As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to look back on a truly ground breaking year – one defined by bold innovations, luxurious formulations, and well-deserved recognition. This year we pushed the boundaries with a series of incredible launches; from powerful nighttime treatments, an innovative eye formula, to glow inducing serums each designed to meet the needs of modern discerning skin.
Beyond our product innovation, 2025 has also been a year of proud milestones for our brand. We achieved B Corp Certification, affirming our commitment to sustainability and responsible business practices and gained Leaping Bunny Status, a reflection of our dedication to cruelty-free ethical skincare.
Looking back, it’s clear that 2025 has been a year of advancement, impact, and recognition and this is just the beginning. GATINEAU’s future has never been more luxurious, purposeful, and inspiring and I’m thrilled to look back on a year marked by exciting progress.
Building on the beloved Golden Glow Gradual Tan, one of our first launches for 2025 was the Golden Glow Gradual Tan Face Serum, a luxurious and innovative skincare product designed to deliver radiant, healthy-looking tan. From the moment it debuted, industry experts and skincare influencers celebrated it alike, earning multiple accolades for its advanced formulation, natural ingredients, and visible results. What I personally love about this serum is how seamlessly it slips into your existing skincare ritual – just swap it in for your daily serum on the days you crave a subtle, sun-kissed radiance. Completely odourless and invisible, it comes in two sophisticated shades (Light/Medium and Medium/Dark) yet is power packed with advanced skincare technology including innovative Hyaclear 7, a powerhouse complex of seven different molecular weights of hyaluronic acid which deliver multi-layered hydration and a Marine Bioretinol to smooth and plump. This isn’t just a serum, its glow, redefined and if traditional self-tanning makes you nervous, I promise you, this is your risk-free, flawless, sun-kissed solution.
In 2025, we focused on enriching our Collagen Expert portfolio, a range dedicated to targeting lines, wrinkles, hydration, and dullness. To elevate this range, we launched an innovative trio: a Plump and Revive Eye Cream, a Protect and Restore Hand Cream, and a Hydra Essence Night Recovery; each expertly formulated to boost collagen, restore radiance, and deliver visibly smoother, youthful-looking skin.
Created with tired, puffy looking eyes in mind, Collagene Expert Plump and Revive Eye Cream is a high-performance, science-meets-nature treatment designed to reduce dark circles, puffiness, fine lines, and wrinkles. Meticulously crafted with eight potent actives, including a skin plumping Double Collagen Complex and anti-stress Neurophroline™ this restorative formula has bold clinical test results. Its lightweight yet decadent texture simply melts into the skin, providing instant comfort without heaviness, making it ideal for both day and night use. Clinically proven to reduce the appearance of puffiness and eye bags in just 30 minutes, the results are nothing short of remarkable.
Just before Christmas, we unveiled our luxurious new hand formula: Collagene Expert Restore and Protect Hand Cream. From the very beginning, the brief was clear – to create a deeply nourishing and reparative, yet never greasy hand cream, infused with high-quality, age-defying ingredients. With every detail perfected, our Restore and Protect Hand Cream was born, and it is a true ritual of skincare for your hands. Infused with skin plumping collagen, quenching Hyaluronic Acid, and softening squalane it delivers intense hydration, restores suppleness, and shields against daily aggressors, leaving your hands soft, smooth, and beautifully nourished, every single day.
Two of my absolute favourite launches of 2025 have to be the Collagene Expert Hydra Essence Night Recovery and the Age Benefit Night Renewal Cream – true powerhouse night treatments that work in harmony to repair, recharge, and regenerate your skin while you sleep. Our very first night-focused skincare innovations fuelled by advanced, reparative actives for visible overnight renewal, the intensively hydrating Collagene Expert Hydra Essence Night Recovery is a weightless, silky elixir that glides onto skin after cleansing, flooding it with an instant surge of moisture and suppleness whilst Age Benefit Night Renewal Cream ensures the ritual becomes transformative. Its decadent texture melts into the skin, fusing the nourishment of a precious oil with the elegance of a feather-light cream, delivering deep, restorative hydration without heaviness. Together, they create a sensorial nighttime experience - comforting, indulgent, and exquisitely effective.
It was the comeback we had all been waiting for. The cult-favourite SOS Stick finally returned, ready to rescue skin from surprising blemishes, stubborn blackheads, and untimely breakouts. Reimagined with a sleek new look and an upgraded formula, this iconic skincare essential has the beauty world buzzing once again There’s only one reason to reinvent an icon: progress. When innovation meets a beloved classic, something extraordinary happens and GATINEAU scientists used this moment to refine the formula and introduce pioneering, results-driven ingredients elevating the remedy to new heights of performance and ushering in a new era of elegance.
Building on the success of Defi Lift Volumising Peptide Lip Treatment, we launched an exciting new shade, Bisou, adding a fresh touch to the collection. Blending high-performance skincare with effortlessly wearable colour, this next-generation lip treatment offers far more than a beautiful finish. A flattering warm berry tint enhances the lips while an advanced complex of volumising peptides, hydrating actives and barrier-supporting botanicals works to address dryness, loss of volume, fine lines, and dullness all in one indulgent swipe. Wear it alone for a sheer wash of colour or layer it over your favourite matte lipstick to add comfort, shine, and dimension – either way you’ll step out with lips that command attention.
2025 was filled with unforgettable memories and achievements, and 2026 is already keeping the momentum going, kicking off with the exciting launch of our next generation cleansing balm. Redefining the very beginning of every skincare ritual, this modern take on a classic cleansing essential features a lightweight yet luxurious hybrid gel–balm texture, engineered to provide advanced, effortless deep cleansing. Powered by 10 nourishing oils and butters, including a Sub-Tropical Fruit Seed Oil Blend and biotech Squalane, Collagene Expert Melting Cleansing Balm soothes, replenishes, and supports the skin barrier leaving skin deeply hydrated and cashmere soft, with absolutely no greasy after-feel. This is everything - and more - you could ever want from a cleanser.
So as 2025 comes to an end and GATINEAU propels into 2026, we celebrate a future filled with luxury, results, and exceptional launches…and this is just the beginning.
Lucy x