In-cosmetics Global 2026: Silab creates Cicactyl for skin barrier recovery
04 May 2026 | Silab
We spoke with Hélène Muchico, marketing and communications department manager at Silab, at In-cosmetics Global 2026, where she highlighted the company’s latest innovation, Cicactyl. The active ingredient is derived from carob gum and supports skin repair during the proliferation phase. By promoting recovery of the skin barrier, Cicactyl helps reduce erythema, dryness, and scabbing, improving the overall quality of healing.
This is Ella Ja Donal for Personal Care Insights at In Cosmetics Global 2026, joined by Helene Munchico, marketing and communications department manager at Sab.
Hello Helen.
Hello, hello.
So to jump right into it, this year marks the 10th anniversary of your soft care division.
Can you tell me a little bit about that?
Yes, sure.
So we have been working in the Sealabb softcare range and department for 10 years.
So now we, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary, of course, and this range is very specific in the strategy.
So it is a range dedicated to.
Compromise the skin.
So to compromise the skin, it is skin with disorders.
So what we have built for years now is how to find solutions against atopic dermatitis or acne and how can we build those solutions.
It is when we are able to build some very strong in vitro models and in these modeling studies we are able to mimic the skin disorder.
So we've done that after very long years of research and very interesting ones.
So for atopic dermatitis and also for acne.
What is new this year is that we are launching a new product for this specific soft care range.
Can you tell me a little bit about the product that you are launching at this event?
Yes, this year we are launching, and icy it is a new ingredient to target the skin lesions and to help skin to be repaired.
So this product is made from cow gum and like in the tree products of the range, it is preservative free and in powder form, so very easy to use for all the dermatologists and dermatological brands.
This product will help the skin to be repaired after some lesion or some treatments, so it can help the proliferation phase.
So by acting on 4 biological events.
In this proliferation phase, also, what is very important for this product, it is that we have a double performance on the weight of healing and also on the quality of healing.
So that brings a very new gamer in the market to repair the skin needing to be repaired.
Perfect, thank you.
Which of your showcased ingredients are best positioned to help brands tap into current trends like barrier-focused skincare, ingredient transparency, and gentle efficacy, particularly across hydration, exfoliation, and anti-aging applications?
So you understood that with this solution we have already a very strong action on.
Skin barrier, but for repairing purpose also we have different kinds of products in our range some active ingredients really strong to help the barrier function.
When we talk about homeostasis, we know many troubles can.
Can be difficult for the skin and so the meostasis can be broken.
So with, for instance, neoil, another active ingredient very strong in the beauty area that we are providing this active ingredient.
Can be very important to help the skin barrier to be better and so we have made many, many studies and just to mention one, we have a similar results to those of nasinamide for hydration or effect.
OK, thank you.
And how are you leveraging advanced scientific tools like molecular modeling or lipidomic studies to differentiate your active ingredients and demonstrate measurable efficacy for formulators?
Yes, if we talk about neolipil that I just mentioned, we have for this product made a very high omics study.
We made some lipid omics to demonstrate the interest of the active ingredient in the construction of the lipid matrix.
So atyla for many of the products we have the omic technology.
That we own and we develop in-house so to show some interest in genetics and genomics and also proteomics, epidemics, many kinds and with different purpose, anti-aging, skin barrier, this is how we are working very often for our concepts.
Fantastic.
And finally, in response to rising interest in multifunctional ingredients, what solutions are you showcasing that enable brands to combine performance benefits in a single formula?
This is a very interesting question because we have in our range some different kind of products.
We have very targeting product, but also we have more.
Transverse or active ingredients, so we know on the market it can be of interest for our brands to be able to have a continuity of the active ingredients we use.
So we have lifts.
This is a new technology we launched last year and this is our core.
Business of tensor lifting ingredients, but we demonstrated many efficacies for face care, body care, for makeup.
So that's really the interest of skinification as to be able to have one strong active ingredient able to be formulated in many types of formulas.
All right, perfect.
Thank you very much, Helene, for joining us at Personal Care Insights.
Thank you.
