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More beautiful skin: a reflection on placebo effects and efficacy studies in cosmeticsSubscribers only

This mood note was inspired by listening, a little distracted at first, then more attentively and even repetitively in a later stage, to a program of La Méthode Scientifique. If you feel like it, and if you have the time or take it, I recommend you listen to this podcast called: “The sugar cube that helps medicine flow”1.

Preserving the preservatives?Subscribers only

In a recent information, we are told that the cosmetic preservative market is expected to grow exponentially to US$1.4 billion by 2024, despite the highly controversial consumer position. This only confirms another similar, though different, piece of information reported in the report on the frequency of use of antimicrobial preservatives in products in the USA. There is reason to wonder…

The tyranny of convenience or the sheep victorySubscribers only

After a few periods of ill humour due to practices I do not really support, because they are associated with insidiously tyrannical approaches, like the tyranny of the immediate, or the tyranny of novelty, I am going on with my crusade, this time against commoditization.

The best of the beauty worlds!Subscribers only

In 1932, Aldous Huxley tried to imagine what the future beauty world would be like. He said that this world should be perfumed and that cellulite would be out-of-place. Society members’ tastes would be oriented towards leisure that would require buying specialized equipment, instead of enjoying free or cheap pastimes. For example, they would be conditioned not to like nature, on the grounds that t...

AI: not easy to make sense of it, and yet!Subscribers only

I am sure regular readers of our mood notes were not surprised by the recent news about the notion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). For those that do not feel concerned, it is still time. All of a sudden, this AI notion has been put in the spotlight, in particular with the report by French deputy Cédric Villani on the need to make strong investments in these approaches.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
More beautiful skin: a reflection on placebo effects and efficacy studies in cosmeticsSubscribers only
This mood note was inspired by listening, a little distracted at first, then more attentively and even repetitively in a later stage, to a program of ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Preserving the preservatives?Subscribers only
In a recent information, we are told that the cosmetic preservative market is expected to grow exponentially to US$1.4 billion by 2024, despite the hi...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
The tyranny of convenience or the sheep victorySubscribers only
After a few periods of ill humour due to practices I do not really support, because they are associated with insidiously tyrannical approaches, like t...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
AI: not easy to make sense of it, and yet!Subscribers only
I am sure regular readers of our mood notes were not surprised by the recent news about the notion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). For those that do ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
The best of the beauty worlds!Subscribers only
In 1932, Aldous Huxley tried to imagine what the future beauty world would be like. He said that this world should be perfumed and that cellulite woul...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Mamamouchi nail varnish!
I recently discussed a much talked-about subject, ‘new varnish’, with one of the people we spent some of our time with working on nail varnish. Specia...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Formulating differently?
These terms are more and more frequently used when certain players in our trade express their concerns. They even end up constituting a unique way of ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Did you say Fandom?Subscribers only
The word ‘Fandom’ is composed of ‘fan’ [for ‘fanatic’] followed by the suffix ‘dom’ [for ‘domain’]. The French also use the word ‘fanbase’ to describe...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
After Cosmétothèque, here comes Cosmétotec’h?
I used these mood notes several times to report about the boom of artificial intelligence, in particular as regards formulation trades. In one of them...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
The cosmetics industry innovates……………… at last!!!!!
This mood note’s title may sound provocative or rather cheeky, but to me, it does reflect reality. Indeed, our industry always boasts about being inno...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Towards new utopias, or the croissant technique?
Progress in general, whether it is technical, scientific, or more specifically social, has made us get used to being offered advances, a few of which ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Making cosmetics differently? With external influencers...
If you have a close look at the History of cosmetics, it is pretty easy to identify several periods corresponding to quite different practices. After ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
All busy on the Eastern front?
Everyone has long been praising K-Beauty’s fantastic ability to invent tomorrow’s cosmetics. Why not. Apparently, the latest trend - after cushions, w...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Endocrine disruptors: clearing up the manufactured controversy
It is not because politicians have just discovered this issue that I am taking interest in it now, but simply because things are all focused on this t...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Copernicus bacteria – Reflections on the skin microbiome
One of those sad, grey days of January, the pride of the cosmetics industry gathered in Paris to discuss a highly topical issue. Kindly invited by the...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Chefs are back
A few people have already pointed out to me that they were surprised I could take interest in issues related to artificial intelligence applied to for...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Polluted by… pollution?
Should we be sceptical as regards the spectacular wave we have been observing on pollution, or more precisely antipollution? For my part, I must admit...
Friday, November 11, 2016
Artificial Intelligence and formulation
In a recent article, I raised the question of the use of AI in formulation. Since then, things have taken shape, so I felt the need to tackle this iss...
Friday, October 14, 2016
After Slow Cosmetics, here comes Clean Beauty!
You have all probably followed the emergence of what is called Slow Cosmetics. If you have liked this concept, you are also likely to be interested in...
Friday, September 16, 2016
Moonshaver came before moonwalk!Subscribers only
Innovation is making good progress in all beauty fields, including instrumental beauty. Many techniques are regularly developed as significant advance...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
What intelligence for beauty?Subscribers only
Artificial intelligence is much debated in many fields, and discussions are quite animated on this issue. Brilliant minds like Stephen Hawking speak o...
Monday, April 25, 2016
Polluted by... anti-pollution!!!!!Subscribers only
The latest version of In-Cosmetics has just been held in Paris, and the least we can say is that anti-pollution, and by extension pollution, was at th...
Monday, March 28, 2016
The apprentice witches of the brain increased&nbsp!!!!Subscribers only
At a time when we talk a lot about artificial intelligence with the computer's repeated victories over the best go players, another notion, cognitive ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Are you COP or POC?Subscribers only
COP 21 was particularly well publicised and the political stakes often masked a whole series of concomitant events that were not really lacking in int...
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