rapid drying times to pr...

Colorants are used extensively in the food industry for primarily aesthetic reasons. For decades, synthetic dyes have dominated, but there is a desire to source all food colorants from natural resources. Of all food colours, blue is the most difficult to achieve from natural sources. Coloration of food a true blue colour is currently dominated by a synthe...

Keracol Limited (KL) is developing novel and green techniques to extract and isolate natural polysaccharides from British seaweeds and to utilise these extracts in nutraceutical applications for health benefits, particularly lowering bad cholesterol for cardiovascular benefits. We require a collaboration with an academic body to research formulation metho...

This project is concerned with the extraction of natural products and their application as hair colorants and in other formulated cosmetic products. Our first generation of products are anthocyanins – natural colorants found in plants. We have demonstrated that anthocyanins can be used as highly-desirable semi-permanent natural dyes for coloration of hair...