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To explore everything while preserving the infinite potential of the plant world, extraordinary source of performance,
security and pleasure, Yves Rocher created Botanical Beauty®.
The five guiding principles of Botanical Beauty are the result of much work and investment in Yves Rocher’s plant research
Active principle #1
Basing our behaviour on the plant world
Exploring all the richness of the plant world.
Active principle #2
The plant world is our only source of inspiration
All our products are derived from plants.
Active principle #3
Understanding the plant world
Guaranteeing safety and quality without compromise.
Active principle #4
Protecting the plant world
Actively defending the environment.
Active principle #5
The plant world for all women
Making beauty accessible to all women.
ACTIVE EXTRACTS, IMPECCABLE FORMULAS, BOTANICAL BEAUTY IS A PROFESSION, OUR PROFESSION. THE PLANT WORLD IS AT THE HEART OF ALL OUR FORMULAS SINCE 50 YEARS.
100% botanical?
We don’t like rigid approaches. When the quality of our products and the security of our customers are dependent on it, our researchers authorize the use of synthetic ingredients to combine pleasure and security with the use of our products. This is notably the case with preservatives, which are always used in the minimum doses needed, present in some of our products to guarantee the protection of the formulas.
We never use ingredients of animal origin. Collagen is replaced at Yves Rocher with Polyosides from the Acacia tree. Organic plants and natural extraction are also systematically encouraged.
A FEW FIGURES
We select amongst 1,100 ingredients of plant origin, studied by our own researchers at our laboratories, those that are best adapted to the cosmetic benefit of each product as well as defining the most effective dose. Since 1959, Yves Rocher has secured more than 50 patents and over thirty new botanical actives are created and developed by our researchers every year.
MORE THAN A SIMPLE RESERVOIR OF INGREDIENTS, NATURE NEVER CEASES TO INSPIRE US. IT’S A WORLD OF INTELLIGENCE AND OF SENSUALITY THAT WE EXPLORE WITH RESPECT AND CURIOSITY.
The plant world, a source of well-being: We study the best of the botanical world and each plant’s specific virtues to integrate them into our products.
The plant world, a source of performance : Our twenty teams of scientists from various disciplines, discover, isolate and formulate from plants the active extracts and high-performance textures.
The plant world, a source of creation: the plant world contains the richest and most extraordinary color palette.
The plant world, a source of emotion: It inspires every new prestige perfume we create.
The plant world, a source of pleasure: The flavors, colors and perfumes.
DID YOU KNOW?
From the four corners of the world, our ethno-botanical missions, led by Jacques Rocher, explore native plants and reveal their new cosmetic properties.
THE PLANT WORLD IS ALIVE. THE BETTER WE KNOW IT THE BETTER WE CAN MASTER IT.
Botanical beauty tests, without compromise, the safety of each of its ingredients. It validates, without concession, the performance of each of its formulas. It’s only under these conditions that each formula is manufactured at Yves Rocher sites that have a triple certification for the environment, quality and safety.
Our finished products undergo strict testing for performance and tolerance and if these tests are not satisfactory, the products are not sold.
From prospecting for new plants, to our ethno-botanical missions, to our study of other cultures and our harvests, Botanical Beauty insists on the quality and traceability of its ingredients.
GOOD TO KNOW
Our formulation guide, which is very strict and is regularly updated by our laboratories lists:
- The ingredients that are botanically-based that should be privileged such as, floral waters (of which the majority are organic), oils extracted from plant waxes, mineral-based pigments, and plant-based cleansers.
- Ingredients that we ban include formaldehyde, any ingredient of animal origin (collagen, crimson from the kermes insect, etc.) triclosan, certain glycol ethers and any essential oils destined for baby products or for sensitive skins because of their strength.
- Also, no ingredient of animal origin ever enters into the composition of our products.
Botanical beauty tests, without compromise, the safety of each of its ingredients. It validates, without concession, the performance of each of its formulas. It’s only under these conditions that each formula is manufactured at Yves Rocher sites that have a triple certification for the environment, quality and safety.
Our finished products undergo strict testing for performance and tolerance and if these tests are not satisfactory, the products are not sold.
From prospecting for new plants, to our ethno-botanical missions, to our study of other cultures and our harvests, Botanical Beauty insists on the quality and traceability of its ingredients.
GOOD TO KNOW
Our formulation guide, which is very strict and is regularly updated by our laboratories lists:
- The ingredients that are botanically-based that should be privileged such as, floral waters (of which the majority are organic), oils extracted from plant waxes, mineral-based pigments, and plant-based cleansers.
- Ingredients that we ban include formaldehyde, any ingredient of animal origin (collagen, crimson from the kermes insect, etc.) triclosan, certain glycol ethers and any essential oils destined for baby products or for sensitive skins because of their strength.
- Also, no ingredient of animal origin ever enters into the composition of our products.
PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT IS EXPLOITING THE RICHNESS OF THE PLANT WORLD WITHOUT EVER PILLAGING AND ENSURING THAT BEFORE USING A PLANT SPECIES ONE DOES NOT MENACE THE PLANT, ITS FUTURE OR ITS ENVIRONMENT.
Yves Rocher has put in place a rigorous plant charter and packaging charter to limit our impact on the environment.
From our plants to our customers
Our distribution process also embraces the planet. From recycled cartons for the products we ship to our reusable shopping bags in-store.
Concrete commitments to nature
Alongside the United Nations Environment Programme’s, Plant for the Planet campaign, Yves Rocher has committed to planting 3 million trees in five years. Yves Rocher also has a foundation and a museum, The Végétarium, to educate and raise awareness about the necessity to protect nature.
ABOUT
Faced with the scarcity of Arnica Montana, and to protect this increasingly threatened species, Yves Rocher replaced it with Arnica Chamissonis, which is cultivated organically in our fields in La Gacilly.
NATURE BELONGS TO EVERYONE. NATURE IS WELCOMING AND AVAILABLE, ITS LANGUAGE, UNIVERSAL. GENEROUS AND ACCESSIBLE, NATURE SERVED AS AN EXAMPLE FOR YVES ROCHER’S RELATIONSHIP WITH WOMEN.
We are the only beauty company to master all these steps: harvester, manufacturer and distributor.
That is the reason why we can provide quality products at a fair price that remains accessible. For one vocation: beauty. For all women. Without exception.
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Each year, around the world, more than 30 million women chose, purchase and use Yves Rocher products.
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