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What can we expect from the new Ecocert Sourcing platform?

On October 15, 2026, CosmeticOBS attended Ecocert’s press conference for the launch of its new Ecocert Sourcing platform. Sara Mayor (Director of the Cosmetics Business Unit at the Ecocert Group) introduced us to this new tool.

Organic cosmetics: sales are rising only in pharmacies

Sales of organic cosmetics are rising in chemists, but falling in organic shops and health and beauty shops. In organic shops, however, the decline is slowing. This is shown by the figures presented by Antonin Le Masle, Business Analyst at OpenHealth, during a webinar organised by Cosmébio and Synadiet on 15 October 2026.

A French FEBEA white paper on digital risks

Digital fraud has ceased to be a marginal phenomenon and has become a systemic threat to businesses, including those in the cosmetics sector. This white paper, which FEBEA has just published, aims to document the scale of the phenomenon and identify the conditions necessary to strengthen protection against it.

Joint call to action against counterfeiting

On September 30, 2026, nine organizations representing European industries, including Cosmetics Europe, released a document calling on the European Union to strengthen liability rules for online platforms and intermediaries in order to better prevent the sale of dangerous, illegal, or counterfeit products to European consumers.

Manifesto for the Digital Transition

In late September 2026, a coalition of organizations published a manifesto outlining recommendations for a digital transition. It advocates for a “one product, one EU Data Carrier” approach and calls for the implementation of a harmonized, flexible, and technology-neutral digital labeling system that would allow certain physical information to be replaced with information accessible online.

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The FEBEA launches the Beauty Package

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Faced with trade tensions, regulatory inflation and increasingly aggressive global competition, the FEBEA is calling for immediate action to safeguard...

Monday, June 30, 2025

Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive: unfair and disproportionate, says French FEBEA

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Directive (EU) 2024/3019, which aims to shift the financial burden of eliminating micropollutants from wastewater onto the pharmaceutical and cosmetic...

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Top Brand Finance: Chanel becomes the world's most valuable cosmetics brand

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The Brand Finance ranking lists the world’s most powerful cosmetics companies. After five years on the top step of the podium, L’Oréal has been overta...

Monday, May 26, 2025

Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive: Cosmetics Europe calls for re-assessment

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In the light of new data released by the European Commission following a request for access to information, Cosmetics Europe re-affirms that the Direc...

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Who are the world's most powerful cosmetics brands?

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For 20 years, Kantar has been ranking the most valued brands. By cross-referencing financial data with consumer opinion, the forward-looking consultan...

Monday, May 5, 2025

BrandZ 2025 ranking: French cosmetics brands confirm their strength

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Kantar has just published the 2025 edition of its BrandZ Top 50 France ranking. Based on a methodology combining financial performance and consumer pe...

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Three cosmetics groups receive CDP's Triple A label

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For the past seven years, the Carbon Disclosure Project (a non-profit organization that measures the environmental performance of companies) has been ...

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

L'Oréal becomes the 3rd largest patent filer in France

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INPI has just published its list of patent filers for 2024. Absent from the podium since 2010, French cosmetics group L’Oréal is back at the top of th...

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

U'Cosmetics 2025: who are the winners?

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The 16th edition of the U’Cosmetics student competition was held on March 13, 2025 in Guingamp, on the theme “Man and cosmetics? Beauty of all kinds”....

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Eurofragance strengthens its perfume team

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Eurofragance strengthens its creative division with the arrival of Pelegrí Granel as senior perfumer. A specialist in the Personal Care and Home Care ...

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Unilever integrates AI into its content creation

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The manufacturer has announced that it is using a new technology combining AI, physics, data and materials science to accelerate the creation of quali...

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Estée Lauder accelerates its digital marketing with Adobe AI

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The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) announces a strategic partnership with Adobe to integrate Firefly, its generative AI, into the production of its digi...