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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.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Nanos: seven key points to understand

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Nano-particle, nano-ingredient, nanomaterial, nano-object … though tiny, nanos are topical. They are talked about, and should be even more talked abou...

Monday, February 11, 2013

Sun protection assessment: which methods, in which countries?

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Assessing the protection index of a sunscreen is essential, be it to display on the label the right SPF, or to comply with the one-to-three ratio requ...

Monday, February 4, 2013

DGCCRF surveys: 2012 report and 2013 plans

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In France, the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) is not the only authority competent for cosmetics. The DGCCRF can also program inqui...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Cosmetics: why organic is not working

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Organic cosmetics are ubiquitous in media, with an always positive green image. However, the sector is valued at 3% of the overall cosmetics market, a...

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Some precautions to take... for the principle!

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Potentially harmful substances and principle of precaution are not good friends. Especially when the former are more and more questioned by the consum...

Monday, January 21, 2013

REACH: what does change on June 1, 2013

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The REACH Regulation, implemented on 1 June 2007, enters a new phase this year, with the immediate registration of substances manufactured or imported...

Monday, January 14, 2013

Nanomaterials: the safety assessment

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On the 6 July, 2012, the SCCS released its Guidance on the safety assessment of nanomaterials in cosmetics. A sixty-two page document, which Clara Arr...

Thursday, January 10, 2013

A response to a crisis: the good approach

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A crisis may occur any time. The topic is not the economic crisis, but a media hype, a crisis in the consumers’ confidence, an accidental crisis on a ...

Monday, January 7, 2013

ANSM 2012 inspections report

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Monitoring the market and its practices is one of the duties of the French ANSM. Sometimes working in cooperation with the DGCCRF, it commands inspect...

Monday, December 24, 2012

Export: the beauty world, and its markets

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On December 11, the Cosmetic Network team of Ubifrance organized the first Rencontres Internationales de la Beauté (International Meetings on Beauty)....

Friday, December 21, 2012

The right sunscreen formula

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What is the ideal formula for a sun protection product? What type of formulation should I choose? With which filters, dispersed in which form? To prov...

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Cosmetovigilance: how to set it up?

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Article 23 of the Cosmetics Regulation requires, since 11 July 2013, the “Communication of serious adverse reactions” to the competent authorities of ...