It is then sent for surface treatment to a local biological sewage treatment plant or our filtering gardens. The effluent from the production unit is first separated according to its physicochemical characteristics to undergo appropriate pre-treatment. In this way, we would like to return all water treated in one of our production sites to the natural environment. The project is based on an innovative water treatment process that combines two complementary pre-treatment and phytorestauration solutions. Here, we take a look at what one company, CHIMEX, is doing to improve the production process to become more environmentally friendly.Ĭould you describe the principle of your 100% clear water initiative in a few words?Īs part of its sustainable development policy CHIMEX, a subsidiary of the L’Oréal group, specialising in the development of environmentally friendly processes for the production of ingredients for fine chemicals, set up the 100% Clear Water initiative. Sustainability in particular is a trend sweeping all industries. Water is a component of virtually every personal care and cosmetic product and as such, H 2O has been selected as the show theme for this year’s in-cosmetics, demonstrating how important it is for the industry to keep up to date with the latest innovations in water – both as an active ingredient and its use during processing. In the run up to the event, L’Oréal subsidiary CHIMEX explains what it is doing to make the cosmetics production process more sustainableĢ013 is the UN’s Interntional Year of Water Cooperation and as the world’s politicians debate water use on a global scale, the cosmetics industry cannot afford to ignore the way in which this vital element is used during the creation of personal care products. The head office of L'Oréal in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine is named Centre Eugène Schueller.The show theme at 2013\'s in-cosmetics will be H 2O. In 2017, Liliane Bettencourt was the wealthiest woman in the world, with holdings estimated at US$39.5 billion. Françoise Meyers is married to Jean-Pierre Meyers, whose rabbi grandfather was murdered in Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp. Schueller's daughter, Liliane Bettencourt, was the widow of André Bettencourt with whom she had one daughter, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, chairwoman of L'Oréal's board of directors and according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index the richest woman in the world and the 12th richest person in the world, with a net worth of USD 94,9 Billion as of January 2022. This involvement was extensively researched by Michael Bar-Zohar in his book, Bitter Scent. L'Oréal hired several members of the group as executives after World War II, such as Jacques Corrèze, who served as CEO of the US operation. La Cagoule was a violent French fascist-leaning, antisemitic and anti- communist group whose leader formed a political party Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR, Social Revolutionary Movement) which in Occupied France supported the Vichy collaboration with the conquerors from Nazi Germany. Support for fascism ĭuring the early twentieth century, Schueller provided financial support and held meetings for La Cagoule at L'Oréal headquarters. The guiding principles of the company that would become L'Oréal were put into place from the start: research and innovation in the interest of beauty.
In 1909, he registered his company, the Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux, the future L'Oréal.
He formulated and manufactured his own products, and sold them to Parisian hairdressers. Schueller developed in 1907 an innovative hair-color formula, which he called Oréale. As a young French chemist of Alsatian paternal origin, Schueller graduated in 1904 from the Institut de Chimie Appliquée de Paris (now Chimie ParisTech).
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