Squalane from sustainable fermented sugarcane (avoids shark-derived squalene); 'clean' ingredient blacklist of 2,000+; carbon-neutral shipping; cruelty-free; vegan.
| Ingredient transparency | Could not be retrieved (no readable product feed, or requests blocked) |
| Ownership | THG Beauty (acquired for ~$20M out of Amyris bankruptcy, 2024) (THG-owned) |
| Where made | Brand based in Emeryville, California with squalane produced in Brazil; finished goods manufacturing sites are not disclosed. |
| Price | Mid-range |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Yes |
| Organic | No |
| Certifications | Vegan; Cruelty-Free |
| Sold in mainland China | Has expanded into China through ecommerce only, which sidesteps mandatory animal testing for imported cosmetics, and it remains certified cruelty free by Leaping Bunny and PETA. |
| Palm oil | Its signature squalane is fermented from Brazilian sugarcane rather than shark liver or palm oil, grown on roughly 1 square kilometre of existing farmland far from the Amazon. |
| Packaging | Recyclable, sugarcane-derived |
| Good On You | No Good On You rating found. |
| EWG | EWG Skin Deep scores vary by product from low to moderate hazard, and no Biossance product was found in the EWG Verified programme. |
| External ratings | Leaping Bunny certified; PETA cruelty-free; 100% vegan; EWG Verified (select); B Corp certified; National Eczema Association accepted; Clean at Sephora |
| Controversies | Incubator and former parent Amyris filed for Chapter 11 in August 2023 and Biossance was sold at auction for about 20 million dollars, a fraction of the 300 to 400 million Amyris had invested, which the trade press described as a bargain basement outcome. |
| Caveat | Now owned by THG Beauty (The Hut Group) after the 2023 Amyris bankruptcy auction, so sustainability claims written under Amyris ownership is recorded as legacy material until THG restates them. |
| Reports note | <p>Founded under biotech Amyris; after Amyris’ 2023 bankruptcy, Biossance was acquired by THG Beauty (~$20M). One of the most certified brands here: Leaping Bunny + PETA + 100% vegan + B Corp + EWG Verified + NEA accepted. No published COAs/clinical studies located.</p> |
Why there is no score: Site could not be read. No verdict is given. Neither a full ingredient read nor a check of the certifications against the certifiers own registers has been completed for this brand, so there is no basis for judging it either way. No score is published. No readable product listing could be found at https://biossance.com, so the catalogue could not be enumerated. A manual product by product read has not yet been completed.
Last checked 22 July 2026.
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