This year's In-Cosmetics Global Awards, which was sponsored by Kenvue, saw a panel of up to 40 judges review a shortlist of 83 entries for the following categories: Innovation Zone Best Active Ingredient Award, the Innovation Zone Best Functional Ingredient Award, the Green Ingredient Award, the Kenvue Trusted Science Award, the Sustainable Stand Award, the Rising Star Award, the Sensory Bar Award, and the Make Up Bar Award.
As detailed in an event press release, the highly regarded Innovation Zone Best Active Ingredient Award and Innovation Zone Best Functional Ingredient Award attracted a record-number of entries this year, and winners included dsm-firmenich, Mibelle Biochemistry, and Evonik.
Kenvue, whose iconic brands include OGX, Aveeno, and Neutrogena, joined up to 40 other judges including representatives from Ecovia Intelligence, Coty, and Unilever in reviewing 83 short-listed entries for eight different prestigious categories.
BASF took home the Gold award for its Hydrasensyl Glucan Green in the Kenvue Trusted Science Award category, which celebrates innovative and effective modern ingredients that consumers can count on for everyday care.
Hydrasensyl Glucan Green is a bio-ferment with clinical results that demonstrate significant skin smoothing and hydrating benefits immediately and over time, according to the event's press release.
Evonik Industries’ TEGO FILMSTAR One MB snagged the Silver award for its 100% bio-based & biodegradable film former in the Kenvue Trusted Science Award category, which was one of two awards for Evonik during the event.
Lucas Meyer Cosmetics’ Immunight won Bronze in the Kenvue Trusted Science Award category for its green-processed oil-soluble lavandin extract that helps boosts nighttime skin recovery.
It's been a big year for Lucas Meyer Cosmetics, whose acquisition by sustainability-focused specialty chemicals company Clariant was announced earlier this month.
The Rising Star Award applauds new talent, recognizing first- and second-year exhibitors at the show. Kaffe Bueno is a Danish startup Kaffe Bueno won one of the two Rising Star Awards of the evening. The company specializes in creating upcycling coffee by-products and has created quite the buzz in the sustainable ingredients space.
SKINOSIVE, a science-driven dermo-cosmetics biotechnology company developing a technology platform in skin photoprotection, brought home the other Rising Star Award of the evening.
Celebrating ingredients that make a significant environmental or social difference was the Green Ingredient Award, in partnership with Ecovia Intelligence.
The 2024 Gold accolade was awarded to Boreal Bioproducts’ SpruceSugar ingredient, a biodegradable, grease barrier film-former, anionic surfactant, and low viscosity modifier, as detailed in the event's press release.
The Silver Green Ingredient Award, presented by Ecovia Intelligence's Amarjit Sahota, went to Ashland for its Perfectyl biofunctional, a high-tech chamomile extract, inspired by new aesthetic techniques, to clarify & smoothen skin flaws for all ethnicities, shared the event's press release.
20 by Lignovations, an eco-friendly multifunctional from upcycled lignin, took Bronze in the Green Ingredient Award category.
The winners of the in-cosmetics Global Make-Up Bar Award and Sensory Bar Award were decided live at the show this evening by judges from L'Oreal, Skinome, Ausmetix Pty Ltd., Sol de Janeiro, Martha Tilaar Group, and Light Years, as detailed in the event's press release.
The celebrated Gold award was given to international manufacturer of pearlescent and metallic effect pigments, ECKART GmbH, for its Trend Colors Autumn & Winter 2025/26. ECKART´s expertise in trend-forecasting, especially regarding colors and effects in make-up, is the key behind the 3 trend concepts for Autumn & Winter 2025/26, the press release confirmed.
Imerys Talc Europe's Matte lipstick ceremony, a lipstick enriched with ImerCare 400D (INCI: Diatomaceous earth) snagged the Silver in the Make-up Bar Award category.
The formulation gives lips a mattifying look while keeping a creamy effect.
In the Make-Up Bar Award category, Nikko Chemicals, global supplier of ingredients for cosmetics, won the Bronze award for 冷製美 (REI-SEI-BI)- Cold Process Beauty, the event's press release confirmed.
In the Functional Ingredients category, specialty chemicals leader, Evonik, secured first prize for its ECOHANCE Remo XP, a versatile and mild ingredient that functions as a rheology modifier, hydrophilic emollient and sensory enhancer.
The functional ingredient delivers efficient performance and can be utilized in a broad range of personal care applications, making it an excellent choice for brands that prioritize nature-derived and sustainable ingredients to create high-performing and environmentally conscious products, said the event's press release.
India-based surfactants and specialty care ingredients leader, Galaxy Surfactants Ltd. took Silver in the Functional Ingredients category of the Innovation Zone Best Ingredient Awards for its natural derma cleanser, Galseer DermaGreen.
Leading product design, development, and manufacturing partner, Lubrizol Life Science, took home the Bronze award for Carbopol Fusion S-20 polymer, its natural, inherently biodegradable, rheology modifier for cleansing systems.
Awarded Gold for the Innovation Zone Best Ingredient Award in the Active Ingredients category was raw materials and ingredients manufacturer, dsm-firmenich, for its ETERWELL YOUTH.
A true senolytic active made from Epilobium Fleischeri leaf/stem extract, the active ingredient boosts collagen, helps revert skin damage induced by zombie cells in excess, and helps slow down the premature ageing of skin, amongst other benefits.
Cosmetics ingredient supplier, Mibelle Biochemistry, secured the Silver award for RejuveNAD, an active ingredient which optimizes cellular functions to revitalize the skin by naturally boosting the longevity molecule, NAD+, said the event's press release.
According to the event's press release, CODIF TN was awarded Bronze for its REGETASTE, which strengthens the skin's barrier function, reducing desquamation and leaving skin smoother, softer, fresher and more radiant.
