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This year, the annual campaign to support research against breast cancer, Octobre Rose, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The 2017 edition started ...

You may have them in your cupboards. Maybe, you use them, still. Beware: they are dangerous, illegal, harmful… and are the subject of a recall or ban ...

When the cosmetics industry embraces trees, it gets skin-beneficial actives that provide a bit of their strength. Oak, pine, mahogany, chestnut, birch...

This mood note’s title may sound provocative or rather cheeky, but to me, it does reflect reality. Indeed, our industry always boasts about being inno...

As cosmetics brands vie each other in inventiveness to offer the public new skincare products with ever-more innovative galenics and textures, an alte...

French organic cosmetics brand Phyt’s has just launched their first mobile application. What for? To make it possible for consumers to book an appoint...

Anglo-Dutch food and consumer products giant Unilever said Monday it was buying a leading South Korean cosmetics and skincare company for 2.27 billion...

The M&A market for beauty products has reached a tipping point – ‘acquire, or be acquired’. This is one of the learnings of a study published by C...

Parabens, phenoxyethanol, nanoparticles of titanium dioxide, PPD, phthalates, perfume allergens… FEBEA (French Federation of Beauty Companies) has dec...

French label for ecological and organic cosmetics, controlled by the Professional Association of Ecological and Organic Cosmetics.

The ban of (polluting) polyethylene beads in rinse-off products by 2018 in France and many other countries is actually stimulating cosmetics formulato...

Reference school in the international perfume, cosmetic and aromas businesses, ISIPCA puts online the second version of its MOOC "From the art to smel...

At the 2017 Cosmed International Congress, Vanessa Picot, Cosmetics Inspector at ANSM, made an update on what ANSM has been working on and on the late...

All marketing departments dream about a ‘World’ claim that could be used the same way on all markets. And everyone knows how inaccessible this dream s...

It has been a few years since beauty boxes have invaded cosmetics consumer mail boxes. The offering is massive, there is something for every taste. An...

Is 2017 the year of change for women's perfumery? That is what the latest figures released by The NPD Group tend to show. In France, sales of new frag...

A tailor-made volume thanks to a barrel to tighten, a small bottle to shake like that famous drink, and which no longer dries out – or almost –, formu...

The safety of the UV-Filter Phenylene Bis-Diphenyltriazine (S86) will be re-assessed by the SCCS. The request from the European Commission, following ...

There is strong consensus across China that using make-up is a useful technique to boost confidence, and at the same time, show respect for others. It...

Everyone knows the cosmetics industry is one of the most flourishing in the world. However, trends and consumers’ desires vary from one country to ano...

This novelty is launched by the ingredients supplier Codif. Thanks to the use of DNA analysis techniques, its laboratories have, for the first time in...

Already prohibited by the European Regulation in the cosmetics industry, animal testing is more and more disparaged and often criticized among the gen...

With its natural formula and unique cleansing power, it has got it all to seduce organic-addicts and other vegan-maniacs. New, innovative textures (in...

All marketing departments dream about a ‘World’ claim that could be used the same way on all markets. And everyone knows how inaccessible this dream s...