In a consistently dynamic wave, the cosmetic and personal care industry is always on the lookout for new ingredients and research-backed formulations that deliver results. A shift in consumer preferences in the pre-COVID and post-COVID eras from natural ingredients like aloe, coconut oil, and herbal ingredients to clinical ingredients like salicylic acid, hyaluronic acid and more, is pushing brands to change their formulations and launch competitive products.
As brands navigate the ever-changing market trends, the impetus on staying ahead falls on the shoulders of contract research and product manufacturing contractors. A comprehensive solutions provider in this domain is Cosmetics Concept Research (CCR), Gujarat’s own one-stop contract research and contract manufacturing solutions provider.
Established in 2015 by Jigar Patel, who is also the Chief Scientist at the firm, CCR is led by an entrepreneur-scientist who previously founded the popular D2C brand Brillare Science, a homegrown clean beauty brand loved by conscious consumers for its honest, minimal yet effective approach to personal care. Jigar’s experience in building a consumer-facing brand from the ground up, fuels CCR’s understanding of what it takes to create successful, scalable, and market-viable products.
From research to prototyping, stability testing, and manufacturing, the company takes care of every aspect, while offering flexibility. In a highly dynamic market where hundreds of brands are fighting to grab audience’s attention, Cosmetics Concept Research (CCR) empowers brands with truly effective formulations that work.
It was Glenmark, CCR’s very first client, who trusted the team to develop Episoft AC, a light moisturizer with sunscreen, entirely from scratch to a market-ready product. This launch became a market-leading success and laid the foundation for CCR’s reputation as an innovator. Since then, the company has made a huge impact in pharmaceutical companies, too, with its innovative product concepts and topical drug delivery systems that are budget-friendly yet highly effective.
Potent & Stable Formulations
Formulating everything from face care products like serums, cleansers, moisturizers, and toners to hair care products like shampoos, scalp serums, and more, CRR caters to a broad product range for its pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry clients. Equipped with highly educated and experienced professionals, Cosmetic Concept Research understands the nuances of customer needs, and stands out for its research-backed formulations.
Product potency and stability, along with reproducibility are central to the company’s R&D efforts to ensure consistent results for end users. With a primary focus on R&D, the firm ensures its formulations are developed to maintain their potency from the point of manufacturing to the point of final use.
Using calculated volumes of potent active ingredients, Cosmetics Concept Research makes sure each of the formulations deliver the results they promise. Careful and detailed documentation ensures that the optimal formulations are reproducible, allowing brands to guarantee consistent results in the long-term. This also helps preserve quality of the products, enhancing brand reputation and elevating market adoption of the products.
“The cosmetic and personal care industry is highly non-systematic, and it is up to us to experiment with active and other ingredients and their ratios to create strong formulations. At CCR we ensure that our products are stable and potent from their manufacturing to the last drop with active
ingredients offering their key advantages, without process failure, repeatedly. This is where our expertise lies”, shares Jigar Patel, Founder & Chief Scientist, Cosmetic Concept Research.
The firm’s team of researchers and business development specialists are all pharmacists and experts with advanced degrees, ensuring that the products are deeply understood and their impact is analysed thoroughly. From knowledge of the molecules to the kind of deliverables demanded, and how they can be achieved are all streamlined by this team. As a complete contract research, design, and manufacturing partner, the company has anability to control every aspect of the process.
This ability also allows CCR to understand brand-specific uniqueness, such as the desired results, preferred hero ingredients, formulation type and feel, as well as other details to curate completely tailored solutions. Beyond product customization, the firm also acts as a value-adding partner for various brands, offering deep research without product manufacturing commitment based on client needs.
Compliance & Sustainability Core
Powered by 100 percent automatic manufacturing units featuring completely automated processes from raw material weighing to manufacturing, blending, filling, capping, and packaging, the company ensures quality and compliance adherence. Catering to a large pool of US-based and global clients, the company focuses on ensuring its formulations are aligned with FDA’s compliance norms. This helps ensure that all formulations also pass other global compliance standards as well.
However, in cases where specific compliance or regulatory standards are required to be met, the firm tailors its solutions to align with the particular specifications. By automating the manufacturing processes, it streamlines compliance adherence, ensuring human error is prevented. The automation also helps boost reproducibility across products, enabling consistent look, feel, efficacy, and sensory experience.
“As pharmacists, we are taught how to understand the regulatory guidelines of various countries, and how to make sure that the products pass between the regulatory guidelines. Following these principles, we ensure that there is no regulatory hurdle that impacts our products during launch or throughout its lifecycle”, adds Jigar.
Alongside compliance, CCR also focuses on sustain ability, particularly when catering to cosmetic brands. Prioritizing biodegradability, the firm strives to incorporate biodegradable packaging or materials wherever possible to align its completed products to the brand values closely.
Currently handling a volume of 20-25 projects per year, the company aims to expand its capacity to over 100 projects per year
Journey & Future Roadmap
With a laser-sharp focus on quality, potency, and reproducibility backed by science, CCR has grown progressively and steadily since its inception. Over the years, the firm has innovated a range of groundbreaking products that have hit the markets like storm, changing consumer preferences. Having pioneered impactful work not only in beauty and personal care but also in pharmaceutical derma products, CCR has cemented its reliability among diverse client segments. And as it moves ahead, it aspires to continue building on this legacy to deliver novel products that deliver results.
Moving forward, the company is focused on expanding its team and facilities to accommodate its growing work. Currently handling a volume of 20-25 projects per year, the company aims to expand its capacity to over 100 projects per year. For this, it is vigorously working towards team expansion, and facility expansion and improvement.
Alongside this expansion, the firm is closely monitoring market trends and working on exciting new formulations and products aligned with changing demands. “Face serums and sunscreens are the categories that will shape the future of the beauty and personal care industry. There is some exciting work that we are doing in these categories aligned with the global regulatory changes”, concludes Jigar.
With sunscreens and face serums being a staple product used extensively when stepping outside and visiting beaches, their impact on marine life is now under scrutiny. The European regulatory bodies are implementing a ban on ingredients that harm coral life. This shift presents a massive change in sunscreen formulation, and CCR is leveraging this opportunity to innovate some exquisite products that are safe for the coral life and aligned with EU and FDA regulations. As it plans its future, the company is unveiling its unique formulation ideas, opening it up for brands to enhance their offerings.
With a continuous research-inclined focus and commitment to formulate products that actually offer the effects they promise, Cosmetics Concept Research is changing the domain of contract research and manufacturing, elevating the standard for all.
Jigar Patel, Founder & Chief Scientist, Cosmetics Concept Research
A key milestone in CCR’s journey was the support and belief of Orbit Life Science, a Mumbai-based contract manufacturing and new technology licensing company. Orbit Life Science recognized the potential of CCR in its early days and since 2015 has been a seed round investor and marketing partner. Their collaboration has helped CCR expand its reach to pharmaceutical and personal care companies across the globe, leveraging Orbit’s extensive network and expertise.
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