Protecting the marine environment : an issue for tomorrow's cosmetics
Hélène Orliac, 55 ans, a rejoint la FEBEA (Fédération des Entreprises de la Beauté) en 2019 pour prendre en charge la direction des Affaires Économiques, Environnementales et Internationales. De formation Ingénieure en Agronomie et Industries Alimentaires (E.N.S.A.I.A. Nancy), Hélène Orliac a fait toute sa carrière dans l’industrie cosmétique chez Bourjois, Rochas, P&G et CHANEL où elle a occupé des fonctions de Direction Qualité, Production et de Développement de nouveaux produits. À partir de 2011, elle se consacre aux métiers de l’Environnement et de la RSE (Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises) chez CHANEL et complète sa formation par un cursus en Environnement et Développement durable (CHEDD Ecole Centrale 2012-2013).
The French cosmetics companies have long been aware of environmental issues, including the need to preserve marine ecosystems. They are particularly vigilant about the composition of their products. Beyond individual solutions, the sector is looking for collective responses such as removing of plastic microbeads from formulations, which has been put in place before the law imposed it. To go further, companies need scientific methodologies and accessible tools that would help to assess the risks of some substances or materials that end up in the ocean, and to be able to better define the measures to be taken. The field is extremely large, the challenges are numerous, and the cosmetics sector wishes to play its role in building a sustainable future that preserves this precious asset that is the ocean.