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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, April 12, 2017

GMPs in practice: cleaning premises and equipment (2/2)

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At the first Rencontres de la Qualité Cosmétique, a conference on cosmetic quality organized on March 30 by IFIS (French Training Institute for Health...

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Mineral cosmetic ingredients: oils and stones

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At the 8th edition of the U’Cosmetics colloquium dedicated to mineral cosmetics, several speakers presented their specificities in terms of ingredient...

Monday, April 10, 2017

GMPs in practice: cleaning premises and equipment (1/2)

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Giving the floor a sweep or hosing it down is not enough to fulfil the objectives set out in standard ISO 22716 on Good Manufacturing Practices – far ...

Monday, April 3, 2017

Mineral cosmetic ingredients: powders and pigments

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At the 8th edition of the U’Cosmetics colloquium dedicated to mineral cosmetics, several speakers presented the specificities of mineral ingredients. ...

Monday, March 27, 2017

Mineral cosmetics… What is that about?

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What exactly are mineral cosmetics? At the 8th edition of the U’Cosmetics colloquium organized on March 16, 2017 by the students of University UCO Bre...

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Neurocosmetics: a revolutionary approach to cosmetics? (2/2)

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At the Jean-Paul Marty Days, Fabrice Lefevre, Marketing & Innovation Director of Givaudan Active Beauty, presented the result of his group’s lates...

Monday, March 6, 2017

Neurocosmetic: a revolutionary approach to cosmetics? (1/2)

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At the Jean-Paul Marty Days, a two-day scientific congress organized by the SFC (French Society of Cosmetology) in Paris in late 2016, Fabrice Lefevre...

Monday, February 20, 2017

Packaging in the era of mass personalization

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Today, personalization is one of the major trends impacting the world of cosmetics. Tailor-made products, products to be composed yourself with bases,...

Monday, February 13, 2017

Seeing packaging beauty differently

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Viewing beauty from a different angle, wondering whether we have really seen it all, and if it would not be useful to consider other innovative approa...

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Child-Resistant Packaging: for which products and how?

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For certain pharmaceuticals placed on the market, it has been mandatory for many years to use Child-Resistant Packaging that cannot be opened by toddl...

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The ideal pump-bottle by WestRock

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WestRock is an American packaging supplier. To anticipate trends and market expectations, the company regularly conducts consumer studies. Sandy Grégo...

Monday, January 16, 2017

Cosmetics packaging safety: latest updates

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Everyone knows it under the name ‘Task Force Packaging’. The working group created to draft guidelines to help perform the safety assessment of cosmet...