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Multi-Dimensional Strategies to Improve Skin Hydration: Barrier Restoration, Gentle Anti-Aging and Antioxidant-Glycation Across Three Cosmetic Systems

Conference

Session 3: Hydration evaluation, what's new?

Day 2

9:30 am

In China’s fast growing dermo cosmetic market, hydration is increasingly viewed as the biological anchor for comprehensive skin health. Modern consumers expect moisturizing products to simultaneously enhance barrier robustness, deliver gentle anti aging benefits, or protect against oxidative and glycation driven damage. Proya has developed three complementary systems that illustrate a multi dimensional strategy to improve hydration through barrier repair, controlled retinoid activity, and cellular level defense mechanisms.

The Ruby Series demonstrates how hydration intersects with gentle anti aging. Its “dual A + dual peptide” technology supports collagen quality, helping preserve firmness and moisture retention, while optimized retinoid–ceramide–NAG combinations promote lipid replenishment with minimized irritation.
The Double Effect Brightening Serum highlights hydration’s link to metabolic balance. Its NOX AGE complex mitigates oxidative stress and glycation while supporting ATP levels, SOD activity, autophagy, and melatonin synthesis—pathways essential for maintaining optimal water balance and cellular recovery.

Proya’s Original Repair Cream addresses hydration through barrier restoration. Using lactobacillus/soy ferment filtrate, bacillus ferment, and a multi ceramide complex, it boosts key proteins including filaggrin, loricrin, and TGM1, reduces inflammation, and improves dermal epidermal junction structure—yielding more resilient, longer lasting moisturization.
Together, these systems reflect Proya’s integrated vision of hydration as a dynamic, biologically interconnected process that drives comprehensive skin health.

Lieve Declercq

Proya

Dr. Lieve Declercq is Chief Scientific Advisor to PROYA Cosmetics and Vice President of the PROYA Europe Innovation Center in Paris, where she drives the integration of European scientific excellence and innovation into PROYA’s product development strategy. Before joining PROYA, she spent over two decades at The Estée Lauder Companies, ultimately serving as Vice President of Basic Science Research and Advanced Technologies for Europe and Asia. With a strong scientific foundation and deep industry insight, she supports PROYA in elevating product performance and advancing science driven skincare for China’s highly sophisticated beauty market.

Proya Cosmetics, founded in 2003 and headquartered in Hangzhou, is one of China’s leading and fastest growing beauty companies. The group has demonstrated strong financial momentum, recently surpassing the symbolic 10 billion RMB (≈ 1.2 billion EUR) mark in annual revenue. The company maintains a broad portfolio of skincare and beauty brands and consistently invests in scientific research and innovation to strengthen its market leadership.
In 2024, Proya became the first Chinese beauty group to establish a European Innovation Center in Paris. Located in La Défense, the center is designed to accelerate international R&D, integrate European scientific know how, and reinforce Proya’s global influence. Its mission includes technology scouting, collaboration with European partners, and supporting brand development for global markets.
Together, Proya Cosmetics and Proya Europe bridge Chinese market leadership with European excellence to drive next generation, science based skincare innovation;

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