Articles of French Atelier Catherine Masson

Articles of French atelier Catherine Masson combine delicacy of fragrances and nice matter with perfect designer’s craftsmanship of handiwork in one product.
In the very beginning of its creativity l’Atelier Catherine Masson sold aromatized little cushions made manually to accompany perfume articles of leading French perfume houses, such as Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Molinard and Caron. 

Today masters of L'Atelier Catherine Masson create unique items from fabric and natural vegetable fibre, for example, flax, silk, cotton or velour. Collection of the brand include cushions with embroidering, little sacks of various sizes, pyramids and artistic small bundles, filled with perfumes and decorated with artificial bunches of flowers and fruit. In the heart of French Provence, perfumers of Grass region, motherland of French Perfume, created 12 unique scents for perfuming collection of the atelier.
Slenderness and long capacity of aromatizers to inflate your home with inimitable and thrilling fragrances, make this collection more a piece of cosmetic products than just premise aromatizers.

Welcome to the perfumed world of Catherine Masson!

Cosmetic brand SUZANNE aux baines “BIO & CHARM” 

Suzanne aux bains may be treated as a trademark, which combines authentic French fascination and natural biologic base in its collection. The whole range of these brand products is certified with the stamp of ECOCERT, as the environmentally friendly products in its fabrication, and with the stamp of COSMEBIO as biological cosmetics, absolutely harmless for health.
Collection of the brand is represented by body creams, face creams, masks and scrubs, and also by toilet agents such as shower gels and hair shampoos.
All products of the range have natural active agents, thoroughly selected, in particular from plants of Mediterranean region of France in their composition. Vegetable base of the brand, represented by the composition of three basic major basic ingredients, including the oil of apricot stones, extracts from leaves and buds of linden and mallow flowers, provides cosmetic agents with tenderness, smoothness and rapid absorption into the body skin.
Without parabene, Phenoxi-ethanol, PEG, mineral oil and paraffin. 

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OFFICINEA 

Officinea was born in 2006 in the result of reckless dream and obsession of 10 years long. 

… of the dream to create cosmetics different from those, which are piling in shop shelves. Dreams to unite under the brand “made in France” all the cosmetics of highest effectiveness, cosmetics, which in its manufacturing complies with the words: ethics, ecology, biology and beauty... cosmetics of the 21^st century.

Officinea was founded in the result of reckless wish to realize:

… the idea to propose cosmetics to the customer, which he or she sees for the first time and has never heard about, cosmetics of optimal quality, which resource will be the combination of ecologically clean nature and up-to-date achievements of biology, cosmetics, which phased production, starting from concept to diffusing process, will be elaborated at the top intellectual, inventive and innovative level.

Officinea thrived as the result of profound knowledge of

… peculiarities of human skin, its functions, reasons of its natural and early maturing, its reaction to light, to pollution of environment, to oxidation and aggressive chemicals and climatic conditions, knowledge allowing to understand the nature of principal active agents and ingredients, which would be the base of effective cosmetics, cosmetics of beauty and healthy way of life.

This dream, this wish and this knowledge made it possible for Claire GAGLIOLO, 45 years old, PhD on cosmetology and pharmacology, to realize and create the COSMETICS, rare, noble, ethnically correct and environmentally friendly, which is today proposed for the Russian consumer for the first time.
Officinea is the cosmetics of ethnic nature, transparent one, which is expressed the manufacturer’s openness as for the formula of its compositions for the user, these cosmetics is environmentally free in its fabrication:
… transparent in composition: in description of biological content at our site you will find the full review of all components, their effective features on skin, percentage composition of principal active agents, and explanation of their effect on skin.
… transparent in manufacturing methods: in confirmation to the fact that the whole collection of the brand is labelled with Cosmébio and certified with ECOCERT – each part of fabrication corresponds to this fact: all the components of the good’s packing are bio-decomposable and can be recycled, including packing elements such as bands form cotton for decoration of the packing. That is why the brand refused making testers, since their conditioning does not meet the ecological standards and cannot be recycled or bio-decomposed.
… transparent “100 % France”: it means that all phases of fabrication are held in France: Officinea cosmetics are invented, fabricated, conditioned, stored in France and forwarded from there too.
… transparent in the sphere of compliance of all production stages with requirements and laws on certification of bio-cosmetics in Europe: Officinea guarantees pharmacological and dermatological phased control of the whole collection, manifested in the fact that products comply with regulations within its production according to the law of France, like, for example, absence of testing on animals, and even comply with the regulations above, like, for example, bacteriological control of agents’ content, and also the control over the goods’ packing in the course of their fabrication. 

Officinea trademark was created in France, in the country with extensive experience in high quality cosmetics, in the country, which is rich in talented scientists, working in the sphere of healing cosmetics development.

France is one of the first countries, starting serious investment into biological surveys aiming to manufacture environmentally friendly, absolutely harmless BIO cosmetics, organic, transparent, vegetable, natural and healthy cosmetics.

The major feature of the brand is the fact that the brand relied on biological surveys of pharmacists and biologists when creating biological formulae for its collection.

The aim of these surveys was search and selection of principal active agents, those basic components of cosmetic agents, which play the main role and bring expected effect to your skin.

Selection of these active agents, in accordance with standards of the French certificate ECOCERT and label Bio - Cosmébio, was laid on the la team of the brand, consisting of pharmacists, cosmetologists, chemists and biologists and located in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes region) and in Rennes-Mirabeau (Bouches-du-Rhône region). They conducted examinations and thorough selection of those active agents, which were selected for the basic composition of the brand’s cosmetic agents.
Surveys on texture of agents, as to touch, to smell, to absorbing capacity, to capacity of retention on skin (stability of emulsifying base), and mainly to effectiveness of their effect on skin were conducted in the lab, certified by ECOCERT, and products had been tested prior to the whole range of the brand was put to production, too.

Thus, we dare to state that the whole collection of the brand was reasoned, examined, created and fabricated exclusively in France.

Starting form concept to fabrication inclusive, at all stages of production, the brand Bio Officinea executes strict ecological and biological control:

- Verification of quality of basic products;

- Effect of the packing facility content (bottle, pump, tube) on the bio-content of the agent;

- Control of sanitation of principal agents;

- Control of stability of agents depending on seasonal temperature change;

- Dermatological control is also carried out in pharma-lab of the brand Bio Officinea;

- aiming to prevent allergic rash on skin, irritation of mucous membrane of eyes, the brand executes double control of products on skin of voluntary patients (not on animals). It is a supplementary step from the side of the brand, as the European certification is satisfied with, as a rule, results of single testing.
- one of the major control positions is the verification, made by the brand, of products’ stability in time and their preservation. As the brand’s products presuppose exclusion of chemical preservatives use, the brand uses only natural preservatives, which counteraction to bacteria is tested in laboratory conditions of the brand. Hereby in order to increase effectiveness and protect its customers against troubles while using the product without chemical preservatives, the brand carries out control on the 5^th strain, that is not an obligation according European standards of bacteriological control. The control process is made on the base of the specialized bacteriological lab in Bordeaux (Gironde area).

Fabrication process and conditioning of the Officinea brand products are made on the base of certified ECOCERT factory-atelier, situated in Rennes-Mirabeau town of Bouches-du-Rhône region. This is the most fundamental stage of the brands’ products fabrication.
Stencilled silk-graph printing on labels, packing bands, storing and forwarding.

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Graine de pastel natural cosmetics Pays d'OC on the base of oil form PASTEL plant

Source of blue colour: unique plant named by the well-known word PASTEL. Gained from leaves of this ancient plant, the blue pigment has not only the perfect shade of clear skies, but contains valuable useful properties of biologic and cosmetic character.
Praised by artists pastel symbolizes purity and tenderness thanks to its 13 colour nuances. The golden gift of Occitane land has started invading the world from the Renaissance epoch. The unique tree of this land named Cocagne makes the ancient land of the ocean-side French region famous, presently referred as D’Oc region. This plant created a wonderful triangle of three picturesque towns in this land: Toulouse-Albi-Carcassonne, presently referred to as the motherland of Pastel.

Used by Hippocrate for healing wounds and scratches, the oil of pastel extract, with the biologic name l’Isatis Tinctoria is referred to in pharmacy and staring from 1746 is widely used for healing dermatological diseases of skin.
Exactly this component of the plant was the base of creation of this cosmetic range - Graine de pastel . The oil possesses unique cosmetic features. It feeds, moistures, regenerates, revives and protects the skin against the environmental effect. The whole range of products Graine de pastel is based pastel oil and was dermatologically tested prior to commercialization.
Built in Toulouse enterprise Cocagne & Compagnie, having the ambition to bring a brand new natural ingredient to cosmetic products, raised and solved the task of creation of new natural cosmetic article, without admixture of artificial and chemical ingredients.

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ECLARITE – biologic cosmetics for professional beauty

Vitaminized products of the French brand ECLARITE is fully based on biological component.
The brand’s collection is not great, but has already proved its ambitious intentions, having gained positive assessment of French customers, who completely turned to bio-cosmetics. In France the brand is widely used in beauty centres and saloons of bio-cosmetic care, sale of the brand’s products is carried out exclusively in drugstores. Today you have a chance buy these valuable cosmetics for health. Try and assess it, share your opinions.

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The only make form the American continent, certified by the European label ECOCERT

History of DRUIDE originates in one of the mountain farms of Canadian chains - the Appalaches ...
More than 30 years ago the young farmer, Alain Renaud, raised his nanny goats at mountain hills of the Canadian village and was curious about the positive effect of mountain herbs on the human health. Thus was the initiation of cosmetics of presently known Canadian brand Druide.
Nowadays the brand produces more than 100 items of cosmetics of environmentally free manufacture, cosmetics, which are biologically natural and certified in full by European certificate EcoCert.
The brand’s philosophy can be briefly represented in the following basic features:

Nature & traditions

The brand’s principle lies in the following: we all live on one planet, our environment is also yours, that is why DRUIDE undertakes to use only environmentally friendly methods in its production. All the products of the band are bio-decomposable, with natural base, environmentally friendly packing and conditioning. Production methods of DRUIDE are certified as environmentally friendly methods, bringing no contamination to environment.

The whole range of products is certified by Ecocert:

• Without parabene

• Without nitrosamines

• Without synthetic colouring agents

• Without genetic modified organisms

• Without synthetic aromatizers

• Without components exposed to radiation

• Without synthetic anti-oxidizers

• Without component of Ethoxyl class

• Without synthetic emulsifiers

• Without glucole

• Without synthetic oils

• Without components of animal nature

• Without synthetic fibre

• Not tested on animals

• Without components of petroleum synthesis

• Priority in using components and ingredients of Fairtrade-Business on the base of mutual (fair) profit.

   

DRUIDE® respects the Ecocert certificate requirements, in particular:

• Packing is minimized to the limit. All the labels are made of bio-degrading raw and favourable for conditioned material recycling.
• Conditioning plastic materials are not used if they cannot be recycled.
• Biological ingredients stored during the production cycle are fully protected against direct and indirect contacts with environment and harmful substances
• The company doesn’t use mass media advertising, doesn’t produce paper advertisement, which can pollute environment.
• The brand’s top priority is completely based on further development and improvement of the products quality and the primary cost decreasing in order to reduce retail price and to attract more and more people to use environmentally-friendly and healthy cosmetic products.

Briefly: why you should choose DRUIDE brand:

      Total range of everyday use cosmetics for all family members.

High quality and effectiveness, despite of economical products use.

They say DRUIDE products are very economical, because you don’t need the big amount of them to get the immediate and desirable effect. The brand collection is very concentrated, with high amount of useful active agents and insignificant water content.

    The brand is organic.

All the collection is certificated by Ecocert 2003, the only brand of non-European origin on the territory of North America, that has received this European certificate.

    30 years of experience in cosmetic production.

The brand has one of the biggest scientific laboratories on natural cosmetics industry development on the American continent.

Cosmetic and toilet agents for the whole family.

Shampoos, conditioners, capillary hair agents, shower gel, soap, bath mousses, massage agents, tooth pastes, deodorants, the range Pur&Pure for future mothers, the range for the new-born children, the range based on the goat’s milk for mature skin and the range Citronnelle Aventure for those who often travel in the country.

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• gel - exfoliant face and body with  natural extracts and neutral pH
• gel - détoxifiant with natural extracts and neutral pH
• moisturizing cream anti-age
• body fluid moisturizer
• Duo face&body skincare

Cattier Laboratory

Cattier was founded in 1968 by Pierre Cattier, one of the initiators of the Harmonist movement. Fascinated by alternative medicine, he became involved in the development of clay-based products, both for medical and for cosmetic use. He
was a visionary who taught many of his contemporaries to use simple and natural ingredients.
Daniel Aressy, a pharmacist-cosmetologist specialized in natural cosmetology, took over the chairmanship of the company in 1987. He carries on the founder’s philosophy, formulating increasingly effective products made of natural ingredients. Under his leadership, the company shifted towards Ecological and Organic Cosmetics and joined the COSMEBIO association.
Since its creation, the Cattier Laboratory of Natural Cosmetology has placed its considerable know-how and expertise in service of beauty and well-being. Environmentally friendly and wishing to share with consumers the multiple benefits
of Nature, without harming it, Cattier Laboratory has designed a range of organically certified Beauty, Hygiene and Care products that are natural, gentle, pleasant and effective.
 

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 Savonnerie de Bormes was born in the sunny land of French Provence.

The collection is based on grandeur and tranquillity of landscapes of Provence, Toscana, and also of the Oriental ones. The whole culture of this region is based on mixture of cultures of multitude of peoples of this region, on their perfumes, traditions, artisan art and craftsmanship of hands.
The collection’s products render the tranquillity of morning awakening of villages, freshness of mountain lawns, tenderness of sunset, abundance of village markets and scents... scents of nature and odours of life, scents of flowers and fragrances of herbs to us. The collection is regularly expanded with addition of agents of cosmetology, based exclusively on virgin natural raw materials, with refined and elegant fragrances, odours for home and linen and also decorative articles for premises.
Today the collection of the trademark Savonnerie de Bormes has firmly entered the elite of French brands, exported almost to all large countries of the world.

Savonnerie de Bormes creates natural-cosmetics of high quality, environmentally friendly in the production process, using natural raw, acquired also through environmentally friendly method, under environment preservation conditions and ethnic development of southern underdeveloped countries of the Planet.
This approach makes the brand follow these principles while creating its collections, avoid using aromatizers of synthetic character, petroleum components, or chemical substitutes, which fabrication is connected with contamination of the environment.
Caring for human health, Savonnerie de Bormes uses only the component of natural, vegetable character, without parabene, artificial colouring agents, or components of animal origin. The range of Savonnerie de Bormes is есо-civil, environmentally free, and uses the packing in its production, which is gained from recyclable materials, uses no cellophane, which is presently a murderer of birds and fish. And finally, brand products and their components are not tested on animals.

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