{"id":25390,"date":"2026-07-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/?p=25390"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:35:52","slug":"layering-and-skincare-routines-take-center-stage-at-the-26th-cosmed-scientific-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/layering-and-skincare-routines-take-center-stage-at-the-26th-cosmed-scientific-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Layering and Skincare Routines Take Center Stage at the 26th Cosmed Scientific Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, more than one in two female consumers uses between 4 and 6 products on her face every day, and nearly 15 % apply 7 or more. This widespread adoption of \u201clayering\u201d is profoundly transforming beauty routines and presenting cosmetic laboratories with new formulation challenges. To address these challenges, Cosmed is bringing together scientific experts from the French cosmetics industry on September 29, 2026, in Montpellier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">150 scientific experts are expected from all over France<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For the cosmetics industry, the paradigm has shifted: the challenge is no longer to prove the efficacy of a single product, but to anticipate how it will behave when layered with others. To address this new challenge, the 26th edition of the Cosmed Scientific Congress will bring together 150 researchers, formulators, toxicologists, and R&amp;D managers from across France.<\/p><div class=\"indus-dans-articles indus-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;display: flex;justify-content: center;\" id=\"indus-3166971100\"><div class=\"indus-adlabel\">Advertising<\/div><div id=\"indus-2293625898\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/ad\/24742\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"site-industries-cosmetiques Two men speak during a Siemens videocast. 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Holding this conference in Montpellier highlights the dynamism of the Occitanie region. A true hub of excellence in biotechnology and life sciences, the region is now home to 724 cosmetics companies and nearly 8,000 jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date: September 29, 2026<br>Location: Le Corum, Place Charles de Gaulle, 34000 Montpellier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full program and registration on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/congres.cosmed.fr\/page\/informations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aujourd&rsquo;hui, plus d&rsquo;une consommatrice sur deux utilise entre 4 et 6 produits quotidiennement sur le visage, et pr\u00e8s de 15 % en appliquent 7 ou davantage. Cette g\u00e9n\u00e9ralisation du \u201clayering\u201d transforme profond\u00e9ment les usages de la beaut\u00e9 et pose aux laboratoires cosm\u00e9tiques de nouveaux enjeux de formulation. C&rsquo;est pour y r\u00e9pondre que Cosmed r\u00e9unit, le [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"external_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formulation"},"acf":{"nc":"gaelle@imagypress.com","nc2":"contact@cosmed.fr","nc3":"e.marquier@cosmed.fr","nc4":"","nc5":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25392,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25390\/revisions\/25392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}