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Horizon 2045: four scenarios to prepare for the future

To mark CEW France’s “Journé de la Beauté 2026”, an innovative session broke with the usual round-table format. Olivier Parent (Director of Prospective Studies at Comptoir Prospectiviste), Frédérique Lenglen (Strategic Communications Advisor) and Karine Cottin (Senior Advisor, Inspire Positive Change) presented the Biotech 2045 Forecasting Capsule, a project initiated by Jean-Yves Berthon, Chairman of Greentech, in partnership with Burson and Comptoir Prospectiviste. The task: to imagine four po...

Retail in the age of the experience

To mark CEW France’s Beauty Day 2026, a round-table discussion brought together Catherine Spindler (President of Sephora for Europe and the Middle East) and Hubert de Malherbe (Director of the design agency Malherbe Paris) to address a single question: what will the shop of the future look like in ten years’ time? Their answers both centre on experience and emotion.

Impact, comparison, brand and stocks in Directive (EU) 2024/825

During a webinar held on 12 June 2026, Ambroise Pascal, the DGCCRF’s Ecological Transition Officer, and his team addressed the key issues raised by the entry into force of Directive (EU) 2024/825, which aims to combat commercial practices amounting to greenwashing. The final section of their presentation covered claims of carbon neutrality, comparison services, brands and product names, and the is...

Claims in Directive (EU) 2024/825

During a webinar held on June 12, 2026, Ambroise Pascal, the DGCCRF’s Delegate for Ecological Transition, and his team addressed the main issues raised by the implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/825, which aims to combat commercial practices that amount to greenwashing. The second part of their presentation focused on generic environmental claims and future environmental claims.

Sustainability labels in Directive (EU) 2024/825

During a webinar held on 12 June 2026, Ambroise Pascal, the DGCCRF’s Ecological Transition Officer, and his team addressed the key issues raised by the entry into force of Directive (EU) 2024/825, which aims to combat commercial practices amounting to greenwashing. The first major section of their presentation focused on sustainability labels (and the subsequent question-and-answer session).

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

A history of stressed skin

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According to the World Health Organization, stress will become the skin’s number one enemy by 2030. But exactly what kind of stress are we talking abo...

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Cosmetics: a question of humanity?

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The pandemic has highlighted the need for contact, reassurance and support. And it is not insignificant if the word “human” is increasingly used in br...

Monday, February 15, 2021

Why is the qualification of cosmetic raw materials important?

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Are you familiar with this raw material that you are about to incorporate into the formula of your next cosmetic product? Do you have all the necessar...

Monday, February 8, 2021

A history of allergen labelling

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The question of allergens labelling (or, more precisely, of a much larger number of allergens than at present) on cosmetic products has been debated f...

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Cosmetic Trends 2021: time to be positive

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New year, new consumer expectations. Although January begins in an atmosphere that is always very unstable, it seems that the upcoming beauty trends b...

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

DGCCRF: Report on controls and outlook for 2021

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During the Cosmetic Valley Perfumes & Cosmetics congress, held on 4 and 5 November 2020, Céline Nowak and Sammy Drissi Amraoui, both editors in ch...

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Chartres Congress 2020: the Q&A of the control authorities

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After their respective interventions at the Perfumes & Cosmetics Congress of the Cosmetic Valley, which was held on 4 and 5 November 2020, the ANS...

Monday, December 21, 2020

The regulation of essential oils outside the Cosmetics Regulation

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During Aromadays, a congress dedicated to essential oils organised by Cosmed, Marie Orjubin, in charge of the Essential Oils consortium, presented a v...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

French ANSM: the 2020 activities in the cosmetics sector

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IGAS report on the health safety of cosmetic and tattoo products, GMPs inspections, notices to manufacturers and other Agency publications, controls o...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Perfumes & Cosmetics Congress 2020: FEBEA's Q&A - Claims/Labelling chapter

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As every year, at the closing of the Perfumes & Cosmetics Congress of the Cosmetic Valley which was held in digital on November 4 and 5, 2020, the...

Monday, December 14, 2020

The regulation of essential oils by the Cosmetics Regulation

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During Aromadays, a congress dedicated to essential oils organised by Cosmed, Marie Orjubin, project manager of the Essential Oils consortium, present...

Monday, December 7, 2020

Perfumes & Cosmetics Congress 2020: FEBEA's Q&A - Ingredients chapter

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As every year, at the closing of the Perfumes & Cosmetics Congress of the Cosmetic Valley which was held in digital on November 4 and 5, 2020, the...