On February 22, 2026, The Eco Well is hosting a free, full-day virtual conference dedicated entirely to beauty product development – covering everything from formulation and claims to safety, regulatory, legal, packaging, manufacturing, and scale.
The Product Development E-Summit runs 8am-4pm ET and is free to attend, being part of The Eco Well’s broader free e-summit initiative.
Past e-summits have brought together over 30,000 attendees and 140+ vetted speakers across 12 events.
Can’t make the full day? Recordings will be available afterwards, and you’re welcome to join for just the sessions most relevant to you.
What The Summit Covers
The agenda is structured as a end-to-end walkthrough of what it actually takes to launch and scale a beauty product responsibly.
Sessions include:
- The Brand Founder Experience + AMA – Marie Drago PharmD (Gallinée), Chayadhorn “Ing” Kitiyadisai (INGU Skin), Priscilla Tsai (cocokind)
- Product Development Overview – Geetha Solheim
- Formulation 101 – Jane Tsui (@janethechemist) and Ramón Pagan (@glowbyramon)
- Regulatory 101 – Meredith Petillo (Independent Beauty Association)
- Safety 101 – Zoran Gavric (The Regulatory Company)
- Claims Development + Testing 101 – Rania Ibrahim PhD and Claire Bing
- Legal 101 – Avril Love (K&L Gates)
- Supply Chain + Sustainability 101 – Shannon Hess, Maggie Spicer, and Jen Novakovich
- Packaging 101 – Marta Wolska-Brys and Matt Gibney
- Manufacturing, Quality + Scale Up 101 – Richie Rubin and Geoff Waby
Attendees also receive an on-demand replay and a comprehensive e-book summary covering every session.
Why This Summit Exists
Beauty product development looks simple from the outside. Trend decks spread fast, and ingredient marketing shapes how most people understand the industry.
But the actual work runs on regulation, testing, documentation, quality control, supply chain decisions, and risk management – and falling behind on any of it has real consequences.
“Getting some of this stuff wrong can translate to a million-dollar-plus class action lawsuit,” says Jen Novakovich, the cosmetic scientist and science communicator behind The Eco Well.
“It can result in unsafe products entering the market because the brand didn’t understand how to verify safety before launching.”
Access to this kind of technical education has historically been expensive and geographically concentrated. The Product Development E-Summit is built on the premise that it doesn’t need to be.
Who Should Attend
The summit is designed to be valuable across experience levels and roles. That includes brand founders (prospective and established), product developers, formulators, regulatory and legal professionals, supply chain and sustainability teams, and consumers who want to understand how products are actually made – not just marketed.
It’s also relevant beyond the industry itself.
As Jen points out, legislators shaping cosmetics regulation in the US don’t always have a clear picture of how product development actually works – including the reliance on contract manufacturing. Better education, she argues, leads to better policy.
Sign Up
Sign up for the Product Development E-Summit here. If you can’t make the live event, you’re welcome to join for the sessions most relevant to you, or watch the recording post-live.
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