With sales of 25 billion euros, 25 % of world market share and 170,000 employees1The Perfumery-Cosmetics sector is undoubtedly the world's number 1. This fast-growing, innovation-driven market has needs that go far beyond chemistry, and the CNRS aims to meet them.
The challenges facing the Perfumery-Cosmetics industry and CNRS
Even if cosmetics formulation remains at the heart of consumers' expectations (effectiveness, comfort...), they are increasingly looking for healthy, natural and personalized formulas, and expect cosmetics brands to be committed to the environment.
To meet all these expectations, the Perfumery-Cosmetics sector has set itself the challenges of tomorrow:
- eBeauty to design connected measurement tools, personalized cosmetics and even those adapted to the skin's changing needs.
- The Blue Beauty movement, which seeks to reduce the environmental footprint by designing packaging and products that are solid or powdered and formulated without water, or by using vegetable-based inks.
- Naturalness to design the organic and natural products of the future or launch sustainable plant cultivation programs, for example.
- Safety, quality and traceability...
To support the perfume and cosmetics industry, researchers and companies need to work hand in hand. In all these areas, the CNRS, which already works with a large number of French cosmetics companies, is strongly mobilized and a force for innovation, because the cosmetics challenges of the future are also scientific challenges, including in fundamental research. eBeauty, for example, calls on fields of research such as data science, artificial intelligence and robotization. The Blue Beauty movement, for its part, calls for innovative work on materials science to design the new packaging and containers of tomorrow.
In addition to the research carried out by its laboratories, the CNRS offers services to companies, particularly in the cosmetics sector...
CNRS Formation Entreprises: the CNRS continuing education organization
To prepare its 2022 catalog, CNRS Formation Entreprises, the CNRS's continuing education organization since 1987, looked at the needs of industrial sectors (as well as those of companies: VSEs, SMEs, ETIs and major groups), as it is a real desire of the CNRS and in particular its Corporate Relations Department to combine the knowledge available within its laboratories with the research challenges of the various industrial sectors.
For the Perfumery-Cosmetics sector, the organization offers 5 flagship training courses:
- Skin cell biology: cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications
- Extraction and analysis of plant bioactives
- Conversion of biomass to specialty chemicals
- Physical properties of lipids: from solid materials to hydrated phases
- Microfluidic technologies: principles and applications
- And many more...
CNRS Formation Entreprises can also organize customized, in-company training courses to better adapt to business needs. This solution is particularly interesting when a company needs to upgrade the skills of a whole (new) team, or of staff from different departments who need to work on the same project. There's no limit to the subject you can study, as the CNRS has 1,100 laboratories and 90,000 research players in every possible field.
Trouver un Expert, the service that puts companies in touch with CNRS experts
Created in 2020, the Find an expert has already helped associations and major French cosmetics groups. Its role? To identify and put in touch business players who request it with the CNRS expert, team or laboratory with the knowledge and know-how to help them in their thinking, idea or project.
The request may, for example, concern a state of the art, the search for knowledge and skills in a field (which is sometimes not the one the requester has in mind!), a need for characterization, to remove a technological barrier, to validate an innovative idea from a technical and technological point of view...
The service is a real gateway to CNRS laboratories, and its concept is simple: you simply submit your request by filling in a form on the CNRS website. findunexpert.cnrs.frThe team will then get back to you to discuss the project, refine it if necessary, and start looking for the expert best suited to meet your needs. In two or three weeks, you'll have found your "pearl"!
The DRE Industrial Sectors strategy
As part of its 2019-2023 objectives and performance contract, the CNRS has confirmed its commitment to giving an increasingly important place to relations with the business world, and has set up a strategy for approaching French industrial sectors, including the Perfumery-Cosmetics sector. The CNRS is thus in a position to co-construct joint research roadmaps with the players concerned, which serve as a basis for identifying, proposing and conducting pre-competitive projects in relation to the industry, as well as for developing bilateral or multilateral relations with companies in the sector. Thanks to the skills and know-how of its laboratories, CNRS is able to offer innovative and disruptive technologies that are essential for winning or regaining market share. Under the responsibility of a Scientific Advisor (Prof. Richard Daniellou, Cosmetics Project Manager and Director of Groupement Cosm'actifs)) - Industrial Cooperation Manager (Marie Côte, PhD) This department's mission is to listen to the industry, to understand the challenges along the entire value chain, and to translate these into research needs in a dynamic partnership development process, taking advantage of the trans-disciplinary wealth offered by the establishment.
Come and meet them at Cosmetic360 on October 13 and 14! Or contact us at contact-filiè[email protected]
Find out more about CNRS Formation Entreprises : https://cnrsformation.cnrs.fr
Find out more about Trouver un Expert du CNRS : https://trouverunexpert.cnrs.fr
Find out more about the CNRS Corporate Relations Department: https://entreprise.cnrs.fr
