NYSCC Suppliers’ Day 2026: Symrise talks skin barrier, sensoriality and sustainability
27 May 2026 | Symrise
Karen Chun, VP of sales North America at Symrise, highlighted what trends are shaping innovation in the region at NYSCC Suppliers’ Day. She explained how Cellexora MD stands out in a crowded skin care market, how SymConcentrole Barrier Boost supports barrier health, and how SymFeel Quat Green balances sustainability with high-performance sensory benefits.
This is Sabina Waldeck for Personal Care Insights at New York Suppliers Day, joined by Karen Shun, VP of sales, North America at Symrise.
Welcome.
So what are you highlighting here at Suppliers Day?
Today, this week at the suppliers' Day, we are showcasing the next generation of high performance sustainable actives, solutions that really force brands to not have to choose between efficacy and sustainability.
We're highlighting three ingredients.
The first one is Selexora MD.
The second is SIM concentral barrier boost, and the third is SIMe quat grain.
What key consumer trends are shaping personal care innovation in North America right now?
That's a great question.
Everybody's always looking for trends.
Some of the key trends that we are seeing.
Number one is skin health, not quick quick fixes.
As an example, Simrise launched a new, division called Care and wellness the beginning of this year, and we are combining the idea of beauty care and wellness because a lot of our brands and our customers are looking to cross over between the two with inner and outer beauty.
Another trend that we're seeing is biology-driven innovation, such as Exosomes, microbiome, longevity.
Another is sustainable sourcing, and lastly, sensorial experience, being able to feel the product that it, it gives you a really aesthetic, experience.
We are seeing very savvy consumers these days who are continuing to read labels and looking at ingredients, and they, they need to know what they're using really fits into their.
Their way of life as as that it's performing the way they want it to perform.
So what makes Selexora MD stand out in today's saturated skincare market?
Oh, we love Celexora MD.
This is, we're truly proud of this new launch.
It's a true exosome derived from upcycle organic apple, and this product will truly deliver skin elasticity as as wrinkle reduction.
And then moving on to sim concentral barrier boost, how does it address the growing focus on barrier health and multifunctionality?
Yeah, we love SI concentral as.
The barrier boost was designed to target barrier health by strengthening the skin barrier by up regulating philgrin, and it delivers skin firmness, elasticity, and resilience to the skin.
We're so proud of this, this material that is, derived and sourced from upcycle pineapple and coconut.
And then how doesy feel quak green balance sustainability with high performance sensory benefits?
Simphquat Green is a great example of not sacrificing performance with green chemistry.
It really offers optimal conditioning and slip to the hair, giving you antifreeze property, and it's biobase, and it's a great alternative to polyquat 7 and polyquat 10.
And then lastly, where do you see the biggest opportunities for personal care innovation in North America over the next few years for sunrise?
Another great question.
OK, so the biggest opportunities we see for innovation in North America really is in advanced actives focused on longevity and skin biology.
We are also seeing, high performance.
A natural ingredients.
Natural is the way to go.
That's why a lot of our new launches are really bio-based.
We're also seeing multi-functional ingredients.
We're not only launching new, new ingredients that are multifunctional that has a lot of benefits associated with it, but our customers are coming back to us with ingredients that are already coded and saying, hey, what other benefits can we add to existing claims that they're making.
So really there, those are the things that we are really seeing in addition to that, I think we really need to continue to support our customers and our brands with concepts.
We're not just selling ingredients, but we're really truly selling concepts, so that they can also, sell the concepts to the consumer so that they can buy those products based on emotions as as performance.
So I think these are really true innovative, ideas and categories that are really gonna grow the beauty industry.
Perfect.
And yeah, thank you for joining us at Car Insights.
You're welcome.
