A new DIVERSA brand built on our lipid-based delivery expertise and designed specifically for the needs of cosmetics, nutraceuticals and natural ingredients.
Today, we are introducing Sphirence from DIVERSA for the first time: a new brand created to bring our lipid-based delivery expertise into cosmetics, nutraceuticals and natural ingredients.
A new brand invites an obvious question: why a separate name, and what is it for?
Where Sphirence comes from
DIVERSA Technologies was founded in Santiago de Compostela out of more than a decade of pharmaceutical drug delivery research, developed in association with the Santiago de Compostela Health Research Institute (IDIS). Many promising molecules face limitations not because of their intrinsic activity, but because of formulation challenges such as degradation, poor solubility, instability or inefficient delivery. That is the problem our lipid-based systems were built to address.
Over the years, a pattern became difficult to ignore: the questions reaching us from outside the pharmaceutical sector were structurally similar. A retinoid that oxidises. A botanical extract that will not disperse. A high-value peptide that loses activity on the shelf.
Sphirence is our answer to those questions, not a pharmaceutical product adapted after the fact, but a platform developed for the regulatory frameworks, documentation standards and commercial realities of the cosmetic and nutraceutical industries.
Why a brand, and not just a product line
The straightforward option would have been to add a cosmetic range to the DIVERSA catalogue. We chose not to, for three reasons.
The customer is different. Pharmaceutical and biotech customers typically approach formulation through an R&D and development framework, while cosmetic and nutraceutical customers operate within very different product-development, regulatory and go-to-market environments. Serving both well requires different approaches, priorities and ways of working.
The model is different. Sphirence is designed as a technology “inside”: integrated into someone else’s formula, under someone else’s brand. That only works if the technology has an identity a partner can stand next to and, when it makes sense, name. A platform meant to sit inside other people’s products needs its own name, its own evidence base and its own claims framework.
Focus is a decision, not a consequence. A separate brand carries a separate roadmap, a separate investment case and a separate team commitment. It is our way of stating publicly that this is a long-term line of business, not an experiment on the margins of the pharmaceutical work.
Three areas of focus
- Cosmetics. The core application. Modular lipid systems that protect high-value actives from oxidation and thermal stress, keep formulas stable through pH variation and hot or cold processing, and facilitate the incorporation of poorly soluble ingredients into aqueous formulations.
- Nutraceuticals. The same architecture, adapted to ingestible matrices, where actives face solubility, oxidation and sensory challenges of their own. Extending the platform towards both topical and ingestible applications is a deliberate part of the Sphirence strategy.
- Natural ingredients. Sphirence has been designed with natural-origin positioning in mind, using lipid-based systems compatible with the growing demand for high-performance formulations with carefully selected ingredients. This makes the platform particularly relevant for brands seeking to combine formulation performance with evolving consumer and market expectations.
How we work
Sphirence is a B2B platform, and we start with strategy rather than lab work. Every project begins by mapping the active, the target formulation and the commercial fit before a prototype exists — discovery, proposal, development, pilot batch, market-ready. The technology is adapted to each active rather than sold as a fixed catalogue item, and we work with each partner through the collaboration model that fits their project.
What comes next
Sphirence is now entering a new stage. Over the coming months, we will share new applications, ingredient developments and collaborations as we continue bringing DIVERSA’s lipid-based technology into cosmetics and nutraceuticals.
For DIVERSA, Sphirence represents more than a new name. It is the beginning of a dedicated path for translating our delivery expertise into a new generation of natural and functional ingredients.
If you are working on an active that is difficult to formulate, we would like to hear about it.
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