What if we anticipated toxicological risks right from the packaging design stage?

What if we anticipated toxicological risks right from the packaging design stage?

Gaining a better understanding of migration mechanisms in cosmetics, with packaging made from virgin or recycled materials, developing a digital risk assessment tool, training and informing the sector, etc. are the objectives of the COSMETOPACK®II group, which focuses on interactions between contents and containers.

Join us and participate in:

• Our Research Programs
• The development of our digital solution
• Our training courses

Our training:

With our wealth of experience in cooperation between different professions in the cosmetics industry, we have come to understand that one of the obstacles is often linked to the complexity and lack of knowledge of each other's professions. That is why we have organized two days of interactive training, alternating between practice and theory, on January 22 and 23, 2026.

• Day1: Container-content interactions in cosmetics (COS08)
  Come and learn about the richness of these two professions and their necessary interactions, as well as the constraints associated with recycled materials.
• Day 2: Cosmetic regulations and safety assessment (COS09)
  Come and learn about current and upcoming cosmetic regulations (SCCS), as well as the CosmetoPack® approach.

During this training course, you will be immersed in the heart of the analysis laboratories for interactive demonstrations of analytical methods, cosmetic formulation, and plastic packaging testing. Laboratory technicians and our members will explain the key points and answer your questions.

Training location: ITECH Entreprise, 69130 Écully (near Lyon)

Our Research Programs

Join us and become a member of our scientific advisory board. You will be able to:

• Guide thesis programs and other ANR project files, etc.
• Understand the issues
• Highlight your issues
• Compare your knowledge with your peers and committee members

One of our missions is to generate scientific knowledge in order to:

• Feed the profession with new data
• Consolidate applied studies that feed into our digital decision-making tool
• Propose criteria for choosing materials

We have already conducted several studies, including one on the reliability of food simulants used today and the benefits of opting for simulants specific to cosmetics. It took us more than 6,000 plastic samples and 2,000 GPC MS-MS measurements to complete this study.

We are continuing our work with several research topics in editing:

The alteration of the properties of packaging plastics caused by migration out of and into the plastic (migration of certain ingredients in the cosmetic product that can modify the barrier and have a plasticizing effect).

Loss of barrier properties in packaging caused by repeated recycling: degradation of polymers. What are the consequences for migration rates? How can this be measured and anticipated?

Our digital solution

Software designed by and for the needs of the cosmetics industry

• From digital packaging design to migration risk assessment
• Useful before, during, and after packaging development to adjust it and anticipate risks
• Specific displays for plastics manufacturers, cosmeticians, and chemists (reference units)
• Customization of your databases, in complete confidentiality
• No other solution exists on the marke

This unique digital tool provides the industry with a means of managing material data and assessing the compliance of cosmetic products.
This innovative solution allows non-experts, in just a few minutes, to:

• quickly assess the safety of their packaging...
• use a reliable source of data on materials...
• ensure compliance with legislation
• customize their data (materials, packaging, safety criteria)
• ...