Croda Beauty’s Natrineo™ CR8 wins silver for Best New Ingredient at The Pure Beauty Awards

24 October 2025: Croda International Plc (“Croda”), the company that uses smart science to create high-performance ingredients and solutions that improve lives, today announces that its groundbreaking, naturally-derived emulsifier, Natrineo™ CR8 has been awarded Silver for Best New Ingredient at the Pure Beauty Awards UK 2025. 

The Pure Beauty Awards UK celebrates the best in innovation, creativity, and excellence across cosmetics, skin care, hair care, and fragrance. 

Natrineo CR8 is a single-step, PEG-free¹ emulsifier that allows formulators to create stunning water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) emulsions with just one ingredient, delivering an indulgent, non-greasy, luxurious feel. For consumers, Natrineo CR8 means products that can enhance skin hydration and improve the effectiveness of active ingredients for skin care that works harder and smarter.  

By putting the customer at the heart of formulation, Croda ensures products containing Natrineo CR8 meet the expectations of modern beauty consumers, combining efficacy, luxurious feel, and sustainability in one solution. It also improves the bioavailability of actives over time for more effective skin care and can enhance the performance of inorganic sunscreen systems, enabling high-performance sun care formulations. 

Designed with conscious innovation in mind, Natrineo CR8 contains 92% natural origin content (ISO 16128), is 100% bio-based, Ethylene Oxide and Propylene Oxide-free, readily biodegradable, and certified vegan/vegetarian  and Halal. Natrineo CR8 also supports the production of RSPO certified sustainable palm oil by using the Mass Balance supply chain model.2 This ingredient therefore helps customers support a cleaner beauty future without compromising performance. 

Hannah Critchley, Head of Marketing, Skin Care at Croda said: “Natrineo CR8 embodies Croda’s belief that meaningful innovation begins by reimagining what’s possible, and we’re delighted to see that recognised with this accolade. Natrineo CR8 is not just a new ingredient, it represents a more responsible approach to formulation, combining performance, sensory excellence and purpose in one, and empowers formulators to create products that not only perform beautifully but also reflect the sustainability values shaping modern beauty.” 

Find out more about this award winning product here: Natrineo CR8 | Croda Beauty

¹A product formulated without polyethylene glycol

² Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) trademark license number: 2-0024-06-100-04 

Pure Beauty Award Silver

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Notes to Editors 

About Croda  

Croda is a specialty chemicals company that creates high performance ingredients and solutions principally for 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 94 locations in 36 countries. Revenues in 2024 were £1.6bn.  

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.  

To find out more about Croda visit: www.croda.com
 

Croda Beauty 

At Croda Beauty, we’re innovating for a beautiful world, one experience at a time. We craft trend-setting ingredients that redefine beauty standards and surpass expectations. With cutting-edge technology and capabilities in functional ingredients, actives and botanicals, along with our extensive formulation expertise, we can help you stand out and build an enduring brand in the global beauty industry. 

To find out more about Croda Beauty visit: www.crodabeauty.com

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