News:Congresses

EUDR: Everything you need to know about the "Deforestation-free" Regulation

It was due to come into force on 31 December 2024, but has been postponed for a year. And for good reason: nobody was ready, whether economic operators or the authorities. So there is still time to get to grips with it and prepare for it. At the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, held on 20 and 21 November 2024, Thomas Delille, of the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, presented a decoding of what he called “a veritable jewel of regulatory engineering th...

Consumers and sun protection: the current situation

During the Cosmetic Days organised by Cosmed in early December 2024, Valérie Rager-Brossard, Director of Customer Relations at the Appinio research institute, presented an overview of the uses and understanding of sun protection products by French consumers. The findings were mixed…

French DGCCRF: an update on the 2023, 2024 and 2025 inspections

At the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, held on 20 and 21 November 2024, DGCCRF representatives Virginie Gallerand, Nathalie Delion, Flore Pluvinage and Isabelle van Hamme presented the results of investigations carried out in 2023, gave an update on controls in 2024 and announced the outlook for 2025.

The implementation of French Anses' “cosmetics” missions

One year ago, Anses became a new player in the French cosmetics safety landscape. At the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, Sandrine Charles and Élodie Lontsi presented the implementation of their new missions concerning the vigilance and evaluation of cosmetic substances and products.

Perfumes & Cosmetics Congress 2024: the Q&A of the authorities

Following their respective speeches at the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, held on 20 and 21 November 2024, the representatives of the French cosmetics control authorities, the Anses and the DGCCRF, answered questions from congress attendees. On the menu: status of certain ingredients, claims, cosmetovigilance, control philosophies…

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Microbeads: the beginning of the end

The future of the use of microbeads in the cosmetics industry seems to be clear now. Product manufacturers should be ready to stop making formulas con...

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Chartres congress 2017: FEBEA’s Q&A (3/3)

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Just like every year, to conclude the Chartres regulatory congress, the whole FEBEA team (French Federation of Beauty Companies) answered all sorts of...

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Exposure to cosmetics: how to guarantee beauty professionals’ safety?

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When doing their job, hairdressers, beauticians and nail prosthetists almost permanently use very specific cosmetic products. These long, repeated exp...

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Chartres congress 2017: FEBEA’s Q&A (2/3)

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Just like every year, to conclude the Chartres regulatory congress, the whole FEBEA team (French Federation of Beauty Companies) answered all sorts of...

Monday, January 15, 2018

Baby cosmetics: how to make consumers trust them again?

The baby cosmetics sector is no stranger to worrying controversies on product safety. Ingredients are regularly targeted as potentially hazardous, all...

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Time to make cosmetics follow the skin’s rhythm

The principles of chronobiology were revealed more than two centuries ago. But the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2017 is the opportunity to rediscover this ...

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Chartres congress 2017: FEBEA’s Q&A (1/3)

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Just like every year, to conclude the Chartres regulatory congress, the whole FEBEA team (French Federation of Beauty Companies) answered all sorts of...

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

DGCCRF controls: results and plans for 2018

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The first day of conferences of the 2017 edition of the Chartres Congress ended with the results of the controls carried out by the DGCCRF (French Gen...

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Passport for Germany (3/3): regulatory framework and market approach

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With its particular structure and very specific distribution channels, the German cosmetics market has characteristics that need to be perfectly integ...

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

CMR ingredients: the story of an inevitable death

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Formaldehyde, Titanium dioxide, Zinc pyrithione, D4 and D5, Salicylic acid… they already are, or are likely to be soon classified as CMRs – with the c...

Monday, December 18, 2017

Passport for Germany (2/3): German cosmetics distribution

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Contrary to what we may think, the German cosmetics market is not that easy to understand and penetrate for a French company. At a Workshop on Decembe...

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

REACH: the 2018 deadline and the main sticking points

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The long registration and evaluation procedure for chemicals placed on the European market is coming to an end, the last deadline being May 31, 2018 f...