AINIA / Cosmetics

Technological services to drive cosmetic innovation

Scientific evidence, personalisation, sustainability, transparency, holistic well-being and sensory experience

At AINIA, we help cosmetics companies transform their challenges into viable solutions: efficacy validation, consumer studies, ingredient development and assessment, sustainability, packaging and regulatory support.

The cosmetics sector is moving towards increasingly scientific, personalised, sustainable and experience-oriented models. In this context, companies need to demonstrate claims, reformulate with guarantees, reduce time-to-market and better understand the consumer.

AINIA provides technical capabilities and applied knowledge to support this process from start to finish.

The challenges currently shaping innovation in cosmetics

The cosmetics industry is undergoing a profound transformation driven by science-based cosmetics, personalisation, sustainability, ingredient transparency, the connection between beauty and health, and the search for differentiated sensory experiences. But these trends bring clear challenges: demonstrating real efficacy, responding to more demanding regulation, reformulating without compromising performance, differentiating in a saturated market, accelerating developments and anticipating consumer acceptance.

Innovation challenges

Demonstrate the real efficacy of your product

Reformulation in the face of demanding legislation

Sustainability without compromising compliance

Differentiation in a saturated cosmetics market

Cosmetic packaging: functionality, compatibility and sustainability

Scale-up, industrial services and proofs of concept

01_Demonstrate the real efficacy of your product

Do you need to demonstrate the real efficacy of your product?

Turn product promises into solid technical evidence. At AINIA, we help you generate the scientific basis needed to support claims and strengthen the positioning of your cosmetic developments.

Demonstrating claims, demand for scientific evidence and competitive pressure from brands with greater clinical support

One of the main challenges in the sector is to support claims with solid evidence. Consumers demand proof, and the market penalises empty promises. This forces companies to integrate scientific validation as part of development, not as a final phase.

At AINIA, we help turn efficacy into a demonstrable argument, aligning experimental design with the product positioning.

Nutricosmetic validation

How to accelerate ingredient development

02_Reformulation in the face of demanding legislation

Do you need to reformulate in the face of increasingly demanding regulation?

Anticipate regulatory change and reduce the technical risk of your reformulations. AINIA supports you in maintaining product functionality without losing competitiveness.

Increasing restrictions on ingredients and chemical substances, need for reformulation and adaptation to different markets.

Regulatory pressure in cosmetics is increasing, with restrictions on ingredients, new safety requirements and specific requirements depending on the market. This forces products to be reformulated without losing efficacy or identity.

AINIA supports this process from a technical and strategic perspective, reducing the risk associated with each change.

03_Sustainability without compromising compliance

Do you want to develop more sustainable cosmetics without compromising efficacy?

Sustainability can no longer remain just words. At AINIA, we work to ensure that the transition towards more sustainable formulations and packaging is technically viable and aligned with market expectations.

Redesign of ingredients, processes and packaging; technical difficulties in maintaining performance and improving recyclability

Sustainability is already a market requirement, but its real implementation poses significant technical challenges: maintaining efficacy, ensuring stability, guaranteeing compatibility with packaging and validating new raw materials.

At AINIA, we address sustainability from an applied perspective, connecting formulation, processes and materials.

Development and assessment of ingredients of natural or biotechnological origin
Sustainable processes for obtaining and valorising compounds
Stability studies
Packaging services: material selection, product-packaging compatibility and more sustainable solutions
Support in eco-design and circularity

Creation of innovative products that succeed with consumers

In-person workshop · 4 h

04_Differentiation in a saturated cosmetics market

Do you need to differentiate yourself in a saturated cosmetics market by understanding the consumer?

Proliferation of brands, increasingly shorter innovation cycles, difficulty standing out and the need to anticipate real consumer acceptance.

The cosmetics market is saturated with references, claims and similar propositions. Differentiation no longer depends only on launching new concepts, but on building products with a clear, credible and relevant value proposition for the consumer.

To do this, it is key to understand how the user perceives the product: which attributes they value, what sensory experience it generates, what emotions it activates and which factors influence their acceptance, preference or purchase intention.

At AINIA, we help cosmetics companies reduce uncertainty in their developments, integrating science, sensoriality, neuroscience and consumer knowledge to design products with a greater ability to connect with the market.

Develop products that not only work, but connect

At AINIA, we help you transform consumer perceptions, emotions and preferences into safer and more differentiated innovation decisions.

05_ Cosmetic packaging: functionality, compatibility and sustainability

Cosmetic packaging: functionality, compatibility and sustainability

Cosmetic packaging is part of the product’s value proposition. It not only protects and preserves the formulation, it also influences consumer perception, sustainability, functionality and brand positioning.

Develop more sustainable, functional packaging aligned with new market requirements, without compromising the product’s stability, safety or user experience

At AINIA, we help assess and optimise packaging from a technical perspective, connecting materials, product-packaging compatibility, functional behaviour and sustainability criteria.

Cosmetics Sector

Innovation Solutions

At AINIA, we offer solutions to address the challenges of the cosmetics sector and meet consumer expectations.

06_Scale-up, industrial services and proofs of concept

Scale-up, industrial services and proofs of concept for cosmetic ingredients

Many cosmetic innovations do not fail due to lack of potential, but due to lack of technological validation, scalability or industrial viability. Before investing in a full development, companies need to test technologies, obtain samples, validate processes and reduce technical uncertainty.

Difficulty moving from an idea or laboratory development to a viable, scalable solution aligned with technical, quality and market requirements

AINIA provides pilot and industrial capabilities to support the development of cosmetic ingredients and actives from proof of concept to scale-up and production, integrating technologies such as microencapsulation, biotechnology and extraction with supercritical CO₂ to optimise the obtaining, stabilisation and functionality of high-value compounds.

Why work with AINIA on your cosmetic projects

AINIA combines scientific capabilities, consumer knowledge and industrial vision to support cosmetic projects with a comprehensive approach. This allows us to address innovation through different levers at the same time: evidence, functionality, sustainability, sensoriality, packaging and market. In an environment where companies need to demonstrate more, launch sooner and differentiate themselves better, this cross-cutting approach provides a clear competitive advantage. The sector’s own evolution confirms that cosmetic innovation is shifting towards more scientific, more transparent and more user-experience-centred models.

What type of projects can we help you with?

Do you have a challenge in cosmetics?

Why AINIA is your technology partner in cosmetics AINIA combines scientific capabilities, consumer knowledge and industrial vision to address cosmetic innovation comprehensively. This makes it possible to work simultaneously on different product dimensions: efficacy, perception, sustainability, packaging and positioning. In an environment where technical requirements and competitive pressure are increasingly high, this cross-cutting approach provides a clear advantage: developing better-founded products, with a higher probability of success and aligned with market demands.

Let’s talk about your next challenge

If you are working on a new ingredient, a reformulation, an efficacy study, packaging improvement or consumer validation, at AINIA we can help you turn that challenge into a technically sound, market-oriented solution.

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Begoña Ruiz

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