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Does Your Product Belong Among the
C&T Allē Award
Elites? Enter the 2026 Program to Find Out
The
C&T Allē Awards
have a long history of recognizing excellence across the cosmetic landscape. Does your innovation have what it takes to join them? Enter now to find out.
Event Coverage
Rising to the Occasion: What it Means to Win a
C&T Allē Award
— Earn Your Standing Ovation in 2026
Event Coverage
Beyond the Hype:
C&T Allēs
Honor Beauty Innovation Through Scientific Rigor
Latest
Actives
3 Disruptive Concepts in 'Double Duty' Beauty
Beauty innovators have been rethinking dual-sided products in novel ways, enabled by creative packaging and formulating. Here, we highlight three examples.
Formulating Basics
Berg+Schmidt Charts a Course for Formulators with Texture & Sensory Compass
The digital tool categorizes formulation types, from milk to cream and butter, while linking them to corresponding sensory profiles.
Event Coverage
Supplier Innovations Wanted: Enter the 2026
C&T Allēs
to Showcase Your Beauty Breakthroughs
Calling all beauty and personal care suppliers! Enter the 2026
C&T Allē Awards
to spotlight your latest innovation. From actives to prototypes, test methods to ingredient blends — show the industry how you're shaping the future. Submissions now open!
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Sirtalice™ offers an instant lift and V-shape facial contour in only 30 min. Its long-lasting effects provide firmer, more luminous skin. Inspired by deep sea microorganisms, it gives an on-the-go, freezing blast to awaken skin and emit its true beauty.
Sun Care
Mastering Zinc Oxide Formulation: A Primer on Overcoming Challenges for Superior Sun Protection
This primer outlines tips and tricks to help product developers master formulating with ZnO. Topics range from the impact of formula formats, importance of processing and influence of particle choice, to pH optimization and stability.
Methods/Tools
Technical Theories and Tools to Leverage Polyol Properties for Smarter Makeup Remover Design
This article describes tools such as organic conceptual diagrams, Hansen solubility parameters and alcohol classes to study polyol dynamics for smarter makeup remover design. Effects on CMC, cloud point and other functional benefits are also considered.
Formulating Basics
Grant Design Gallery: Revolutionizing Personal Care Product Development
Grant Industries' Grant Design Gallery is an innovation hub that streamlines personal care product development by combining science and creativity in a collaborative environment.
People
In Memoriam: Karl Laden, Ph.D.
We sadly announce the passing of Karl Laden, Ph.D., a veteran of the cosmetics and personal care industry for 65+ years. He worked in R&D for numerous companies, won several industry awards and was a columnist and advisor to
Cosmetics & Toiletries
.
Color Cosmetics
Product Spotlight: Wet N' Wild Megaglo Makeup Stick with Vitamin E
Blended with soothing and antioxidant-rich vitamin E, the product is designed to leave skin looking and feeling beautiful and radiant while concealing, highlighting, contouring and adding color.
Formulating Basics
Formulating Forum: Anti-Stress and Well-Aging Cosmetics
The well-aging trend is reshaping beauty, emphasizing the need to care for and maintain vitality, appearance and overall health at any age. Effective anti-stress and well-aging cosmetics are fundamental to supporting this wave; examples are provided here.
Sun Care
Formulating Forum: ‘Retrofitting’ Sunscreens to Market Demands
This article briefly reviews sunscreens raising recent concern and related regulatory actions. It also proposes approaches to adapt formulas to the limitations imposed by both regulations and market demand.
