{"id":566,"date":"2025-07-31T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:02:54","slug":"scottish-scientists-reuse-spent-coffee-grounds-to-create-cosmetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/scottish-scientists-reuse-spent-coffee-grounds-to-create-cosmetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish scientists reuse spent coffee grounds to create cosmetics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scientists in Scotland have used spent coffee grounds collected at the Glasgow Coffee Festival to produce new cosmetic products.<\/h4>\n

Revive Eco, based at BioCity Glasgow, used the coffee grounds collected at the Festival to create a coffee skin oil.<\/p>\n

Revive says it has secured \u00a3350k in investment, including through a crowdfunding campaign, and will be raising more money next year to allow it to scale up production.<\/p>\n

Revive Eco is one of 20 life science businesses at BioCity, a 26-acre site 13 miles east of Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the new product, Scott Kennedy, Co-founder and Director of Revive Eco, said: \u201cTonnes of coffee grounds are thrown out every day, despite the value and the different potential uses of the oil they contain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reaction to our products has been great and a real demonstration of how we can offer an alternative to palm or coconut oil, whose use in cosmetics has had such a devastating impact on some of the world\u2019s ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Revive Eco\u2019s founders Fergus Moore (left) and Scott Kennedy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kennedy and his fellow co-founder Fergus Moore first identified the potential of coffee waste when they were students at the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n

Revive was launched as a business in 2015 and relocated to BioCity six years later, where it has received support from Pioneer, Scottish Enterprise, Zero Waste Scotland, and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Revive\u2019s scientists finalised and patented their upcycling process, and earlier this year, a successful pilot project took place with French company SAS Pivert using grounds supplied by Costa Coffee.<\/p>\n

Moore says the next step is to work with a partner to produce coffee oil on a commercial level.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpent coffee grounds have always been just the first step for us,\u201d Moore said. \u201cOur goal is to demonstrate that we can create value and positive environmental impact from a range of different waste streams.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Mackenzie, Director (Scotland) at Pioneer Group, commented: \u201cThe work of Revive is so important in demonstrating that any ambition for a circular economy is not pie in the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis unlikely union of waste and skincare just shows what can be achieved with great imagination, fantastic science and a lot of hard work by Scott, Fergus and the rest of the Revive team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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