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Two years after its launch, TRASCE brings together nearly twenty brands, suppliers, and partners around a shared objective: making the cosmetics industry more traceable, more responsible, and more resilient.
The 2025 Annual Report highlights:
- A unique collective dynamic: an equitable governance model, shared decision-making, and consensus-based steering
- Tangible results: 951 suppliers on-boarded, 8,838 products traced, and an average transparency score of 67%
- Major sector-wide progress: two pilot supply chains (coconut and timber) made it possible to identify key risks and co-develop remediation plans in collaboration with NGOs and experts.
- A common methodology: a shared language, shared indicators, and a common traceability platform, Transparency-One.
By pooling their expertise, TRASCE members demonstrate that a compliance challenge can be transformed into a driver of innovation, resilience, and trust for the entire value chain.
About
TRASCE (TRaceability Alliance for Sustainable CosmEtics) is a consortium launched in February 2023 by 15 leaders in the cosmetics industry to improve the traceability of their supply chains. Initiated by Chanel, this industrial alliance, bringing together Albéa, Chanel, Clarins, Dior, The Estée Lauder Companies, GPA Global, thanks to the commitment of Cosfibel, Groupe Pochet, L’Occitane en Provence, L’Oréal, Susonity, Neyret, Nuxe, Sensient, Shiseido and Sisley, aims to accelerate the sustainable transformation of supply chains. In July 2024, Groupe Rocher, NAOS and Laboratoires Expanscience joined the consortium as Regular Members. The FEBEA (Fédération des Entreprises de la Beauté) also supports this project as an official sponsor.
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CHANEL Parfums Beauté
2023
At the genesis of the project, the Maison CHANEL drew on its own experience to emphasize the need for a collective response to the challenges faced by the sector: “The essential and demanding work of mapping certain supply chains carried out in recent years has allowed us to grasp the main limitations of this exercise. It is sometimes quite difficult for a single contracting party to convince distant-tier suppliers to commit to this approach, especially when we do not interact with them directly or when they are not subject to the same regulatory requirements. With this in mind, we proposed that industry players join forces to trace our supply chains as far and as quickly as possible.”
— Julien Garry, International Director of Purchasing and Packaging Development Innovation
Groupe Rocher
2024
“More than ever, we are convinced that it is through the strength of the collective that we will be able to deepen our knowledge of our supply chains, while touching on other types of raw materials as well as those related to our packaging. With a view to improving practices across our entire supply chains to make them ever more sustainable and responsible, TRASCE will enable us to accelerate on all these issues and encourage even closer collaboration with all our partners.”
— Marion Decroix, Sustainability and Quality Director
Susonity
2023
“As a major supplier of cosmetic ingredients, we are convinced of the need to align the industry around a single traceability tool and to establish a common methodology. In doing so, TRASCE could even serve as a model for other industries facing the same challenges in supply chain transparency. Harmonization and multi-stakeholder dialogue are essential to promoting the objectives of the TRASCE consortium and contributing to Susonity’s overall sustainability strategy.”
— Karl Hensen, Quality Director “Surface Solution
NAOS
2024
“As a committed and engaging company, NAOS has always had a vocation to love, understand and care for the living. Very early on, we established our transparency approach as one of our fundamental pillars, which led to the launch of our tool Ask. NAOS, a digital platform that decodes the composition of our brands’ products. Our membership of the TRASCE consortium confirms our commitment to making the cosmetics industry ever more sustainable.”
— Stéphane Faustin-Leybach, Purchasing Director
Laboratoires Expanscience
2024
“At Laboratoires Expanscience, we know that more than half of our environmental impact occurs before the manufacturing process. As a certified B-Corp company, we want to play a part in the transition of the sector and society and are convinced that well-being is a collective issue. Joining the TRASCE consortium enables us to continue our long-standing work on the traceability of our supply chains, while collaborating with industry players to bring about strong and lasting change in the supply chains, cultivation methods and production of the materials we use in our products.”
— Laurent Schatz, Purchasing Director
Albéa Cosmetics
2023
“Cosmetics packaging will have to revolutionize in the years to come, particularly to adapt to changing regulations. We’ve been working on these issues for years. As a global player in the sector, it soon became clear to us that we needed to create a common methodology to harmonize needs across the industry and achieve our goals by involving as many stakeholders as possible.”
— Gilles Swyngedauw, Vice President CSR and product sustainability
Clarins Group
2023
“The Clarins Group has been working for many years to strengthen the knowledge of its partners and the management of its ecosystem. Our commitment to the TRASCE project, alongside other players in the cosmetics industry, is to pool our demands in order to strengthen our duty of care across the entire value chain. It is this same spirit of responsibility and openness that led us last year to launch the Clarins T.R.U.S.T platform, which brings transparency to consumers.”
— Guillaume Lascourrèges, Director of Responsible Development
Cosfibel powered by GPA Global
2023
“Thanks to our participation in the TRASCE consortium, we are committing ourselves to an ambitious, innovative, and collective approach to supply chain traceability. I am delighted that our Group is playing a leading role alongside key players in the cosmetics industry, and in line with our long-standing commitment to this issue, which is so essential to build a sustainable industry that respects its ecosystem.”
— Marie Sermania, CEO
Parfums Christian DIOR
2023
“TRASCE enables us to collectively accelerate our understanding and control of our supply chains, and as such, is an essential tool in our responsible purchasing policies.”
— François Guisnet, Global Procurement Director
L’Occitane en Provence
2023
“Beyond data collection, the strength of the TRASCE consortium lies in the vision we all share of the need to make supply chains more sustainable and resilient. This philosophy is the basis for a successful collaboration with our suppliers and needs to be embedded into dialogues with upstream supply chain partners.”
— Katia Michieletto, Sustainability Director
L’Oréal Group
2023
“Collective action is the key to build a sustainable world. TRASCE gives us the power to understand in depth and transform our supply chains, working hand-in-hand with our partners to improve environmental and social impact. We are proud to be part of this coalition. It is a collective engagement to continue unlocking supply chain traceability with our global eco-system”.
— Daniel Seh, Chief Procurement Officer
Pochet Group
2023
“In-depth knowledge of our supply chains is essential for robust risk management. It is part of our strategic vision of partnerships with our customers and suppliers and reinforces our commitment to responsible purchasing. Thanks to TRASCE, we can work collectively to increase efficiency, reduce environmental impact and improve working conditions. Together, we can transform our supply chains for a more sustainable and resilient future.”
— Serge Le Hénaff, Group Chief Procurement Officer
Maison Neyret
2023
“In-depth knowledge and control of our supply chains are essential strategic elements to support our customers and to manage our CSR and logistics risks. Therefore, TRASCE is an integral part of our vision for the future.”
— Benoit Neyret, CEO
Sensient Cosmetic Technologies
2023
“This data collection process on supply chains has no other purpose than to improve the collective knowledge of the sectors in scope in order to assess the risks. This will enable a greater number of players to strengthen their commitment to responsible sourcing.”
— Gaelle Frere, President
Shiseido EMEA
2023
“We are proud to see that it is around the notions of responsibility, sustainability and transparency of our supply chains that we have been able to join forces and thus contribute to raising the standards of the cosmetics industry.”
— Morgane Toutain, Chief Procurement Officer
Sisley
2023
“Supply chain traceability is a complex subject, and we see a collaborative approach as a key success factor. The use of a common collection tool limits the burden on our partners, and thus engages our supply chain players whatever their size.”
— Alexandra Barthélémy, Group Purchasing Director
The Estée Lauder Companies
2023
“Through shared digital tools and close collaboration, we have an opportunity to move the needle in transparency and elevate how we source responsibility, with attention to potential impacts on people and the environment.”
— Mindi DeLeary, Vice President, Responsible Sourcing, Sustainability and Upstream Procurement
Nuxe
2023
“By committing as a founding member of the TRASCE consortium, alongside many brands and suppliers in the cosmetics industry, Nuxe reaffirms its dedication to accelerating its traceability efforts, which have been underway for several years, across its entire ingredient portfolio.Aware that the challenges are shared by all players in the cosmetics industry, we are convinced that with the strength of the collective and the commitment of our suppliers, we will be able to address the environmental and societal issues within our supply chains.”
— Sabrina Collet, Head of Ingredient R&D