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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, May 19, 2015

Perfumes: measuring staff exposure to substances

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Far from the glamour of finished products, the industrial perfume production process requires professionals to handle chemical substances. The Firmeni...

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

The sillage of a fragrance

The second Olfaction & Perspectives congress held by Cosmetic Valley, ISIPCA, and the Paris-Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry left a ...

Thursday, April 30, 2015

GMP: the basics… in practice and common sense

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About 30 pages, 17 chapters, and 15 themes to put into practice… How to efficiently deal with standard ISO 22716, which details the guidelines as rega...

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The worldwide tribulations of the Cosmetics Regulation

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More and more countries outside Europe are emulating European Regulation 1223/2009, and one could dream of harmonized cosmetics regulations all around...

Thursday, April 23, 2015

GMP at the core of the main contractor/subcontractor relationship

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Since 2013, the Responsible Person has been in charge of verifying Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are complied with throughout the manufacturing l...

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

European variations on the Cosmetics Regulation

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The principle underlying European Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 is that it is to be directly applied and identical in the 31 countries of the Europea...

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Cosmetics Regulations: when the implementing decrees become… transformations!

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European Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009, which entered into force on 11 July 2013, is directly applicable in the 31 countries of the European Economic...

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Algae: a world (of actives) yet to be exploited (Part 2)

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Algae were the main focus on the day of conferences at the6th edition of U’Cosmetics dedicated to marine cosmetics last March 12, 2015 in Guingamp, Fr...

Monday, April 6, 2015

From creating a perfume to diffusing it in the air

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Between the creation of a perfume and the moment it is diffused in the air, a process takes place which combines fine fragrance and high technology. T...

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The brain and the sense of smell: implications on emotions and memory

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For perfumers and scientists alike, smell is unique among the senses. Its defining characteristic is its strong tie with emotions and with memory. At ...

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Marine invertebrates: tomorrow’s cosmetic actives?

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The sea is a rich source of cosmetic ingredients. But there are not just algae, sand, sludge, salt, or water in the marine world! Invertebrates, a fam...

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Algae: a world (of actives) yet to be exploited (Part 1)

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Algae were the main focus on the day of conferences of the 6th edition of U’Cosmetics dedicated to marine cosmetics last March 12, 2015, in Guingamp, ...