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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).

Friday, May 4, 2012

Active ingredients: the innovation and its challenges, by Karl Lintner

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Innovation is at the core of the today’s cosmetic, up to the point when one wonders what the latter would be without the former … Active ingredients, ...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The list of ingredients

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We all know that the list of ingredients is mandatory on a cosmetic product’s label. We know the main principles… but it is not that easy to be fully ...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Water in cosmetic production

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Water is not only a cosmetic ingredient. Apart its importance in formulae, it is also an important element of the manufacturing process. When entering...

Monday, April 2, 2012

The mark of origin

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A “Made in” may boost sales…especially when followed by the word “France”. It may also be mandatory (but not always). When on the label of a cosmetic,...

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Cosmetics and health: a relationship for the future ... worth investigating!

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In no way, this is a suggestion to go from a product-on-the-border to a medical device. Obviously, it is important to balance where allegations and cl...

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Cosmetics: health products, for real

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The Matinales de la Cosmétique (The Breakfast Meetings - Cosmetics), the professional conferences organized every month by Sylvain-Romain ...

Monday, February 13, 2012

Inspections dealing with Competition issues

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Emmanuelle Gourbin, director of Legal and Corporate Affairs at Febea (the French Federation of Beauty Companies), reminded the audience of the aim of ...

Friday, February 3, 2012

Controls and inspections dealing with cosmetic products - In practice

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“An inspection is like a wedding: an important phase of preparation before, a day or two for the event, and long-lasting consequences, later.” This jo...

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

When "Allergen-free" is essential for essential oils

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“Allergen-free.” The mention is still frequently found on cosmetic labels, a sign of strong consumer demand and the willingness of manufacturers to tr...

Friday, January 27, 2012

Controls and inspections dealing with cosmetic products - In theory

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The French Public Health Code lists the various authorities entitled to inspect the cosmetic industry: pharmacists and MDs who are qualified as inspec...

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Inspections dealing with the chemical regulation (REACH, CLP)

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Catherine Bramaud, scientific advisor at FEBEA, gave an update on the two European regulations, which share the same principle: Member States are resp...

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Cosmetic and LEDs: Tomorrow's advancement?

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A renowned anti-ageing specialist, Dr Claude Dalle has come to explain the numerous attendance of the latest Breakfast Meetings - Cosmetics what he se...