The Laura Marshall Memorial Award for Innovation
10 Year Anniversary!
The Laura Marshall Awards at SCS Formulate celebrate innovation and excellence in cosmetic science. Marking its 10th anniversary in 2025, the award honours outstanding contributions to formulation development, inspiring creativity and scientific advancement. Named after Laura Marshall, it continues to recognise emerging talent and ground-breaking achievements in the industry.
Who is your winner?
With innovation in the personal care industry encompassing all aspects, from the latest formulation formats to new testing methods, innovative packaging formats, electronic advances and beyond, the Laura Marshall Award has been expanded this year to cover two categories:
Award 1: The Laura Marshall Award for Innovation – Sustainability and Ethics
Solutions that improve the world we live in
Award 2: The Laura Marshall Award for Innovation – Technology and Disruption
Ideas that push the boundaries and break the mould of the cosmetics industry
From the numerous entries submitted, the SCS panel of industry experts will select a shortlist.
The shortlisted companies for the Laura Marshall Award will present their innovations on the first day of SCS Formulate, with the winners announced at the SCS Annual Dinner!
The Laura Marshall Memorial Award was created in honour of our dear departed friend and colleague, who gave a lot of her time and experience to SCS Formulate and chaired the Scientific Programme Committee before she unexpectedly passed away in 2014.
The SCS decided to honour Laura’s contribution by creating a new award recognising innovation within the Personal Care and Cosmetic industry.
Innovation
Innovation encompasses all aspects of the industry from the latest formulation to new test methods, an innovative packaging format, electronic advances and beyond.
Eligibility
Those eligible to take part in the Laura Marshall Memorial Award Competition
- Paying Exhibitors
- One entry per Exhibitor
Judging
An independent panel of judges have been invited from all the many different areas of the industry, including academia, regulatory, manufacturing and consumer. They will select 10 finalists which will be on display at SCS Formulate where the final decision will be announced at the SCS Annual Dinner. The Finalists will present a show-board to promote and explain their innovation at the exhibition.
