Which Beauty Device, Digital Tech and Test Method/Tool Will Prevail in the 2025 C&T Allēs?

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Which beauty device, digital technology and test method/tool will prevail with a C&T Allē in 2025? Find out during our exclusive red carpet-style awards dinner, to be held on March 12, 2025, at the Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch, NJ, alongside our Beauty Accelerate event. Here are the finalists — check out their profiles.

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Ingredients Revealed: Building Transparency into Formulations from the Start, BASF

BASF's “Ingredients Revealed” digital service drives the transition of the personal care industry to greater transparency, offering more sustainable and ecologically conscious solutions that align with current consumer values. Due to its intuitive handling, the service offers an immersive customer experience that goes beyond traditional interfaces and accelerates the product development process. As part of BASF’s "D'Lite" digital service platform and “Beyond Beauty” campaign, "Ingredients Revealed" allows access to BASF's extensive formulation database and provides formulators a digital lab to identify and refine formulations to meet project targets and consumer needs.

Let's Make Beauty, Presperse

Let's Make Beauty by Presperse (LMB) serves as a digital interactive catalog for Presperse customers while also offering high quality cosmetic ingredients at quantities and pricing designed to meets the needs of emerging beauty brands and independent formulators. Our platform provides easy and instant access to regulatory documentation and prototype formulations. LMB features easy ingredient searches, allowing you to shop by application, ingredient function, labeling claims and ingredient benefits. By eliminating barriers to entry and fostering creativity, Let's Make Beauty by Presperse enables beauty industry innovators to bring their unique visions to life and scales with them as they grow

Measure it to Master it: Product Carbon Footprint, Croda Beauty

Croda Beauty has developed a tool to automate the calculation of cradle-to-gate product carbon footprints for the majority of its Beauty Care portfolio. The tool has been verified externally and is being used to analyze material hot spots within the company’s product portfolio. This analysis provides detailed insights, helping the company to identify areas where ingredients can be made more sustainable. This might involve changing the materials used or altering manufacturing processes. In summary, Croda's PCF initiative has not only driven reductions in carbon emissions, but has also catalyzed positive change across the industry, empowering partners and brands to make informed, sustainable decisions.

Perfect Complexion Finder by Wardah, Paragon Technology and Innovation

Perfect Complexion Finder by Wardah solves the challenge of accurately matching complexion makeup shades to the diverse skin tones of Indonesian women, a common issue with traditional visual assessments. The innovative system uses a portable color digitizer to analyze skin tones and generate personalized skin color codes based on a comprehensive database of Indonesian skin tones. Integrated across both online and in-store platforms, this technology enhances shade accuracy, promotes inclusivity and provides tailored, data-driven beauty recommendations. By improving the precision of shade matching, Wardah reaffirms its commitment to offering innovative, consumer-focused beauty solutions.

About the C&T Allēs 

The C&T Allē Awards, presented by C&T and parent company Allured Business Media, bring behind-the-scenes ingenuity in cosmetics and personal care R&D into the spotlight. The Allēs honor the scientific discipline, formulating skills, resourcefulness and creativity of innovators throughout the cosmetic product development process — from ingredient suppliers and finished product manufacturers, to test method/tool designers, digital tech developers and more. Learn more at www.AlleAwards.com

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