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At Croda Beauty, we’re innovating for a beautiful world, one experience at a time. With a commitment to innovation, we craft sustainable high-performance ingredients that redefine beauty standards, set trends, and surpass expectations. Our dedication to excellence and innovation drives us to develop ingredients that not only meet evolving customer needs but exceed them.
With cutting-edge technology and capabilities in functional ingredients, actives, and botanicals, along with our extensive formulation expertise, we can help you to stand out in a competitive market and build an enduring brand in the global beauty industry.
Innovation and sustainability are at the heart of Croda Beauty, and this is reflected in all of our personal care ingredients and formulations. Throughout our history, our skin, sun, colour, and hair care technologies have been thought leaders, creating unique and patented technologies in both functional and effective ingredients.
Designed to answer the very latest personal care trends, our formulation and technology expertise allows us to be more than just a sustainable personal care ingredient supplier to our partners.
Croda Beauty is a world leader in the field of bioactive ingredients, and over the last 50 years, we have developed a unique range of active ingredients with efficacy for skin care (anti-ageing, moisturising, sebum control, etc) as well as hair care, colour cosmetics, and body care. We have more than 30 years of experience in cosmetic peptide synthesis, and our peptides, particularly Matrixyl™ have been the industry standard for anti-ageing actives ingredients and one of the rare ingredient names that is recognised by consumers. As a leading in cosmetic active ingredient manufacturing, one of our main concerns is sustainability and as such, we have spent more than 35 years developing biotechnology to product molecules of interest in quantities, without causing any damage to the environment.
We have more than 40 years of experience as botanical extraction specialists, with production capability and various eco-designed plant extraction technologies that allow us to extract the best of the plant and supply a large catalogue of ingredients that answer current market needs. Our range of botanical extracts continuously evolves according to the latest trends and customer-specific requests, staying close to consumers’ needs. We develop high-quality plant extracts according to our eco-responsible production strategy at every stage of the manufacturing process. From ecological production to resource and waste management, our unique process respects both people and the environment.
Building beauty for the better
Sustainability is a priority for Croda Beauty and, along with every Croda business, we have made the bold Commitment to be Climate, Land, and People Positive by 2030. We will achieve this through our product innovation, sourcing, and manufacturing. We are not just setting the targets but driving for change.
The partnerships we build with our suppliers are paramount, and we are developing pathways to source locally, reducing our environmental impact, and supporting local farmers. As we move towards a predominantly biobased portfolio, we want to understand and respect the pivotal role of nature and diversity, and we do this through collaboration with respected groups.
Since 2019, we have had 14 field verifications performed by the UEBT within our botanicals supply chain. UEBT members, including Croda Le Perray, commit to ensuring that sourcing practices advance sustainable business growth, local development, and biodiversity conservation.
Using plant biotechnology, we can produce active cosmetics ingredients with substantiated efficacy and guaranteed reproducibility while significantly limiting our impact on biodiversity. We have also developed an externally verified Life Cycle Assessment tool, with which we are conducting both cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave assessments on our ingredients.
With decarbonisation roadmaps in place for every global site, whether a manufacturing plant or an office, we are serious about reducing our carbon emissions. We are continually improving our manufacturing processes, and we have calculated the carbon footprint of circa 1,500 products within the Croda Beauty portfolio. This has given us improved insight into where we need to focus our carbon emission reduction strategies at ingredient level, as well as offering enhanced transparency for our customers.
To find out more about our impact, click HERE, and to learn about what Croda is doing to make that impact, and how we can help you on your own decarbonisation journey, click HERE.
Our latest product launches
Our extensive range of quality hair care ingredients is consumer-inspired, sustainability-driven, and science-based to satisfy the diverse and complex needs of the modern consumer.
KeraBio™ K31 is a brand-new biotech-powered biomimetic bond builder with pure, potent performance. It delivers a vegan keratin recharge at the molecular level, elevating hair strength beyond repair.
Our range of over 200 innovative active ingredients for the cosmetics and personal care industry has proven efficacy and safety profiles to meet emerging consumer demands.
Zenakine™ is our latest neurocosmetic innovation designed to restore emotional balance and enhance skin vitality. Clinically proven to boost happiness by 13.5%, improve sleep quality in just two weeks, and visibly reduce signs of fatigue, Zenakine is where skin care meets self-care.
Our deep appreciation for nature serves as an endless source of inspiration for our natural cosmetics ingredients. We have more than 40 years of botanical extraction expertise, including pioneering new and proprietary extraction techniques that are more sustainable and preserve more of the active and useful molecules of our botanicals.
Modern life often leaves skin looking as tired as we feel and inspired by the energising power of morning coffee, we have developed Phytessence™ Green Coffee EC to help reawaken and revitalise the skin. This COSMOS organic-certified botanical extract, quantified in caffeine, supports skin elasticity, reduces visible signs of fatigue, and enhances positive emotions for optimal wellbeing.
We develop innovative skin care ingredients based on evolving consumer trends and the latest scientific knowledge. We have a wide spectrum of sustainable, market-ready ingredients for use in anti-ageing, cleansing, moisturising, shaving and complexion-enhancing formulations. 
An ultra-mild sophorolipid biosurfactant produced via biotechnology, NatraFusion™ SL HA offers an alternative to traditional surfactant chemistries used in personal care applications. When used as a co-surfactant, NatraFusion SL HA offers synergistic mildness and cleansing boosting benefits, with no detrimental impact upon foam production.
With our innovative sun care ingredients and formulation expertise we are the leading supplier of mineral sunscreen dispersions. 
Our Solaveil™ Titanium (TiO2) and Zinc Oxide (ZnO) UV actives are the ideal mineral filters for your formulation. Available as powders and dispersions, these safe and natural mineral filters have various particle sizes and are designed to enable you to meet diverse consumer needs and global regulatory requirements.
We have an extensive portfolio of ingredients that can be explored in our Product Finder, using filters such as category, application, trends, benefits and much, much more!
Our fragrance houses, Parfex and Iberchem, offer a wide range of on-trend, unique, and sustainable fragrance options to meet the evolving needs of the beauty industry.
At Croda Beauty, we can offer a complete formulation solution with functional, active and botanical ingredients as well as fragrances from Iberchem and Parfex. Our formulation expertise showcases how all of our ingredients synergistically combine to offer complete sustainable solutions and a broad range of formulations that are sure to inspire! Check out our Formulation Finder for formulation inspiration, as well as our new Emollients Guide, designed to help you to find the right emollient for your next beauty innovation.
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Have you seen the blog section on our website? Each week we provide blog content from our global team presenting the latest industry news, trending topics, new innovations and much more. We bring you closer to our experts in sales, technical and marketing who share their thoughts and opinions on topics shaping the beauty and personal care industry.
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About Croda International Plc
Croda Beauty is the dedicated to personal care branch of Croda, a specialty chemicals company that creates high performance ingredients and solutions principally for the Consumer Care and Life Sciences markets. Established 100 years ago in 1925 and headquartered in the UK, Croda is a FTSE 100 company with over 5,800 employees across 92 locations in 39 countries.
As the name behind some of the world’s most successful brands, we combine our knowledge, passion, and entrepreneurial spirit to develop and supply innovative ingredients relied on by industries and consumers around the world. Our smart science is found in products that touch our lives every day from sun protection to life-saving pharmaceuticals, and formulations that enhance crop yields.
With a shared purpose to use Smart science to improve lives™, and with around two thirds of its organic raw materials already from bio-based sources, Croda has committed to be the most sustainable supplier of innovative ingredients, becoming Climate, Land and People Positive by 2030, while providing solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges.
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