What is microbiome claims testing?

Microbiome claims testing evaluates how a product affects the skin’s natural microbial environment using clinical studies, sequencing, and analysis to support claims related to microbiome balance, diversity, and skin health.

What types of microbiome testing does Validated Claim Support provide?

Validated Claim Support provides microbiome testing services including clinical studies, microbial sequencing, skin microbiome analysis, efficacy testing, and claims substantiation to evaluate product impact on microbial balance.

How does microbiome testing help support marketing claims?

Microbiome testing generates scientific data that supports claims related to microbiome balance, improved skin barrier, and overall skin health, ensuring claims are accurate, defensible, and compliant with industry standards.

Who should use microbiome claims substantiation services?

Microbiome claims testing is ideal for skincare brands, cosmetic companies, and personal care product manufacturers that want to validate microbiome-related claims and differentiate their products with scientific evidence.

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Microbiome Claim Support

The Microbiome is a particularly trendy area of research for skincare, cosmetic, haircare and body care products alike. For years products like toners, soaps, and body washes have been focused on their ability to kill bacteria and reduce oil without any consideration of the other “good tenants” that reside on the skin and how they are being impacted.

Validated Claim Support has a strategic partnership with Sequential, Diversigen and DNA Genotek, who have been at the forefront of pioneering microbiome discovery, sample collection, and research for a number of years.

Not all the Guests Residing on your Body are Uninvited

By combining our clinical and analytical expertise, we provide a unique value proposition that allows for considerable cost savings and unique scientific claim substantiation.

Industry Leading Custom Microbiome Collection Kits

Through DNA Genotek’s cutting-edge collection kits, it’s possible for VCS to streamline the clinical sampling of saliva, surface, or gut-based microbiome through a wide range of products.

Thanks to the strategic partnership between DNA Genotek and Diversigen, VCS has a unique position in clinical claim support that can bridge the gap between high-end RNA/DNA analysis and consumer-facing claims.

Cutting Edge DNA Sequencing and Reporting

With substantial sequencing and computing capacity, our partnership allows for completely custom strategies, tailored claim support and analytical packages.

Diversigen can provide a wide range of services, including but not limited to:

Strain Analysis – Comprehensive strain-bank profiling of bacterial isolates
Deep Shotgun Sequencing – Lets you uncover functional signatures and explore the rarest members of a microbiome
Shallow Shotgun Sequencing – An approach that’s first class, accurate shallow shotgun sequencing that provides you with a boost of data with functional profiling and profiles that are species-level not given by amplicon sequencing
Amplicon Sequencing – A low-bias and optimized approach to amplicon sequencing of fungi and bacteria

By properly positioning your product you can boost sales, increase consumer awareness, differentiate your product among a swarm of competitors, support your profitability with robust clinical data, and most importantly have the confidence that your studies were handled in a professional, secure, and trustworthy fashion.

Every sequencing project comprises our complimentary Core Analysis™ report in which you’ll get fully annotated all raw data, interactive visualizations, and data tables.

CorePlus™ Analysis enables our expert bioinformaticians to help you make new discoveries. Through fully-customizable data analysis, trusted methodologies, and combining robust with novel approaches, we help our clients in going from hypotheses to the utilization of actionable data.

For more examples of Diversigen’s core sequencing and analysis techniques, please visit their website or inquire with our sales team.