Hey guys, welcome to a very special episode of Skin Anarchy.

In this episode, we're going to be spotlighting the CEW 2025 Innovator Awards.

These awards are incredibly meaningful because they are really celebrating the women that are behind the scenes and making beauty happen on every level.

These are the scientists, the architects of what we consider to be true beauty innovation.

And so I cannot wait to dive in.

And to begin the episode, please welcome back the president of CEW, Ilana Drell Seifer,

and with her today's Andrea Nagel, who is a seasoned beauty industry content executive and currently serving as chief content officer at CEW.

Welcome, Ilana and Dre. I'm so excited to dive

into these awards and understand them because it is such an important celebration and I can't

wait to learn more about it. Andrea, I would love to start and ask you a question because I really

want our listeners to grasp the true meaning and the relevance of the Innovator Award.

So let's start at the beginning.

What was the gap in the industry that led to the creation of these awards?

So it's so nice to see you and to speak to you.

So thank you for having me.

I think even before talking about the awards, we should take a step back and really talk about

CEW's relationship with NYSCC, who was so instrumental in the awards really coming together.

So for more than a decade, CEW has partnered with NYSCC really around the beauty awards

and a specific award called the Ingredients and Formulation Award.

So it's an honor that really recognizes true innovation in formulation science.

So year after year, this category stands among the most highly submitted in the entire

Beauty Awards program alongside facial

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