Special Awards
Iconic Beauty Award
Iconic Beauty Award
La Mer
The Moisturizing Soft Cream
Designed to renew skin’s barrier, The Moisturizing Soft Cream looks to strengthen and protect while reducing the look of fine, dry lines. Miracle Broth—the healing elixir formulated into all La Mer products—aims to infuse skin with sea-sourced renewing energies.
Iconic Beauty Award
beautyblender
THE ORIGINAL BEAUTYBLENDER Makeup Sponge
Designed to achieve a flawless blend, this edgeless, reusable, high-definition cosmetic sponge applicator is made with exclusive aqua-activated material. It looks to provide an airbrushed application and absorb minimal product, so more of your product lands onto complexions as opposed to sponges. Made in America, latex-free, vegan, the Original Beautyblender is even featured in an exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
Iconic Beauty Award
Bumble and bumble
Surf Spray
This salt-infused styling spray looks to create to light hold for matte texture and a windblown, sexy, sun-dried feel. Designed for wavy hair types, it looks to add body to fine hair, and lift at the roots. Kelp and seaweed extracts are added for moisture and manageability.
Iconic Beauty Award
CeraVe
Hydrating Facial Cleanser
Created for normal to dry skin, this cleanser looks to cleanse skin of dirt, makeup, and more without stripping the skin of moisture or disrupting its natural protective barrier. Developed with dermatologists, the formula features three essential ceramides and hyaluronic acid that aim to retain skin moisture, as the non-irritating formula is designed to cleanse without leaving skin feeling tight or dry.
Iconic Beauty Award
Josie Maran Cosmetics
100% Pure Argan Oil
Featuring just one ingredient in this formula—pure, organic, argan oil—this product looks to nourish and condition, absorb easily into skin, intensely hydrate and leave behind a dewy glow. Argan oil is a source of all three essential fatty acids (omega 3, 6, 9) which are known to counter the loss of firmness and help boost the appearance of skin's elasticity, as well as antioxidants and vitamin E. This multi-tasker is designed to be used all over the body, on the face, on nails, on hair, and on the lips.
Iconic Beauty Award
Laura Mercier
Translucent Loose Setting Powder
A lightweight loose powder, it looks to blend effortlessly and to set makeup for up to 16 hours. Formulated with vitamin C and E powders and botanical blurring powders, it looks to blur the look of pores and absorb excess oil. This powder aims to lock in makeup for long-lasting wear without adding weight or texture.
Iconic Beauty Award
Moroccanoil
Treatment
Created to be the foundation for hairstyling, Moroccanoil Treatment can be used as a conditioning, styling, and finishing tool. Formulated with argan oil and vitamins, this hair treatment aims to detangle, speed up drying time, and boost shine. It looks to leave consumers with nourished, manageable, and smooth hair with each use.
Iconic Beauty Award
Neutrogena
Norwegian Formula Hand Cream, Fragrance-Free
This concentrated lotion formula is designed to rapidly heal dry hands and noticeably improve the look and feel of skin. It aims to leave hands feeling soft and smooth after just one application. One tube produces 200 applications, and just a dab looks to heal dry and rough hands.
Iconic Beauty Award
SK-II
PITERA Essence
Essentially unchanged for 40 years, Pitera Essence is the brand’s signature and most-awarded best seller. Aiming to give crystal clear skin, it’s formulated with more than 90% Pitera. SK-II Pitera Essence is loved by millions of women around the world.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Symrise Inc.
SymHair Thermo
This sustainably-sourced, 100% natural, vegan heat protection hair care active is sourced from mushrooms. It’s also infused with hyaluronic acid and polysaccharides sourced from mushrooms. In terms of benefits, this ingredient looks to protect hair from heat damage (flat ironing, blow-drying, etc.) and maintain style longer, especially in high humidity. It also aims to be a silicone replacement for hair care formulations.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
BASF Corporation
Seanactiv
The eye area is the first part of the body to reveal visible evidence of fatigue, stress, unhealthy lifestyle, and aging. Dark circles, crow’s feet and dull skin are widely perceived to be telltale signs. By leveraging the power of fucoidan, Seanactiv™ aims to have a quick and positive effect on diminishing both signs of eye fatigue and aging of the eye area. Seanactiv™ looks to contribute to the reduction of dark circles and help to reduce wrinkles. The sustainable algae extract furthermore aims to support the improvement of the overall skin luminosity of the eye area.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Clariant
Berashades
Consumers' demand for cosmetic products that help in their routine with more than one benefit only increases, driving the market towards multifunctional ingredients. At the same time, Clean Beauty is no longer just a niche trend, but a constant search from consumers around the world for natural and sustainable ingredients with proven efficacy. To meet these market expectations we bring Berashades, a new range of clays with proven efficacy. These natural actives are multifunctional due to their properties of maintaining the skin balance by hydrating and improving skin barrier function, in addition to promoting firmness. Thanks to their stable structure, homogeneity, and dispersion, Berashades can be easily incorporated in formulations.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Croda Inc
ChromaPur
Developed from a patented technology, ChromaPur CV2 & CV7 are high quality Carboxylated Cellulose Nanocrystals, converted into a micron sized powder with a unique surface structure and morphology. Therefore, as 100% natural, biodegradable, vegan cellulose powders with exceptionally versatile properties, they look to provide a sustainable and functional alternative to plastic microbeads and help to tackle plastic pollution concerns. ChromaPur CV2 & CV7 offer numerous benefits; they aim to deliver a blurring effect on the skin and a luxurious appearance from makeup products, making them ideal for various skin care and color cosmetic applications.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Croda Inc
Nutrinvent Balance
Plant-derived and vegan, Nutrinvent Balance is a novel encapsulate that looks to ensure the targeted and controlled delivery of actives to the scalp to aim to effectively reduce sebum production, with a consumer-perceivable improvement in scalp oiliness. It looks to provide a result of hair that looks and feels cleaner for longer.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Geltor, Inc.
Elastapure
Elastin brings the gift of elasticity through its unique ability as a protein to stretch and recoil. Through Elastapure®, Geltor has looked to unlock the world’s only pure human elastin ingredient for personal care, available in unmatched purity and biosimilarity to native human elastin. The ingredient is available in 2% solution and powder form, with antioxidant properties and high uniformity and purity compared to animal-derived elastins.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Lucas Meyer Cosmetics
Anti-Glyc-Aging Zinc Screen
Inspired by consumer demand for multifunctional mineral sunscreen, this ingredient looks to deliver a theoretical SPF 30 and harness the photoprotective properties of pink algae. It includes IBR-SolAge™, which aims to fight glycation-induced aging. This soft, light-textured formula is sheerly tinted and is designed to minimize the whitening effect of the non-nano zinc oxide. It has a smooth matte finish yet delivers hydration to the skin due to inclusion of Heliofeel™ 22 MB, shea butter, and propanediol.
Ingredients And Formulation - Presented by NYSCC
Silab Inc
Peptilium
Combining efficacy, transversality and safety, PEPTILIUM® is a premium natural active ingredient for a global anti-aging treatment when aiming for excellence. Rich in natural biopeptides purified to 95%, it is obtained from the co-product of cranberry, from a traceable and responsible supply chain in Quebec that respects the practices of sustainable development. By targeting the three compartments of the skin, it aims to strengthen the epidermal barrier function, improve the quality of the dermal-epidermal junction and of the dermal matrix.
Sustainability Excellence Award - Presented by Firmenich
Sustainability Excellence Award - Presented by Firmenich
BL+
BL+ is going above and beyond when it comes to sustainable beauty product formulation. One of BL+’s core ingredients is the BL+ COPLEX, a blend of sustainably sourced bioactives combining Blue Lagoon microalgae and silica unique to the Icelandic natural wonder, the Blue Lagoon. The unique complex is created through BL+ groundbreaking carbon-capture method, a process where natural CO2 produced during geothermal energy production is captured and fed to the Blue Lagoon microalgae, going beyond the scope of simply being carbon neutral.
Sustainability Excellence Award - Presented by Firmenich
Caudalie
Caudalie has been on a sustainability mission long before the conversation started. Since being established in 1995, the luxury skin care brand, best known for its vinotherapy products, has created an eco-friendly facility to house its laboratories, offices, and warehouses entirely powered by solar and geothermal energy. For over a decade, Caudalie has been one of the leading contributors to 1% For The Planet and in doing so has compensated their carbon footprint four times over.
Sustainability Excellence Award - Presented by Firmenich
Evolvetogether
Evolve Together started as a hero brand amid the pandemic by offering affordable and highly effective personal protective equipment that is highly recyclable. The brand went on to create equally ethical and enjoyable body and skin care products featuring ethically sourced ingredients formulated in environmentally friendly production sites. The brand has some of the most sustainable packaging in the beauty industry with containers, bags, and wrappers that can be reused, refilled, dissolved, or recycled.
Sustainability Excellence Award - Presented by Firmenich
Izzy Zero Waste Beauty
Izzy Zero Waste Beauty is one of the first beauty lines to be completely waste-free. The innovative brand was founded by beauty industry legend Shannon Goldberg to help create a cleaner, brighter future for her daughter. The products are completely cruelty-free, recyclable, reusable, and 100 percent certified CarbonNeutral. The brand goes further to help the cause of sustainability by donating a portion of the proceeds to the National Forest Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to leading forest conservation efforts in the U.S.
Sustainability Excellence Award - Presented by Firmenich
Lumene
Lumene is leading the way in creating truly sustainable packaging and became one of the first beauty brands to be able to sell water-based cosmetics in sustainable packaging. The primary issue in doing so was the fast evaporation of moisture-based formulations, reducing the products’ shelf-life drastically. Lumene solved the issue by packaging products in sulalpac-based jars, made of biodegradable and micro-plastic free material made entirely from renewable sources and certified wood. The inner lining of the jar consists of the world’s first barrier technology for cosmetics that protects the product and, in contact with natural microbes, eventually falls apart without leaving waste behind.
Sustainability Excellence Award - Presented by Firmenich
Mustela
When it comes to creating sustainable and ethical beauty products, oftentimes not much thought has been given to the safety of the ingredients for mothers and young children specifically. The French family-owned brand has been ensuring the safety of products for families since 1950 when it created the very first cleansing milk specifically designed for babies’ sensitive skin. Over 70 years later, the brand is B-Corp certified and has 100 percent responsible plant supply chains, with products that contain an average of 95 percent ingredients of natural origin.
