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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).

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

UEBT 2019 Barometer: Biodiversity from Asia

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For the eleventh consecutive year, the UEBT has unveiled the results of its biodiversity barometer at a conference held in Paris on 20 and 21 May 2019...

Monday, May 20, 2019

Packaging: an external sign of wealth

The packaging is thousands of years old. Since time immemorial, humans have invented containers to store and transport different types of goods. Over ...

Monday, May 13, 2019

The French market for essential oils

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They are widely talked about, praised for their properties, criticized for their allergenicity, pointed out by the control authorities when their clai...

Monday, May 6, 2019

REACH and essential oils

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Cosmetics, food, biocide, medical devices… depending on their destinations, essential oils are governed by several different regulations. To add to th...

Monday, April 29, 2019

Understanding everything at CMRs

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What is a CMR? By what process is a harmonized classification of a substance achieved? What are the impacts in cosmetics? During the Regulatory Meetin...

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

International cosmetic controls: the results of Cosmed's survey

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How are cosmetic products exported abroad controlled by the national authorities of the different countries? At the March 2019 International Meeting, ...

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Essential oils and endocrine disruption

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With regard to the endocrine system, are essential oils active or disruptive substances? It is to this question that Jean-Marc Giroux, Doctor of Pharm...

Monday, April 15, 2019

DGCCRF: Market surveillance 2017, 2018 and 2019

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During the Regulatory Meeting organised by Cosmed on 21 March 2019, Catherine Argoyti and Céline Nowak presented the actions of the DGCCRF in terms of...

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

E-commerce in China: key figures and main players

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The easiest way to export cosmetics to China is certainly to use the Internet, whether through traditional or cross-border e-commerce. During the Inte...

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

History of art and beauty: a thousand-year-old proximity

“When art inspires cosmetic innovation” was the theme chosen for the 10th edition of the U’Cosmetics student competition. If the subject seems extreme...

Monday, April 8, 2019

French ANSM: the results of the 2018 inspections

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At the Regulatory Meeting organised by Cosmed on 21 March 2019, Vanessa Picot, Cosmetics Inspector of the French ANSM, presented the results of the Ag...

Monday, April 1, 2019

European regulatory news: an update by Salvatore D'Acunto

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As usual, Salvatore D’Acunto, Head of Unit - Health Technologies and Cosmetics of the European Commission, spoke at the Regulatory Meetings organised ...