Cosmetics & Toiletries

From groundbreaking cosmetic ingredients to cutting-edge beauty devices, this year’s finalists represent the pinnacle of creativity, science and vision in cosmetics R&D.

Meet the 2026 C&T Allē Awards Finalists – Trailblazers in Beauty Innovation

The 2026 C&T Allē Awards are just around the corner, celebrating the trailblazers of beauty innovation on May 18, 2026, in NYC. This year’s finalists represent the pinnacle of creativity, science and vision. Meet this year's contenders.

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Why Biomimetic Vegan Collagen is the Future of Beauty Innovation + Free Webinar

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10 New Frontiers in Beauty: Highlights from the 2025 In-Cosmetics Asia Innovation Zone — Plus APAC Goes Green [EXCLUSIVE REPORTS]

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How Ashland's X-Tend 226 Ester Unlocks Sun Care Stability: Solving UV Filter Crystallization

The proprietary polar ester is distinguished by its high solubilizing capacity for solid organic UV filters.

Croda is bringing new ingredient tech to Paris this spring.

Inside Croda’s Ingredient Lineup for in-cosmetics Global

A central focus of Croda Beauty Actives’ presence is a new addition to its Matrixyl peptide range.

Beyond Clean Beauty: Biomimetic Collagen for Next-Level Skin Care

Beyond Clean Beauty: Biomimetic Collagen for Next-Level Skin Care

This webcast will reveal how human skin-identical collagen polypeptides, designed through advanced biotechnology, can reinforce ECM integrity and provide advanced dermal rejuvenation.

The timing matters. Osmo reports that in 2025 its AI-first platform reportedly generated more published fragrance ingredient patents than all major industry players combined.

Osmo Raises $70M to Scale AI-Powered Olfaction, Signaling a New Era for Fragrance Discovery

The capital will fuel the scale-up of Osmo’s proprietary Olfactory Intelligence platform, which digitizes the entire fragrance lifecycle.

The company has already advanced its first INCI submission, clearing a regulatory path for formulators.

Carbon-to-Cream: Savor Leverages Food-Tech Platform to Enter Beauty Ingredients

Using proprietary thermochemical processes and inputs like captured CO₂, green hydrogen and methane, Savor can tune fatty acid profiles for consistency and performance, a persistent pain point for plant-derived oils.

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JAKA Biotech's Anglysin IB Targets AGEs for Brighter Skin

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Ashland's Rosaliss Biofunctional for Skin's Self-Repair

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Mibelle Biochemistry's SenoCellTec Skin Rejuvenator

Despite Pantone's color of the year being Cloud Dancer white, beauty is getting bolder.

Editor's Note: Beauty's Bold New Face in 2026

Despite Pantone's color this year being Cloud Dancer white, beauty is getting bolder and bio-based. In fact, bio-beauty tops my list of trends to watch — and dermocosmetics, a major theme in this issue, have been at the forefront of bio-beauty.

Results suggested the ingredient increases natural antioxidant defenses to reduce cellular oxidative stress, inhibits one of the main proinflammatory pathways, and ultimately breaks the oxi-inflammatory loop generated by environmental aggressions at the lipid level.

Sea Buckthorn to Calm Oxi-Inflammatory Assault in Sensitive Skin

A sea buckthorn leaf extract was developed to calm the oxi-inflammatory environment induced by exposome assaults, to protect epidermal lipids and to soothe sensitive skin. A model mimicking lipoperoxidation in the epidermis was used to assess its effects.

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Cocoa's Sweet Defense: Revolutionary Photoprotection Beyond UV

Photodamage prevention requires protection beyond UV. A responsibly sourced peptide-rich cocoa extract was thus developed to provide antioxidant protection against UV and blue light and improve skin tone evenness in all ethnicities, as shown here.