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Hello there, and welcome back to
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Hydroponics Daily, your go-to podcast for everything soilless cultivation.
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I'm your host, Dada Russell-Sharp, the founder of Utrema Limited.
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That's Latin for wasabi, and we manufacture hydroponic fertilizers,
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novel biostimulants, and organic biopesticides.
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And today, I've been doing some research on companies that use hydroponics in
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their production system, but don't make a big deal of it,
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and for non-food companies. So they use them in their manufacturing.
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And there's a really interesting, what I pulled out of the data is really interesting.
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So what I found is that loads of these companies are based in France,
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which you don't normally think of when it comes to hydroponics.
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And they're all, a lot of them are cosmetics groups.
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So Ule, they produce their
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vertical eco farm for the production of coleus tulsi
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and centella and that's specifically for
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cosmetics and then the l'oreal group the
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skincare group they grow loads of calendula in herbal
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extract toner that goes into and so
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they they have they produce that in in
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america in warwick in new york not warwick
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with the castle so calendula and then the company capsum
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in france high-end cosmetics they have
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a farm a lab farm in marseilles that
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they've built with ebb and flow hydroponics for herbal medicinal
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herbs and cosmetic ingredients
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then marlow hydroponic skincare is a u.s company they have positioned themselves
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as the hydroponic skincare company and it's built around clean hydroponic extracts
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that's their usp and so that's really interesting i've never heard of them but
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they're a company dedicated to hydroponic skin care.
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Plant Advanced Technologies in France, they make cosmetic actives using aeroponics,
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so meadowsweet roots, and so that's interesting.
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Their business is focused on cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and flour and chemicals, not edible crops.
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And then again in France, Botanics with an X on the end, their vertical farming
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cosmetic ingredients again so they don't say what they're growing but that's
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interesting and then south korea biospectrum which i think i've heard of,
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They are a supplier of herbal cosmetic ingredients used in commercial hydroponic towers.
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And so cosmetics is massive hydroponics. Who knew?
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And again, those companies like Ulay, they use hydroponics for fragrances.
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So perfumes, again, this is what we think of when we think of France, perfumes.
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And the luxury fragrance maker
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therminic have partnered with french vertical
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farm startup jungle to source vertically
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farmed flowers for perfume ingredients so around 20
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percent of the company's perfumes are planned to come from vertical farms so
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that's really interesting and then obviously when we're thinking about non-food
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crops we see ornamentals come into that but they're still horticulture so are
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you thinking about kenyan roses and they are grown hydroponically.
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So that's really interesting. I'm sure there are more companies out there for
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more obscure niche uses that are using hydroponics, but they're not making a big deal of it.
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It's probably intellectual property that they're keeping as know-how.
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But if you know of any, then please do let me know because I'd love to hear about it.
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If you thought this was an interesting podcast, it was short and sweet,
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it helps the podcast tremendously.
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And as always, make sure you click follow and check out
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utreema.co.uk if you can't spell utreema
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or you can't work out how to spell it just google
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wasabi because it is the genus name for wasabi
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scientific name and utreema.co.uk we
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make a range of fertilizers biostimulants and
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organic biopesticides that are unlike you'll
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find from any other company's portfolio we don't sell to other companies in
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hydroponics so if it's on our website it's completely unique and it's made by
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us and only supplied by us so it's definitely worth checking it out not just
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because it's a plug all right thank you very much for listening and until tomorrow goodbye.