Symrise AG : One Decade Filled with Innovation. 10Y BSB Award Goes to Symrise with Three More Cosmetics Prizes in 2012

This year Symrise received a special prize. The company was honored for its achievements in the cosmetics industry with the 10Y BSB Award in the category "Most Innovative Company of the Last Decade." The extensive innovation work of the Life Essentials team from Symrise convinced the jury. Actipone® Woods, SymSol® PF-3 and Frescolat® X-cool received prizes too.

The persistent search for new cosmetics ingredients results in products that advance skin care and enhance beauty. For ten years, the BSB Award has been presented to companies and products that have noticeably improved the cosmetics industry. Symrise is one such company and has taken home one of the special prizes and three more awards in various categories this year.

BSB Award for the "Most Innovative Company of the Last Decade"

In the past ten years, Symrise has received nine BSB awards in various subcategories within the "Most Innovative Raw Material" category . The jury therefore awarded Symrise the prize for the "Most Innovative Company of the Last Decade."

"It is a great honor for us to receive an award for our innovative work over the past ten years," said Dr. Klaus Stanzl, President Life Essentials at Symrise, who was presented with the BSB Award for the "Most Innovative Company of the Last Decade." "Consumers today are looking for more natural and sensorial products to use. They want to branch out from their normal, daily routines. The broad palette of our ingredients developed over the last ten years - many of them honored by the BSB - will enable our customers to develop outstanding finished products with new properties that will meet consumer demands."

The company's award-winning innovation continues in 2012 with three more prizes for Symrise:

Second Prize for Actipone® Woods:
Most Innovative Raw Material - Natural Products

To effectively market a product it needs two things: convincing scientific data combined with an excellent marketing concept. Actipone® Woods excels in both areas, winning it a second prize as "Most Innovative Raw Material" in the "Natural Products" category.

Many woods contain antioxidant ingredients such as tannins, flavonoids and phenolic acids. These can help to bind free radicals in our cells and thus can have a skin-protecting and anti-aging effect. The Actipone® Woods series comprises extracts from ash wood, honey locust wood, sweet cherry wood and walnut tree wood. Each of them is linked to an inspiring marketing concept.

Second Prize for SymSol® PF-3:
Most Innovative Raw Material - Functionals

To give cosmetics a smooth and homogeneous texture, some of their components need to be solubilized. SymSol® PF-3 does this without using PEG. "It thus closes the gap between existing solubilizers," the jury explained in its eulogy, awarding it a second prize as "Most Innovative Raw Material" in the "Functionals" category.

So far, PEG solutions have dominated the solubilizer market due to their excellent emulsifying and solubilizing properties. However, in recent years the trend toward PEG-free products has grown rapidly. Using Symrise's PEG-free solubilizer enables customers to benefit from the technical advantages of SymSol® PF-3 and meet consumer demands at the same time. The PEG-free solubilizer helps to dissolve lipophilic substances such as perfume, essential oils, active ingredients and vitamins in pure aqueous and aqueous/alcoholic formulations.

Third Prize for Frescolat® X-cool:
Most Innovative Raw Material - Naturals/Actives

"The new cooling agent Frescolat® X-cool, launched in October 2011, is the fruit of many years of research efforts. Several studies show that the skin-friendly, odorless active ingredient is able to deliver a strong, cooling sensation that lasts up to 30 minutes on the skin," commented the jury. The third prize for the "Most Innovative Raw Material" in the "Actives" subcategory honors the expertise of Symrise in the field of sensates.

Since 2003, the BSB Innovation Prize has been awarded annually by Beratungs- and Servicebüro Dr. Riedel. The winners are selected by an independent, international jury consisting of prestigious representatives of the cosmetics industry (including Unilever, La Prairie Group, Procter & Gamble and Mibelle Cosmetics). In the last decade, they have honored Symrise with a total of nine BSB Awards. The benefits that the award-winning ingredients offer have considerably advanced the efficacy of cosmetic products around the world.

BSB Awards in the last decade:

• 2005: SymDiol® 68, multifunctional characteristics, combining moisturization with preservative-boosting properties
  first prize in the "Excipients" category

• 2007: SymRelief®, natural anti-irritant
  first prize in the "Natural Actives" category

• 2007: SymRepair®, skin barrier repair complex
  first prize in the "Functionals" category

• 2008: SymClariol®, highly effective multifunctional product (moisturizer, , reduces undesirable appearance of acne and dandruff)
  second prize in the "Functionals/Recipients" category

• 2008: SymMollient® W/S, hydrophilic emollient
  third prize in the "Functionals/Recipients" category

• 2009: SymHelios® 1031, protecting properties against the long-term damaging effects of UVB rays and environmental pollution
  first prize in the "Functionals/Recipients" category

• 2010: SymSitive® 1609, skin-relieving properties
  first prize in the "Naturals/Actives" category

• 2011: SymFinity® 1298, 100% natural anti-aging active ingredient from the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
  first prize in the "Natural Products" category

• 2011: SymPeptide® 226EL (now SymPeptide® XLash)
  second prize in the "Natural/Actives" category