Baby Skin and the Microbiome Webinar: Carol Treasure

Our fourth joint webinar with Cosmetics Cluster UK (CCUK) took place in March 2022 and brought together academic and industry expertise to focus on personal care innovation in the area of infant and baby care with a focus on skin microbiome.

Carol Treasure – Founder & CEO, XCellR8

Talk title – "A walk on the mild side" XtraMild: an in vitro skin test for baby care products. 

XCellR8 is an animal-free testing laboratory. XCellR8 conduct regulatory in vitro safety and efficacy tests for global cosmetic companies and ingredient manufacturers. Carol founded XCellR8 in 2008 with a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to 100% animal-free testing and the company’s work has been recognised at a regulatory level by the OECD and by top funding bodies such as Innovate UK and Horizon 2020. Carol holds a first degree in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD from the FRAME Alternatives Laboratory at University of Nottingham, based on skin cell biology and reconstructed skin models for cosmetics testing. She has devoted her career to using innovative science to replace animal testing over the past 25 years.