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Sustainability: more of a prerequisite than a selling point

Does sustainability still drive sales of beauty products? Not in itself, according to Tom Patton, Director of Product Insights for Western Europe at NielsenIQ. Faced with rising living costs, consumers expect, first and foremost, products that meet their needs at the right price. He spoke on 28 October 2026 in Paris at the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit.

No luxury without sustainability

Are consumers of high-end beauty and fashion products concerned about sustainability? Yes, according to Rémy Oudghiri, Deputy Managing Director of Sociovision, the foresight and sociological division of the Ifop Group. He spoke on the subject on 28 October 2026 in Paris, at the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit.

The assessment of systemic toxicity in cosmetics

At the symposium “NAMs and NGRA for the predictive assessment of systemic toxicity (TOX26)”, organised by the Adebiotech association on 1 and 2 October 2026, Corinne Benoliel, founder of Institut Scientis, chaired the session on the regulatory framework for the assessment of systemic risk in cosmetics. She summarises the session here.

Layering and fluffing: a combination… that isn’t inevitable

In the age of layering and skincare routines, products are no longer used alone but in combination—one on top of the other—which increases the number of points of contact, the potential for incompatibilities between the skin and the products or between the products themselves, and the risk of unwanted flaking… At the Cosmed scientific conference held on September 29, 2026, Muriel Morelli, founder ...

Layering: the challenge of the safety assessment

At the Cosmed Scientific Congress entitled “Formulation in the Age of Layering and Cosmetic Routines” on 29 September 2026, Clarisse Bavoux (Deputy Managing Director in charge of digital solutions and ERT Toxicologist at CETHRA) and Agathe Deniau (Pharmacist and Toxicologist at Aroma-Zone) gave a presentation on safety assessment in the context of cosmetic routines.

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 ...

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

How to market a compliant personalized cosmetic product (2/2)

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Several types of products fall within the definition of a personalized cosmetic product. At the Chartres Congress held by the Cosmetic Valley on Novem...

Monday, December 5, 2016

How to market a compliant personalized cosmetic product (1/2)

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It is THE trend of the moment: personalized cosmetics are popular, but this category can cover different product types that must meet specific regulat...

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Current cosmetics regulatory affairs as seen by the industry

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Article 15 of the Cosmetics Regulation and status of CMR substances, European catalogue of nanomaterials, future of ‘free from’ and ‘hypoallergenic’ c...