TAGS: Skin Care
L’Oréal and Verily announce one of its kind strategic partnerships to advance precision skin health. The partnership in the beauty industry is expected to entail two programs aimed to better understand, characterize skin and hair aging mechanisms and L’Oréal will develop precision beauty tech strategy and product development.
Decode & Discover Skin Health
The strategic research collaboration to establish a longitudinal biological, clinical, environmental view of skin health. It combines L’Oréal’s deep scientific knowledge of skin and Verily’s comprehensive clinical science capabilities, to decode and discover the links between exposome, skin aging and deep biology of the skin.
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We are excited to partner with Verily, a world leader in precision health tech. L’Oréal’s century-long commitment to pioneering innovation has come from our strong belief in the intersection between science, formulations, and our unique Advanced Research capabilities to decode revolutionary scientific discoveries that will create the future of beauty,” says Nicolas Hieronimus, chief executive officer, L’Oréal Group.
“Verily and L’Oréal believe in the transformative power of technology to enable precision beauty and health,” says Stephen Gillett, president and COO, Verily. “We are pleased to partner with a world leader in cosmetic science to better understand and promote skin health.”
Partnership to Lead New Era of Skin Health
The partnership with Verily’s R&D Team and L’Oréal’s Active Cosmetics Division, to explore the development of new technologies and tele-diagnosis solutions, such as sensors, and AI algorithms for dermatology and skincare, that can form the basis for new services.
“Thanks to this partnership, we want to lead a new era of skin health, through tech and science, to enable every person around the world the most inclusive, personalized, powerful and precise programs for their skin at each stage of their lives,” says Nicolas Hieronimus.
"We recognize skin health as a critical need for overall wellness as it not only impacts us physically in our daily lives, but also holistically. Our collective approach has the potential to identify the right intervention based on data, powered by Verily's technology and clinical science abilities combined with L’Oréal’s beauty industry leading intelligence and dermatology network," says Brian Otis, fellow, co-founder, Verily.
“The new partnership between L’Oréal and Verily promises innovation for dermatologists and consumers. We look forward to learning more about the skin as a result of their strategic research collaboration and we hope that the new algorithms and tools will improve consumer access to personalized information so people can care for their skin more effectively,” says Dr Amanda Oakley, president, International Society of Teledermatology.
Source: L’Oréal