Nine personal care ingredient makers have formed the Circular Cosmetic Collective (CCC) to promote upcycled, biotech and circular solutions.
The CCC comprises nine founding members: COLIPI, Gaia Tech, Innomost, Kaffe Bueno, Lignopure, NoPalm Ingredients, Origin by Ocean, Swedish Algae Factory and The Upcycled Beauty Company.
The CCC will support brands, formulators and decision-makers seeking practical ways to integrate circular ingredients into product development and to communicate their value with confidence.
Through their work, the CCC founding members transform diverse waste and side streams into high-performance ingredients for beauty and personal care, challenging conventional linear approaches and reinforcing that circular solutions can deliver both formulation performance and ingredient innovation.
Building on this shared expertise, the CCC provides a platform for knowledge-sharing and education, helping bring greater clarity, transparency and credibility to circular ingredient innovation and supporting its practical application across the industry.
The CCC is designed to respond to a growing need for transparency in an industry navigating sustainability claims, regulatory expectations and increasing innovation complexity.
“What brings the members of the CCC together is the understanding that we can achieve greater impact by acting collectively,” says founding member Noomi Mikkelsen.
“By standing together, we are better positioned to support the industry’s transition towards circularity and to make circular ingredient solutions more accessible and easier to work with in practice.”
The CCC will make its industry debut at in-cosmetics Global 2026, where it will be showcased within the new Upcycling Hub in the Sustainability Area.
Visitors will be able to meet the collective’s members and explore a range of circular ingredient technologies for beauty and personal care formulations.
For more information about the CCC, visit its website at https://www.circularcosmetic.com/.
