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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, January 11, 2017

ANSM: results of the 2016 controls on cosmetics (2/2)

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At the regulatory congress organized by the Cosmetic Valley in Chartres, France, in November 2016, Sophie Roques-Violin and Vanessa Picot, both from t...

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Functional ingredients as SPF boosters

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The performance of a sunscreen product and the level of its SPF do not only depend on the mixture of UV-filters in the formula. That is what Laurent B...

Monday, January 9, 2017

ANSM: results of the 2016 controls on cosmetics (1/2)

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At the regulatory congress organized by the Cosmetic Valley in Chartres, France, in November 2016, Sophie Roques-Violin, Director of the Market Survei...

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

DGCCRF: results of the 2016 controls on cosmetics

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At the Cosmetic Valley regulatory congress in Chartres in November 2016, Raphaëlle Bove, Director of the Health Products and Services & Human Serv...

Monday, January 2, 2017

Heavy metals: from omnipresence to measurement

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In the field of cosmetics, heavy metals are unfailingly associated with the notion of technically inevitable traces… although they are to be reduced t...

Monday, January 2, 2017

A history of sun protection in 15 dates

At the 3rd CosmeticDays organized by Cosmed, Estelle Loing, Biologist at Lucas Meyer Cosmetics, presented a short history of sun protection in cosmeti...

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Chartres Congress: FEBEA’s Q/A session (3/3)

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Every year, as a conclusion to the Chartres regulatory congress, the FEBEA’s (French Federation of Beauty Companies) whole team answers random questio...

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

When micro-organisms inspire sun protection research

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At the 3rd CosmeticDays organized by Cosmed, Matthieu Bey, microbiologist at Greentech, presented the defence means micro-organisms implement to prote...

Monday, December 19, 2016

Chartres Congress: FEBEA’s Q/A session (2/3)

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Every year, as a conclusion to the Chartres regulatory congress, the FEBEA’s (French Federation of Beauty Companies) whole team answers random questio...

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Sun products: exposure data question safety for babies

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At the 3rd CosmeticDays organized in Marseille, France, on December 1-2, 2016, by Cosmed, Prof Alain-Claude Roudot, of the Laboratory of Chemical Risk...

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Chartres Congress: FEBEA’s Q/A session (1/3)

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Every year, as a conclusion to the Chartres regulatory congress, the FEBEA’s (French Federation of Beauty Companies) whole team answers random questio...

Monday, December 12, 2016

Preservatives: the cosmetics industry’s defence strategy

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For the second year in a row, Sylvie Cupferman, Member of Cosmetics Europe's Expert Team Product Preservation and Microbiology International Director ...