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Jun 17th, 2024

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Rising to the Occasion: What it Means to Win a C&T Allē Award — Earn Your Standing Ovation in 2026

"We are profoundly grateful to the C&T team for acknowledging our efforts, which motivates us to persist in pushing boundaries and revolutionizing the cosmetics industry."

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Beyond the Hype: C&T Allēs Honor Beauty Innovation Through Scientific Rigor

We've established comprehensive scientific evaluation criteria for the 2026 C&T Allē Awards, ensuring innovations are assessed through evidence-based methodology that honors the technical rigor driving beauty industry breakthroughs.

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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.

Unispheres®: Visual Ingredients that Awaken Emotion and Elevate Perception

Unispheres®: Visual Ingredients that Awaken Emotion and Elevate Perception

Givaudan Active Beauty augments the power of Unispheres®. Rooted in Swiss engineering excellence, this high-precision visualization system goes beyond aesthetics to become a true performance perception amplifier, deepening consumer engagement.

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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!

'The impact will differ between different brands, but for us, it's pushing us even closer to our R&D roots. We're doubling down on developing truly innovative products, focusing on the best, most efficacious ingredients.' —Chemist Confessions

Innovating Beauty Amid Global Trade Uncertainties

The key to resilience lies in understanding and responding to the impacts of tariffs on costs, demand and competitive positioning. Learn more here.

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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.

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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.

Grant Industries' Design Gallery: A cutting-edge innovation hub where science meets creativity, enabling real-time product development for personal care brands.

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.

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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.

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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.