Cosmetic Valley presents its "Eco-design & Innovation" training program
From agroecological sourcing to the industrial circularity of our cosmetic products "From the seed to the end of life of the finished product"
Training on Sunscreen Cosmetic Regulations
New for 2026
A one-day workshop to discover or improve your knowledge of the regulations applicable to
sunscreens.
Mark your calendars! Next session > Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - Registration is open, reserve your place!
A training day aimed at all stakeholders in the sector working on or wishing to expand
their developments in sun cosmetics.
Specific regulations that must be understood and integrated into development projects on the
solar.
A tailor-made training module aimed at all players in the cosmetic ecosystem value chain > brands, subcontractors, formulators, suppliers, laboratories, service providers – this training module concerns you all!
Educational objectives:
- Identify the fundamental principles of GMP for cosmetics in order to implement them
- Having the regulatory knowledge to ensure product quality
- To retain the requirements and characteristics of the ISO 22716 standard for the manufacturing, packaging, control, and storage of the product through practical discussions
Skills targeted:
- To understand and adopt Good Manufacturing Practices in Cosmetics, according to ISO 22716, and to plan for the implementation of GMP in the exercise of one's activity and in the internal organization within one's structure.
Prerequisites: None specific prerequisites
Format: In-person, 1 day (7 hours)
- Place : Cosmetic Valley Training Center , Maison de la Nouvelle Aquitaine, 19 rue d'Argenteuil, 75001 Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Tuesday, March 31, 2026 or Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member price : €650 excluding VAT / trainee
- Non-Member Rate : €780 excluding VAT / trainee
Click here to view the detailed training program
Register on the Cosmetic Valley Training platform > https://formation.cosmetic-valley.com/fr/
For any questions regarding our training programs or disability-related topics, please contact: Véronique Beaujouan > [email protected] - Tel: +33 6 95 62 72 51
Training "AI for Formulation - Mixing Plans"
New in 2025!
Save the dates in your diary and reserve your place > Session scheduled for December 10 & 11, 2025!
In the cosmetics industry, developing new formulations relies on a precise combination of ingredients with varying properties. Mix designs are AI-based statistical tools that optimize these formulations by exploring the influence of different components on the performance of the final product. This approach makes it possible to identify the best compositions while reducing the number of experiments required.
This training offers a structured and operational methodology for mastering mixing plans and their application in cosmetics, integrating constraints specific to formulations (stability, texture, cost, etc.).
Cosmetic formulators and researchers, R&D, Quality and Process engineers, Laboratory technicians involved in product development, this training is for you!
Educational objectives:
- Understand the fundamental principles of mixing plans and their relevance to cosmetic formulation
- Master the different types of mixing plans (with and without constraints, combined, screening)
- Acquire a methodology to optimize formulations
- Know how to analyze and interpret experimental results
- Use dedicated software (Design Expert) to model and predict the performance of formulations
Targeted skills:
- Design and optimize formulations using a statistical approach
- Identify constraints and influential parameters in a mixing plan
- Use software tools for data analysis and interpretation
- Apply screening and combined planning methods.
Prerequisites: No technical prerequisites required
- Format: In-person, 2 days (14 hours)
- Place : Cosmetic Valley Training Space , "Pivoine" Room (1st floor - elevator accessible to people with reduced mobility), 12 rue Saint-Michel, 28000 Chartres, 1 hour from Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 December 2025 or Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 June 2026
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member rate : €1,750 excluding VAT / trainee for the 2 days
- Non-Member Rate : €2,100 excluding VAT / trainee for the 2 days
Click here to view the detailed training program
Register on the Cosmetic Valley Training platform > https://formation.cosmetic-valley.com/fr/
Contact person for any questions regarding our training programs or disability issues: Véronique Beaujouan > [email protected] - Tel: 06 95 62 72 51
Cosmetic Valley is taking action in the regions to promote employment and training
Last week, COSMETIC VALLEY met with the talents of tomorrow by participating in two major job fairs : 48H Chrono in Chartres (Centre-Val de Loire) and the Val-de-Reuil Job Forum in Normandy.
🎯 Objective : to introduce and promote the professions in the perfumery-cosmetics sector to a wide audience – middle school students, high school students, job seekers and young graduates.
High-attendance events, welcoming between 4,500 and 6,000 visitors each, offering a privileged setting to promote the professions and opportunities of the perfume and cosmetics industry.
Through the presentation of the “core business” training courses of the sector, the Cosmetic Valley CV database and the job offers proposed by the network of members – actors throughout the value chain – the teams were able to inform, guide and support visitors in their professional reflection.
🔬 Highlights of these trade shows : workshops to discover cosmetic formulation , organized to awaken curiosity, spark interest and sometimes even trigger or reveal true vocations.
The quality of the exchanges with the audiences encountered confirms the importance of an active presence of the sector in the territories , as close as possible to the talents, in order to promote its know-how, its training and its professional opportunities.
Training “Stainless Steel, 100% Cosmetic”
New for 2024!
How to sustain your stainless steel installations?
Avoiding leaks, maintaining, cleaning well without too much: it also means saving water!
Industrialists, Laboratories, Quality control players, Maintenance or new works, Purchasing Department, Users of stainless steel tanks, this training module is aimed at you!
By their name alone, stainless steels benefit from a good certificate of trust among users. However, it happens that even the most basic precautions for use are not taken, generally due to ignorance of how corrosion protection works.
So , if contact with water seems harmless, it is nevertheless, where we least think about it, that problems can appear. They could be avoided if certain rules of design, manufacturing and use were respected.
educational goals
- Explain why stainless steel can rust.
- List the main families of stainless steels used in the pharmaceutical/cosmetic industry.
- Identify the main degradations of stainless steels.
- Recognize the impact of cleaning products on stainless steel equipment.
- Use the vocabulary dedicated to the dialogue between the user and the manufacturer-designer.
Targeted skills
- Choose a grade of stainless steel based on the parts of your equipment.
- Arguing with a supplier or subcontractor using the right terminology.
- Have a “whistleblower eye” regarding issues related to the use of stainless steels.
A point on maintenance operations will finalize this training.
- Format: Face-to-face, 1 day (7 hours)
- Place : “Beauty Hub” Training Space , Place Jean Moulin, 28000 Chartres, 1 hour from Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Thursday March 28 , 2024 or Thursday September 26, 2024
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member rate : €690 excluding tax /trainee
- Non-Member Price : €897 excluding tax / trainee
Consult the detailed training program below > https://www.cosmetic-valley.com/sites/default/files/users/user1715/Programme%20d%C3%A9taill%C3%A9%20Formation%20Acier%20Inoxydable %20100%25%20Cosm%C3%A9tique.pdf
Discover our new training program "Master Regulatory Compliance in the Age of AI"
A one-day strategic workshop!
Mark your calendars! Next session > Thursday, June 11, 2026 - Registration is open, reserve your place!
Faced with global regulatory fragmentation (MoCRA in the USA, CSAR in China, EU Green Deal, Regulation
(EC) No. 1223/2009…), compliance is no longer limited to an administrative obligation: it becomes a key issue
Sustainability issues. The era of surveillance by sampling is over; the authorities are deploying
now an exhaustive algorithmic surveillance system (the "Panopticon") to scan the market in real time
real.
This strategic training provides teams with an understanding of the technological mastery of AI.
necessary to respond to this new reality. The regulatory approach must evolve; it is a matter of moving
from a reactive management style, which had become risky and lagged behind the methods of the supervisory authorities, to a
proactive and AI-assisted "By-Design" compliance.
By mastering these tools, experts can secure the entire product lifecycle, from instant pre-validation of multi-market formulas to predictive cosmetovigilance. AI can provide companies with the assurance of robust compliance, capable of transforming regulatory complexity into a lever for trust and accelerated business growth.
Professionals working in the cosmetics industry, Regulatory Affairs, R&D, Formulation, Toxicology, and Scientific Marketing departments, this training is for you!!
Educational objectives:
- Demystifying AI technologies for regulatory compliance: Understanding the difference between risky public AI and secure enterprise AI solutions (RAGs) to protect your data
- Automating Product File Management (PIF/CPSR): Delegating the collection of technical data to AI (Part A)
- Securing global innovation from the design stage ("Shift Left"):
Strengthening monitoring and responsiveness (Vigilance 2.0): Continuously scanning social networks and databases - Managing risks and responsibility: Acquiring governance reflexes to protect confidentiality and ensure human validation of results
Skills targeted:
- Understanding the different types of AI tools available, those that are suitable for the regulatory issue, and their foreseeable evolution
- Identify security issues and respect for industrial confidentiality
- Understanding the compliance audit of formulas (EU/USA/China) in the R&D phase
- Automating the collection of technical data from the PIF
- Deploying proactive regulatory and cosmetovigilance monitoring
- Validate and rigorously control the results generated by AI
Prerequisites: Knowledge of basic cosmetic regulations. No computer or AI skills are required.
Format: In-person, 1 day (7 hours)
- Place : Cosmetic Valley Training Center , Maison de la Nouvelle Aquitaine, 19 rue d'Argenteuil, 75001 Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Thursday, June 11, 2026 or Tuesday, November 17, 2026
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member price : €650 excluding VAT / trainee
- Non-Member Rate : €780 excluding VAT / trainee
Click here to view the detailed training program
Register on the Cosmetic Valley Training platform > https://formation.cosmetic-valley.com/fr/
For any questions regarding our training programs or disability-related topics, please contact: Véronique Beaujouan > [email protected] - Tel: +33 6 95 62 72 51
Participate in our new Cosmetic Export Regulation training program > "Master the keys to compliance & market entry strategies in China"
Mark your calendars! Next session > Thursday, April 2, 2026 - Registration is open, reserve your place!
China is entering a New Era, where cosmetics is becoming a strategic industry, with a rise in R&D, biotech and AI, which are transforming the entire value chain.
Our trainer, Maria Galan Lozano, shares her Sino-European expertise in regulatory and scientific affairs and provides insightful guidance on how to better understand this rapidly changing market.
What entry strategies should our French brands adopt in this high-potential market?
How to strengthen differentiation where scientific evidence and regulatory compliance become essential?
This training module provides an in-depth guide to the cosmetics legislative framework in China, enabling successful navigation in compliance with existing cosmetics regulations and anticipating future legislation.
Cosmetics industry professionals involved in all phases of cosmetic product development (R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Export), Quality Assurance and Quality Control professionals, this training module is for you!
Educational objectives:
- Understanding the cosmetic legislation framework in China
- Identify the key regulations governing the marketing of cosmetic products in China
- Understanding the role of the national regulatory authority for cosmetic products marketed in China, the NMPA
- How to comply with and apply CSAR regulations
Skills targeted:
- Understanding and adapting to the specific regulations governing cosmetic products in China
- Anticipate the best strategy to adopt to enter this market
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisites other than an interest in better understanding the regulatory particularities of this high-potential market for players in our French cosmetics industry
Format: In-person, 1 day (7 hours)
- Place : Cosmetic Valley Training Center , Maison de la Nouvelle Aquitaine, 19 rue d'Argenteuil, 75001 Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Thursday, April 2, 2026 or Tuesday, December 1, 2026
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member price : €750 excluding VAT / trainee
- Non-Member Rate : €900 excluding VAT / trainee
Click here to view the detailed training program
Register on the Cosmetic Valley Training platform > https://formation.cosmetic-valley.com/fr/
For any questions regarding our training programs or disability-related topics, please contact: Véronique Beaujouan > [email protected] - Tel: +33 6 95 62 72 51
Participate in our "Good Manufacturing Practices in Cosmetics" training course - ISO 22716 standard
New for 2026
One day to train or update your knowledge, strengthen your understanding of GMP Cosmetics and their application!
Mark your calendars! Next session > Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - Registration is open, reserve your place!
A classic in terms of regulations, but an essential one...
We offer you a practical and dynamic training day, directly connected to
practical problems encountered in the cosmetics ecosystem, with concrete case studies and highlighting of the specific characteristics of the cosmetics industry.
A tailor-made training module aimed at all players in the cosmetic ecosystem value chain > brands, subcontractors, formulators, suppliers, laboratories, service providers – this training module concerns you all!
Educational objectives:
- Identify the fundamental principles of GMP for cosmetics in order to implement them
- Having the regulatory knowledge to ensure product quality
- To retain the requirements and characteristics of the ISO 22716 standard for the manufacturing, packaging, control, and storage of the product through practical discussions
Skills targeted:
- To understand and adopt Good Manufacturing Practices in Cosmetics, according to ISO 22716, and to plan for the implementation of GMP in the exercise of one's activity and in the internal organization within one's structure.
Prerequisites: None specific prerequisites
Format: In-person, 1 day (7 hours)
- Place : Cosmetic Valley Training Center , Maison de la Nouvelle Aquitaine, 19 rue d'Argenteuil, 75001 Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Tuesday, March 31, 2026 or Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member price : €650 excluding VAT / trainee
- Non-Member Rate : €780 excluding VAT / trainee
Click here to view the detailed training program
Register on the Cosmetic Valley Training platform > https://formation.cosmetic-valley.com/fr/
For any questions regarding our training programs or disability-related topics, please contact: Véronique Beaujouan > [email protected] - Tel: +33 6 95 62 72 51
Training course "Secure your Cosmetic Products & Ingredients"
Field Strategy & Operational Compliance in Europe
A day to transform your field experience into a truly effective, compliant, and cosmetic security strategy....
Next session > Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - Registration is open, reserve your place!
This one-day training course puts cosmetic product safety at the heart of your approach. With a
By focusing on real-life cases, your feedback, and exchanges between professionals, you will build a
practical mastery of toxicological assessment, monitoring and operational responses to situations
criticisms. Aimed at regulatory officials, toxicologists and project managers, it emphasizes
on field actions, risk anticipation and practical alignment with European requirements in
safety regulations (cosmetics regulations, CLP/REACH), while using all your professional experience.
Regulatory Affairs Officers or Managers (finished products and ingredients), Toxicologists or Safety Assessors, Representatives or Agents of Control and Inspection Authorities, this training is for you!
Educational objectives:
- Identify key European regulatory requirements (Cosmetics Regulation, REACH, CLP) related to product and ingredient safety
- Provide a critical opinion on the safety margins (MOS) and the safety report.
Identify deadlines in the event of a critical occurrence, such as an ingredient reclassification or an increase in adverse effects. - Organize continuous monitoring, integrating regulatory monitoring, cosmetovigilance and controlled communication with the authorities
Skills targeted:
- Understanding and applying European regulations relating to the safety of cosmetic products and their ingredients
- Justify the toxicological safety of a cosmetic product by providing an opinion on safety margins (SOM) and toxicological profiles
- Responding to a risky situation by leveraging relevant security data and regulatory requirements
- Actively contribute to post-market compliance and vigilance by coordinating internal and external communications (authorities, partners, consumers)
Prerequisite: Activity related to cosmetic regulatory affairs
Format: In-person, 1 day (7 hours)
- Place : Cosmetic Valley Training Center , Maison de la Nouvelle Aquitaine, 19 rue d'Argenteuil, 75001 Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Tuesday, March 10, 2026 or Thursday, November 26, 2026
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member price : €650 excluding VAT / trainee
- Non-Member Rate : €780 excluding VAT / trainee
Click here to view the detailed training program
Register on the Cosmetic Valley Training platform > https://formation.cosmetic-valley.com/fr/
For any questions regarding our training programs or disability-related topics, please contact: Véronique Beaujouan > [email protected] - Tel: +33 6 95 62 72 51
"Fundamentals of Cosmetic Regulations" Training Course
From idea to market launch...
The essential regulatory principles to master in order to secure your business and avoid pitfalls...
A new Cosmetic Valley training program for 2026!
Next session > Thursday, March 12, 2026 - Registration is open, reserve your place!
From idea to market launch,...
A customized training module for all stakeholders in the cosmetics industry.
Understanding the basics of the regulations that every player in the cosmetics industry must know how to master in order to secure their business.
Brands, Suppliers, Subcontractors, Distributors, Service Providers... This training is for you!
Educational objectives:
- Gain a concise and practical overview of the key stages in the development of a cosmetic product
- Identify the main regulatory obligations applicable to cosmetic products in Europe
- Analyze a simple situation to identify obvious non-conformities
- Use basic regulatory vocabulary appropriately
Skills targeted:
- Understanding the general regulatory framework governing cosmetic products in Europe
- Integrate best practices and anticipate key regulatory requirements to avoid common mistakes.
- Collaborate more effectively with a brand, laboratory, supplier, or distributor by mastering the common basics
- Identify the key impacts of regulations on one's professional activity
Prerequisites: None specific prerequisites
Format: In-person, 1 day (7 hours)
- Place : Cosmetic Valley Training Center , Maison de la Nouvelle Aquitaine, 19 rue d'Argenteuil, 75001 Paris
- Dates: 2 possible sessions > Thursday, March 12, 2026 or Tuesday, November 24, 2026
- Group of 4 to 10 trainees
- Member price : €650 excluding VAT / trainee
- Non-Member Rate : €780 excluding VAT / trainee
Click here to view the detailed training program
Register on the Cosmetic Valley Training platform > https://formation.cosmetic-valley.com/fr/
For any questions regarding our training programs or disability-related topics, please contact: Véronique Beaujouan > [email protected] - Tel: +33 6 95 62 72 51