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.
Ecocert Sourcing is a digital platform designed for players in the cosmetics industry (finished product brands, formulators, and raw material suppliers). It centralizes more than 18,000 cosmetic ingredients, whose sourcing data and criteria are verified by an independent third party (Ecocert).
Sara Mayor told us: “And we didn’t do this all by ourselves in our office. We consulted with about twenty brands and formulators. It’s a project we built together with them, with the industry.”
The platform’s objectives
• Enhance transparency regarding the origin, composition, and environmental impact of ingredients.
• Combat greenwashing by enabling companies to substantiate their environmental claims with reliable, verified data.
• Facilitate responsible sourcing by helping finished-product brands and formulators more quickly identify and compare ingredients that align with their commitments.
• Simplify communication between suppliers and buyers, while preserving the confidentiality of suppliers’ strategic data.
A new verification service: Sustainability Data Check
At the same time, Ecocert also offers Sustainability Data Check, a new service for verifying sustainability data on cosmetic raw materials. This service covers several areas: • GMOs and biotechnology (GMO-free, free of genetically modified microorganisms),
• animal origin and biodiversity (no ingredients of animal …
