S.I.KOREA

BeautyLAB aims to tirelessly work on providing customers with top-notched product effect and differentiated afterfeel, and developing safe, stable, and competitive products.

Q.Tell us about the team: BeautyLAB was founded in 2021 for the sake of a mission contributing to the growth and prosperity of cosmetic business via the development of differentiated SI technologies. For the main tasks, we try to make use of new technologies or invent a new-model of cosmetics that provides a differentiated performance over the leading products in market; to develop original technologies that cover accelerating skin absorption and stabilizing active ingredients; to verify the effectiveness of new active ingredients by leveraging on the human cell model; to provide brand-aligned technical support with RTB by enhancing the quality and mechanism of products.
Q.How does your work relate to brand business and what are its effects?: Our team not only secures the pool for differentiated cosmetic formulations and foundational technologies that enables in-house customers (brand team) to develop high-quality products in a rather short period, but also suggests an approach for products in advance by leveraging on the accumulated portfolio we have by way of evaluating the stability/effectiveness of formulations/ingredients. Additionally, like we demonstrated an antioxidation test at the SP rollout featuring 'Marine Caviar Treatment' earlier this year, we visualize and schematize the product effect and applied technology in order to persuade the customers.
Q.Tell us about the work style of your team.: Our work style is very flexible. While we conduct our research individually on the assigned products and tasks, we do give each other feedbacks actively on our mutual performance to bring the desired results. We could say in a word, "Separate but Together" to describe our team. Communications are perfectly fine since our members have a lot in common owing to similar tendencies (college of science, engineering). We all feel strong responsibility for the work and this makes us fulfill each of our roles in a flexible working environment.

Q.When was the moment you felt the most achievement while working?: • When we heard from someone that we were very helpful
• When we achieved great results at the end of the project through the efforts of all of our team members
• When we provide brand teams with technical supports on the task they have difficulty with
• When brand teams favored the products we introduced at the open-library
• When roll-out products are popular with the customers (e.g. afterfeel, effect, etc.), when sales are on the rise.
Q.Are there any (Tell us about the) speical efforts you do to improve the expertise of your team?: • Searching new products and trying them out
• Experiencing a variety of publications and exhibitions to keep up with the new trends
• Having consistent interests in the cosmetic trend (e.g. ingredient, formulation, customer, effect)
• Reading literatures, trend reports, and news or participating in an academy and exposition

Q.What is it to be a "good team" for you?: • The team that needs you
• The team that has no problem with communication
• The team that creates synergy by complementing each other
• The team that embraces each person's individuality
Q.(Question to the team leader) What ideal type of leadership do you pursue (as a team leader)?: I figure that the team performance depends on what attitude the members have at work, and that it is the team leader who gets to be responsible for helping out with managing that attitude. I believe members can be motivated and enjoy the work only if they have this mind for themselves that 'I am so curious to find out the cause and develop a product like this'. BeautyLAB requires its members to have their own work motivations a lot more compared to other teams in that the team objective is to consistently come up with new ideas and materialize them with scientific basis. So I try to listen to and respect our members' opinions, and design tasks by their supports. Of course, they may not fully recognize my efforts of doing so. I may not be 100% perfect but I will do my best to get on with this point of leadership when running the team.
Q.What it means for BeautyLAB to be part of SI Technology Innovation Centre?: There are innovative and differentiated products constantly pouring inside the cosmetic market, but it is only a few that have original technologies. Here, BeautyLAB secures these essential technologies with scientific data, and provide technologies that are conducive to developing effective and practical products. With the capability, we are proud to say the team is definitely an essential division for SI Cosmetics.

Q.Please share some advice on the prerequisites for those who want to apply for your team.: It would be very helpful to be an independent person who can find and organize your own work.
Considering the line of work, individuals get to work alone most of the time compared to other teams, so if you are able to seek tasks of your own, and make your own way by managing schedules and plans, I believe you will feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction at work. Not to mention that communication skills and mediation competence are also important requisites for successful mutual relationships.
Q.Is there any philosophy or objective BeautyLAB sticks to?: BeautyLAB aims to tirelessly work on providing customers with top-notched product effect and differentiated afterfeel, and developing safe, stable, and competitive products.