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In the cosmetics industry, water is the main ingredient, first of all quantitatively, but also because of its importance in formulation and its role i...

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...

Every year, many consumers buy counterfeit beauty products, knowingly or not, at prices defying any competition. However, behind these ‘good deals’, t...

The cosmetics brand Dove, owned by Dutch giant Unilever, apologised and acknowledged that it had"missed out" after posting an advertisement online tha...

Since the discovery of the intestinal microbiota, the question of the skin microbiota (micro-organisms, bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeasts), is under ev...

Almost a third of French people suffer from skin diseases: the French Society of Dermatology (SFD) has just unveiled the results of a survey launched ...

The Greek Competition Commission has sentenced six cosmetics companies, including the American Estée Lauder and the French L'Oréal and Christian Dior,...

It seems ‘fresh’ is the new trendy word in the skincare world. After the wave of smoothies and other superfoods, beauty is also doing its own shopping...

This datasheet contains exhaustive basic information: chemical identification, technical data, functions, origins, regulations, sa...

The second part of standard ISO 16128 was published in late September 2017. This means the ‘Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natur...

The first edition of the K-Beauty in Paris show was held last September 22 by Kotra, a Korean trade promotion governmental agency. It gathered 22 bran...

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...