The Australian retail beauty industry, while proud of its home-grown brands, is fascinated by what the go is on global beauty. Looking at London’s recent beauty awards by the UK’s leading beauty association there – Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW), gives an insight into what’s hot in the influential UK market. CEW members, guests and press gathered to celebrate the winners of the 2019 CEW Beauty Awards, presented by Lucy Horobin. From 31 winners CEW named four noteworthy brands: Charlotte Tilbury, Drunk Elephant, The Handmade Soap Company and Elemis.
With Amazon Beauty and Sainsbury’s as the headline sponsors, the 2019 Awards received just under 300 entries across 31 categories.
Key highlights from 2019 CEW Beauty Awards
The Responsible Beauty Award sponsored by Givaudan is an additional category and saw The Handmade Soap Company as the winner. The Handmade Soap Company prides itself on its products being 99.7% natural. Also named: ‘Best Hand or Food Product – Mass & Prestige’ category and ‘Best New Brand – Mass’.
ELEMIS saw four outstanding wins – being awarded the prestigious seal of approval in ‘Best New Targeted Skincare – Prestige’, ‘Best New Mask – Prestige’, ‘Best Beauty Icon – Prestige’ and ‘Best New Vegan Beauty Product – Mass & Prestige’.
CEW Beauty Award 2019 Winners
The Responsible Beauty Award Sponsored By Givaudan
The Handmade Soap Company
Best New Body Product – Mass
Rituals Cosmetics: Shower Foam Flower
Best New Hair Product – Mass
Batiste: Dry Shampoo & De-Frizz
Best New Skin Prep – Mass
Rituals Cosmetics: Cleansing Balm
Best New Skintellectual – Mass
Balance Me: Vitamin C Repair Serum
Best New Targeted Skincare – Mass
Yes to Tomatoes: Detoxifying Charcoal Blemish Fighting Zit Zapping Dots
Best New Mask – Mass
Balance Me: Congested Skin Sheet Mask
Best New Face Makeup – Mass
Sleek MakeUP: Highlighting Elixir Illuminating Drops
Best New Eye Makeup – Mass
KIKO MILANO: Standout Volume Buildable Mascara
Best New Lip Makeup – Mass
Burt’s Bees®: Liquid Lipstick
Best Beauty Icon – Mass
Tweezerman: Classic Steel Slant Tweezer
Best New Brand – Mass
The Handmade Soap Company
Best New Body Product – Prestige
Aromatherapy Associates: City Serenity Bath and Shower Oil
Best New Hair Product – Prestige
Living Proof: full dry volume blast
Best New Skin Prep – Prestige
Charlotte Tilbury: Hollywood Flawless Filter
Best New Skintellectual – Prestige
Drunk Elephant: A-Passioni™ Retinol Cream
Best New Targeted Skincare – Prestige
ELEMIS: Peptide4 Eye Recovery Cream
Best New Mask – Prestige
ELEMIS: Peptide4 Thousand Flower Mask
Best New Face Makeup – Prestige
Laura Mercier: Translucent Loose Setting Powder – Glow
Best New Eye Makeup – Prestige
NARS: Climax Mascara
Best New Lip Makeup – Prestige
Charlotte Tilbury: Matte Revolution Lipstick – Pillow Talk
Best New Fragrance – Prestige
Molton Brown: Jasmine & Sun Rose Eau de Toilette
Best Beauty Icon – Prestige
ELEMIS: Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm
Best New Brand – Prestige
Drunk Elephant
Best New Sun Care Or Self Tan – Mass & Prestige
Isle of Paradise: Self Tanning Water
Best New Hand Or Foot Product – Mass & Prestige
The Handmade Soap Company: Lemongrass & Cedarwood Hand Wash
Best New Beauty Tool Or Accessory – Mass & Prestige
Tangle Teezer: The Wet Detangler
Best New Wellbeing Product – Mass & Prestige
This Works: sleep power nap spray
Best New Vegan Beauty Product – Mass & Prestige
ELEMIS: Superfood Day Cream
Best New Beauty Supplement – Mass & Prestige
Absolute Collagen: Daily Dose of Beauty
Best British Brand – Mass & Prestige
Charlotte Tilbury
About CEW
Founded in 1992, Cosmetic Executive Women is a not-for-profit professional organisation with more than 1,000 members in the United Kingdom, from the beauty industry and related fields. Essentially it is an inclusive (non-specific) age and gender networking/mentor group bringing the beauty community together, at every stage of their careers, from every facet of the industry.
In the UK, CEW has grown to become the most influential organisation, promoting and defining the British Beauty Industry, and has for the last quarter of a century worked to reach a pre-eminent position as the only voice of the UK beauty industry.