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INTERVIEW


A WORLD OF INNOVATION


Tim Probert – Editor, Personal Care Magazine


Editor Tim Probert caught up with representatives of leading personal care companies from around the world at in-cosmetics Global 2026 in Paris, France, to find out what’s new, what’s trending and what’s in their product pipelines. The full interviews can be watched online at our YouTube channel


Yann Chilvers Co-founder, Covalo


AI is changing the way people search and access knowledge online. Instead of keywords, searches are putting the problem at the centre. It is collapsing the time to insight and allow people to get answers much faster. The potential of the


Hélène


Muchico Marketing & communications manager, Silab


As our Silab Softcare department for compromised and sensitive skin celebrates its tenth anniversary, we are launching Cicactyl for skin needing to be repaired. It can act on different


steps of the healing process. It targets the proliferation phase of healing to aid the speed and performance of wound repair and tissue regeneration. The ingredient is derived from carob.


technology is amazing, it can do incredible things, but there are also limitations. The results are only as good as the data that the models are


built on and the prompts or questions asked. One of the critical skills


today is the ability of people to frame the question in the right way – not as if they had a human in front of them – and understanding how the technology really works. People also need detailed


knowledge about what they are doing to question the results and making sure the technology is trustworthy and correct.


The type of information


people are asking is getting more and more precise and detailed. People don’t rely on marketing claims, they want to see more clinical trial results, they want to have traceability. We get more questions about SCA and PCF.


Eloi


Armengol Strategy director, Provital


We are launching Intensilk, a new active ingredient focused on body care, especially for anti- cellulite. We believe it’s a good time right now for body care. We will have two more launches in the coming months. One will be launched at


in-cosmetics Latin America in Brazil in September, a hair care ingredient, the other will be launched at in-cosmetics Asia in November.


Alfons Hidalgo New technologies director, Qverse


Qverse is a start-up based in Barcelona working on natural biomimicking ingredients. We’ve built a massive library of marine and terrestrial microorganisms so, through fermentation, we can develop a number of active ingredients. We’ve launched four


new actives; one for PERSONAL CARE MAGAZINE June 2026 www.personalcaremagazine.com


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