What's New for 2026

Discover what’s new at SCS Formulate 2026. Exhibiting companies from across the personal care supply chain will be launching new ingredients, technologies and services, while others will be highlighting their established portfolios of trusted formulation solutions. Explore the latest exhibitor highlights below and start planning your visit.

Visit JS Held to learn how our regulatory compliance, product safety, and product stewardship experts help brands bring products to market globally. From EU and UK cosmetic compliance to MoCRA implementation, sustainability claims, ingredient reviews and regulatory due diligence, we provide practical solutions to support innovation while managing compliance risk.

Skin Care Formulation, Colour Cosmetics, Hair Care & Styling, Fragrance & Toiletries and Product Testing & Quality Control. Your Partner of Choice for Cosmetics Innovation – Atom Scientific have an extensive range of cosmetic ingredients, testing reagents, and lab equipment to support reliable and innovative product development.

Merritt Recruitment specialises in recruiting technical, commercial and regulatory professionals across the personal care and cosmetics sector. We support manufacturers and ingredient suppliers with roles including Cosmetic Scientists, Formulation Scientists, Technical Sales, Quality, Regulatory and Innovation professionals. We also help technical specialists transition into regulatory, compliance, commercial and leadership careers, connecting talent with leading employers across the industry.

Innospec offers a range of powdered surfactants that can be used to make solid formulations and concentrates enabling the reduction of water transportation. We are expanding the range across many chemistries for different applications: oral care, hair care, skin care, pet care and home care.

Sundial Blend 1: One Ingredient, Total Protection. Easy-to-Use UV Filter with broad spectrum UVB/UVA protection.
ChitoMyc H: Naturally derived vegan biopolymer film former for hair.

Azelis UK will be introducing “LET’S TALK”, a concept built around the conversations formulators are having today. Visitors will be able to explore key topics including texture, actives, sustainability, trends and colour through formulations, supplier innovations and hands-on demonstrations designed to spark discussion, inspiration and problem-solving.

Our concept for this year is K-Beauty, with a focus on lightweight, sensory textures, the pursuit of glass skin, and innovative, high-performance ingredients. The trend centres on 4 effective yet elegant formulations that deliver visible results while creating a luxurious user experience.

At SCS Formulate 2026, we’re celebrating 30 Years of Sensory Expertise. Visit the Gattefossé stand and experience our texture bars featuring expertly crafted formulations with distinctive sensory signatures. Discover trend-inspired concepts focused on longevity, skin barrier support and climate adaptation, alongside innovative formulations featuring our new active ingredient, Silkaress™. Inspired by the protective properties of silk, Silkaress™ helps defend skin against environmental stressors, strengthen resilience and support its natural adaptive capacity.

Biomimetic ECM: iECM is an ECM-supporting complex designed to help replenish and support key extracellular matrix components, including collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid. By combining recombinant structural proteins with a peptide-enhanced liposomal delivery system, it supports skin firmness, elasticity, hydration, and repair.

NEW – Light-catching optical pearl pigment technology. Unlike conventional pearls, this range features an inverted multilayer architecture that maximises light transmission and reflection. Its transparent titanium dioxide layer and ultra-pure mica deliver crystal-like sparkle, exceptional brilliance and vibrant colour purity.

Three major innovations at SCS Formulate 2026. Discover AlgaSurge™, our award-winning blue-biotech active offering a vegan alternative to traditional hyaluronic acid and PDRN. Explore the latest clinical results for Celyscence™, our natural longevity active, and Lysofix™ Liquid, our high-performance cold-process emulsifier for skin and hair care. Visit Lucas Meyer Cosmetics by Clariant to discover science-backed ingredients inspired by nature and biotechnology.

Biomimetic ECM: iECM is an ECM-supporting complex designed to help replenish and support key extracellular matrix components, including collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid. By combining recombinant structural proteins with a peptide-enhanced liposomal delivery system, it supports skin firmness, elasticity, hydration, and repair.

New additions to our clinically proven PhytaPure PRO Range of botanical active extracts. Blue Sky Botanics is excited to launch new additions to our PhytaPure PRO Range of clinically proven botanical active extracts. Created from respectfully sourced botanicals, and specially designed to deliver natural functionality in scalp health formulations.

Revive Eco is officially launching its upcycled coffee oil at SCS Formulate: a polyphenol- and fatty-acid-rich cosmetic ingredient produced at industrial scale through a patented green chemistry process, with >90% free radical inhibition per gram and Dermatest-verified tolerability on sensitive skin. Formulators can request trial samples on-stand, and the team is actively appointing distribution partners.

New and existing services for claims support and substantiation. Lucideon use advanced surface analytical methods to understand how personal care products interact with key consumer surfaces: teeth, hair, skin. This information can be used for marketing claims support as well as educating users. This also helps R&D, innovation and NPD teams with identifying and strengthening knowledge of ingredient/product mechanism of action and resulting benefits.

Discover our newest botanical partner at SCS Formulate 2026. Visit our stand to meet our latest partner in high-performance, on-trend botanical technologies and explore our expanding portfolio of speciality raw materials. We source, develop and distribute innovative ingredients for all personal care applications, offering bespoke, natural and sustainable alternatives from concept to launch.

New equipment- Volscan. Advanced 3D Hair Analysis

Don’t miss seeing our 2027-2028 Trends Report brought to life at SCS Formulate. We’ll be joined by 10 leading experts for a comprehensive and far-reaching view on what’s coming next for Global Trends and what they might mean for the products of the future. Discover your Trend Archetype, explore our enhanced and extended Sensory Bar, or speak to our free NPD consultant via The Beauty Curtain.