Botanical expertise
Botanical expertise is at the heart of our innovation approach. We carefully select original plants and develop effective eco-extracts.
Every year since 2019, we have transferred four new active eco-extracts to industry.
Boosting the efficacy of our products through botanical science
What sets us apart: a continuum of expertise and technologies covering the entire spectrum from selection of the most appropriate plant for the benefit sought, to incorporation of its active ingredient into the end product. In this context, to preserve nature and secure our supply chains, we adopt a virtuous approach based on a mix of organically farmed crops on our own land, certified sustainable supply chains, experimental agriculture, and genomic expertise.
- 69 % of our active ingredients include plants that are farmed organically or without phytosanitary products
- 100 % of new plant-based active ingredients produced from sustainable supply chains since 2025
Our botanical conservatories, conserving our botanical heritage
At the Botanical Conservatory, we make good use of our botanical expertise to guarantee plant conservation, raise awareness about the importance of protecting our ecosystems, and promote sustainable supply chains through our recognized scientific collections, our in vitro culture and genomic laboratory, our botanical laboratory, and our experimentation area, which also raises awareness about the richness of biodiversity.
Scientific studies at the Botanical Conservatory in Soual (Tarn, France)
At the Botanical Conservatory, we make good use of our botanical expertise to guarantee plant conservation, raise awareness about the importance of protecting our ecosystems, and promote sustainable supply chains through our recognized scientific collections, our in vitro culture and genomic laboratory, our botanical laboratory, and our experimentation area, which also raises awareness about the richness of biodiversity.
An arboretum in Ranopiso (Madagascar)
At the Ranopiso site, we cultivate an arboretum, in a region where 90% of plants are endemic. On top of that, a dry deciduous forest area spanning some 290 ha has been classified as a protected area. An inventory of the flora that grows within this little-studied biotope is now being drawn up, in cooperation with botanists from the French National Museum of Natural History. To date, some 234 species have been identified, including two undescribed species. This is the second voluntary private protected area in Madagascar, and the first in the south of the country.
Plant extraction: Green Native Expression ®
After eight years of research and development, we have perfected a new patented plant extraction technique that is natural and environmentally friendly: Green Native Expression harnesses fresh plants in their simplest form by extracting pure sap, composed solely of the plant’s native active ingredients.
This technique, which does not require either water or solvents, produces more active ingredients yet consumes fewer plants and CO2.
Open Innovation, our botanical library
With its 17,000 samples, Pierre Fabre Laboratories houses one of the largest private plant collections in the world. Shared with selected partners, it provides valuable input for key scientific partnerships, such as the one we run with the University of Geneva to discover innovative compounds and improve our knowledge of the metabolites (polyphenols, flavonoids, alkaloids, etc.) found in plant cells.
*Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
