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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.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

ADN and cosmetics: standing together for a good cause

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If there is an unavoidable molecule to structure any form of life, that is ADN (in French; DNA, in English). In France, it is also a structure that ca...

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Cosmetics improve our quality of life... and it can be measured

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It is not a scoop: cosmetic products have a positive impact on one’s self-image and self-esteem. No way: one feels far better when imperfections are m...

Monday, December 3, 2012

Annick Goutal welcomes a new head

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In a December, 1st press release, the perfumes manufacturers Annick Goutal announces the leaving of Brigitte Taittinger, its Chairperson. A new Chairp...

Friday, November 30, 2012

Sunscreens efficiency: an answer by the cosmetic industry

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The debate has been renewed last summer, in August, by a paper released in the French daily Libération. Laurence Coiffard, a researcher-lecturer in th...

Friday, November 23, 2012

An R-Award for Body Nature

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The third R-Awards, organized by the Club Génération Responsable® and Generali, has been given to Laboratoire Body Nature, for its social commitment w...

Monday, November 19, 2012

"Life, more beautiful?" becomes"beautiful & good"

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After more than 10 years of action, the association changes its identity and thus affirms its membership of the international network"look good feel b...

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The One Voice label unfurls in blue

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Thanks to a second certification level, called “Blue", One Voice makes its certification available to much more products and brands. In order to get t...

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Cosmebio recalls its opposition to GMOs

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Since ten years, the Cosmebio Charter bans any use of genetically modified vegetable raw materials. Following the publication of the Professor Gilles-...

Monday, September 17, 2012

Being: a new label for spas

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The spas world is full of standards, labels and of other marks of quality or excellence. One was missing for ecological and sustainable development cr...

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Beauty: Exhibition in crisis

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The information has been released just after summertime: the French Salon de la Beauté 2012 is postponed. A proof that the crisis is also felt by the ...

Friday, August 17, 2012

Ecocert suspends the ZinClear approval

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Are there nanoparticles in the ZinClear IM 500CCT, a sunscreen marketed by the Australian company Antaria, as whistle-blown by the Australian branch o...

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

UVA in vitro: a new ISO standard

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This new ISO standard will help laboratories and the cosmetics industry to measure the UVA performance of sunscreen products and will contribute to be...