PCHi 2026 live: Givaudan unveils delivery system for skin care, teases upcoming neurocosmetics launch

Givaudan Active Beauty debuts its latest skin care delivery system at the PCHi 2026 (Personal Care and Homecare Ingredients) trade show in Hangzhou, China. The company also hints, live on the trade show floor, what its next ingredient launch will be.

Personal Care Insights sits down with Mathias Fleury, the head of category for active ingredients at Givaudan, live at the show to discuss the launch of its new system, VectorHyal, and teases the company’s upcoming launch, which will be unveiled at the In-Cosmetics Global trade show in Paris, France (April 14–16).

On the “quest for encapsulation”

VectorHyal’s HA-engineered system is designed to optimize the potential of active ingredients by engaging a combination of encapsulation science and HA engineering to improve ingredient efficacy and stability across cosmetic applications.

The system “answers to the typical quest for encapsulation,” explains Fleury. “Which is to enhance the stability and the performance of encapsulated active ingredients, making them more stable through time, oxidation, light, and so on, while enhancing their performance, for example, by boosting their penetration into the skin.”

With its HA-based biopolymer chassis, the technology offers various innovations for future formulations. Its active molecules enable deeper penetration into the skin while an enzyme trigger allows for controlled and gradual release, improving product activity over time.

It also enhances stability by protecting sensitive ingredients from external disruptors and maintaining structure.

By using HA in the chassis, VectorHyal enables the preservation of transparency in the final products. Fleury tells us that due to its transparency-sustaining properties, the system is well-suited for use in formulations such as serums.

Givaudan has already seen success with some beauty brand customers using the product in “perfectly transparent serums,” says Fleury.

To demonstrate the characteristics of the technology during its launch at the PCHi tradeshow, Givaudan engaged the Tyndall effect — “which is basically the scattering of light by micron-sized particles in a transparent liquid” — by pointing a laser beam through a formulation featuring the VectorHyal capsule.

The presence of the capsule makes the laser beam visible in a transparent liquid when ordinarily the beam would not be visible. “It’s a way for us to use the light to reveal the hidden technology that is inside the serum,” explains Fleury.

The system is touted as “versatile by design” and can support both hydrophilic and lipophilic active ingredients, and is aligned with a range of potential formulations ranging from serums to creams. 

Formulation teasers

Givaudan showcases the VectorHyal skin care delivery system at PCHi 2026 in China.

Fleury also teased Givaudan’s plans for the in-cosmetics Global tradeshow taking place next month. The company is set to unveil a new anti-aging neuro skin ingredient and introduce results for an existing product, PrimaHyal 300.

“We will launch a new ingredient which is all about solving a newly identified aging pathway for the skin that we call neuro skin aging, demonstrating that there is a kind of interconnection or intercommunication between our skin cells and the nerve fibers in the skin, showing that it kind of accelerates the skin aging when the nerve fibers quality decrease,” says Fleury.

According to Fleury, the ingredient provides the “perfect solution” to this issue by “restoring the quality of the nerve fibers with anti-aging benefits, and on top of that, [the new ingredient possesses] very significant reactivation of the sense of touch, which makes it a wonderful product for sensoriality and well-being.”

“It’s a new angle, a new approach in neurocosmetics, because it’s really about the nervous system and the quality of the nervous system, but definitely it would fit in this notion of connection between the skin and the brain and the mood and well-being of the consumers,” he explains.

PrimaHyal 300 is a medium molecular weight hydrolyzed hyaluronic acid ingredient used primarily for post-procedure applications. The findings set to be presented at in-cosmetics indicate that use after procedures “like laser treatment of the skin, or chemical peelings, shows that [the ingredient] can significantly accelerate the recovery of the skin.”