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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).

Monday, July 8, 2019

Cosmetics sector: a major player in the French economy

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Futile, the cosmetics industry? Not so much… At its general meeting held in Paris on June 5, 2019, the FEBEA unveiled the results of a study conducted...

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

The Green Beauty is on the move!

Twenty years ago, the trend of organic and natural beauty was struggling to find its way onto the cosmetic scene. Today, it is in the forefront and ma...

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

You'll have some more fake news, won't you?

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“300 dangerous cosmetics on the market”, “ingredients used by beauty manufacturers are unreliable”, “the use of skin care products can cause illness”,...

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Cosmetics: safety in danger

On June 20, 2019, Cosmetic Valley organized a day of conferences on the theme of consumer safety. As Marc-Antoine Jamet, President of the Cosmetic Val...

Monday, June 24, 2019

CEAC 2019: Safety in debate

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The Annual Conference of Cosmetics Europe (Federation of European Cosmetic Companies) was held on June 12 and 13 in Brussels. Its theme was “New Horiz...

Monday, June 17, 2019

Portrait of the new cosmetic consumer

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Seducing the consumer? This is the question to which all brands would like to have the answer. Consumers are becoming increasingly difficult to attrac...

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

More eco-friendly sunscreens with BASF's EcoSun Pass

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With widely diverging global regulations, increasingly controversial filters, whether due to their potential toxicity or their harmful effects on mari...

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

GMP: supplier quality control

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Contractual relations with subcontractors and suppliers or control of the quality and release of raw materials are regularly among the critical points...

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Guerlain, all in transparency

Luxury cosmetics brands are often accused of being unspoken about their internal procedures or of not caring about environmental issues. Guerlain has ...

Monday, June 3, 2019

Microbiome, did you say microbiome?

The new stars of the skin are them: bacteria. There are no less than 100,000 billion different microorganisms on our skin. Nothing to whiten, they are...

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Essential oils: the right packaging to avoid interactions

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Ubiquitous in many consumer products, including cosmetics, essential oils are complex substances containing many active compounds. How to control thei...

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

How much pesticide in my essential oil?

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Essential oils are plant extracts, whose cultivation does not necessarily exclude plant protection products… How many of them can be found once the ex...