In-Cosmetics Asia: Lipotec wins Gold for the Innovation Zone Best Ingredient

Lipotec scooped Gold Innovation Zone Best Ingredient Awards for its Actigym marine product – fighting off competition from 10 shortlisted products.

The shortlisted products were chosen from amongst the many new ingredients on offer at the Innovation Zone of at In-Cosmetics Asia.

The Awards honour the development of novel actives or functional ingredients that combine scientific excellence, formulation benefits for manufacturers and efficacy for consumers when compared to other products currently available on the market.

Lipotec’s Actigym is designed to help consumers achieve greater body definition by enhancing adiponectin release and mitochondrial activity. It is obtained via biotechnology from a micro-organism found in Bermuda. The judging panel appreciated the company’s novel approach to both its research and efficacy testing in an area that has, until now, lacked true innovation.

Positioning the product as a “secret personal trainer”, Lipotec says the results are “spectacular” with contour reductions visible after 28 days of treatment on areas such as the abdomen, thighs or arms.

The judging panel comprised renowned experts in the sector including: Alain Khaiat from Seers Consulting, Karl Lintner from Kal’Idees, Jack Ferguson from Skinnovation Marc Pissavini from Coty-Lancaster Group.

Silver went to DSM with Valvance, a range of sensory and visual modifiers designed to deliver immediate perceived effects in both look and feel.

Taking joint Bronze were BASF with Tinosorb, an organic particulated UVB and UVAII absorber and Ichimaru Pharcos, who became the first Asian company to win an Innovation Zone award, for their natural whitening ingredient CinderellaCare, which can reduce kinesin expression in melanocytes.