Sometimes a simple decision can change your life. Case in point: When a young medical student named Jacques Courtin-Clarins decided to treat circulatory problems through massage, something strange started to happen. After their treatments, Clarins’ patients not only felt better, but they also started noticing smoother, healthier-looking skin in the process. It was this miraculous occurrence that prompted Clarins to devote himself to research. And what started off as a few simple botanical body oils ballooned into one of the world’s foremost beauty companies, spanning a presence in over 150 countries.

In 1954, Jacques Courtin-Clarins opened the first Clarins Institute de Beauté in Paris, France, where he developed treatments and products using natural botanical ingredients for the face and body. The first beauty company to employ 100 percent pure plant extracts, Clarins used only the best botanicals to complement the appealing textures and scents that made his luxurious products a pleasure to apply. Still a family-run business, Jacques’ sons, Dr. Olivier Courtin-Clarins and Christian Courtin-Clarins, continue on in the Clarins tradition today.

The brand’s equally impressive makeup collection, which is inspired by runway shows and loved by fashion icons around the world, is known for its ability to adapt to the demands of everyday life. Whether a woman wants all-out glamour or is primping in a taxicab, Clarins’ wide range of color products are up for the challenge. And just like their skin and body care, their makeup is also loaded with beneficial botanicals, which means the more you wear Clarins’ makeup, the more naturally beautiful your skin will be.

Clarins Laboratories

In 2007, Clarins Laboratories were the first on the selective distribution market to obtain GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) approval.

To ensure excellence in all its products, the Clarins group masters its production chain from A to Z. It has its own research laboratories in France, based in Pontoise.  They verify the effectiveness and stability of products through safety and tolerance testing, completed both in vitro and in vivo.

Most Clarins products are made in France at the Pontoise site. As for the fragrances, they come from a second laboratory based in Strasbourg. They are then distributed worldwide.
Managed by the quality department, manufacturing of the products is carried out according to strict health rules and always in compliance with good manufacturing practices.

Environmental laboratory management is provided by a specific department – the health and environmental safety department.

Ongoing Innovation

« We do not do anything that is not useful for cosmetics. »

With these words, Jacques Courtin-Clarins dictated the Clarins roadmap in 1976. And even today, some products stand out in the history of the Group through their incredible longevity. They are at the heart of the ongoing innovative process.

The Extra-Firming Cream, for example, has been helping women battle wrinkles and loss of facial skin firmness for more than thirty years. Since its launch in 1978, the formula has been enriched according to the new findings of the Clarins laboratories. In 1995, two active ingredients reinforced its regenerative effect through their neuroprotective action. They were followed in 2012 by four other active ingredients that this time targeted firmness links.

This approach, unique to the Clarins group, wants the formulas developed by the laboratories to be constantly improved. It is this innovation and discovery of new active ingredients that dictate the evolution of the skincare ranges. Ongoing innovation and novelty takes precedence for the company: a philosophy that is found in many products such as the Body Lift Cellulite Control product, a successor of the first anti-cellulite gel from 1966.

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« It all started when the other one said no », was what Jacques Courtin-Clarins always used to say.

In 1985, Jacques Courtin-Clarins presented a previously insurmountable challenge to chemical engineer, Lionel de Benetti: combine all the active ingredients that have an influence on the youth of the skin together, in a single product. For the chemist, anti-aging is a challenge: some ingredients are only soluble in water, others only in oil. That’s when the founder of Clarins got the idea of offering the treatment in two separate bottles, for the customer to mix together at the time of use. Double Serum was born.

With its eighteen active ingredients offered in two bottles, the product included all the ingredients known for enhancing the youth of the skin. Constantly improved – this is the open formula philosophy – the Double Serum formula has evolved in line with Clarins research findings.
Today, the seventh generation has twenty plant-based active ingredients and an effectiveness booster: cangzhu, a Chinese medicinal herb. Unprecedented testing on a multi-ethnic panel helped prove the effectiveness of this new formula.

But innovation did not stop at the scientific performance. The Double Serum dosage system today is contained in a single bottle with two compartments, each with a separate pump. The two key elements never come into contact, thereby preserving the effectiveness of the oil and water soluble active ingredients.  The mixture only happens at application, providing a sufficiently precise dosage to balance the ratio between oil and water, as close as possible to the composition of the hydrolipid film of the skin.

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