Our products for patients and consumers

Our actions

Since 2006, Laboratoires Expanscience has increased its initiatives to ensure that its ingredients and products are safe for people and the environment. The objective is to meet patient and consumer expectations. Expanscience acts by limiting environmental toxins in its products and by communicating this openly and transparently.

Our 2015 commitments

• 100% of new skin-care products will be environmentally designed in 2015 (20% of the Dermo-Cosmetics activity's sales).
• Over the 2010-2015 period, an action plan to reduce the environmental impact of our top drug (Piasclédine 300) will be established.

Eco-design: ambitious action plans

In terms of packaging, a 3R approach (reduce, replace, recycle) has been deployed. Reducing the grammage of Mustela 750-mL body lotion bottles resulted in a nine-ton drop in the amount of plastic consumed annually. The partial incorporation of recycled plastic in the tubes, bottles and capsules of some standard products in the Stelatopia, Solaires and Stelaprotect lines of the Mustela brand has resulted in a further reduction of 4.4 tons in virgin plastic used.
These products' containers and inserts will also be eliminated or modified to limit the use of paper and cardboard, and will be printed using vegetable-oil-based inks.

Laboratoires Expanscience wants to go further by working on the environmental impact of design at the end of a product's life cycle. For example, life-cycle analyses (LCA) were performed in 2011 on certain products in the skin-care line to measure and correct their greatest environmental impacts.
Piasclédine® 300, a drug sold by Expanscience, has its own action plan to measure its impact on the environment and its residues in water so as to reduce them.

Naturalness: a Laboratoires Expanscience principle

Without uniform regulations regarding the concept of “natural”, Laboratoires Expanscience has found it necessary to define this principle as it applies to its skin-care products. To this end, it has used the Ecocert benchmark to define detailed specifications that each supplier must apply.

For skin-care products, Expanscience has banned the use of certain ingredients that consumers have raised concerns about or that are harmful to the environment. The Mustela Bébé products, for example, have thus been reformulated to meet consumers' growing desire for natural products, with the spotlight on ingredients taken from nature and formulas that are paraben-, phthalate- and phenoxyethanol-free. More generally, all of Expanscience's products undergo independent toxicology testing to guarantee that their raw materials are harmless.

Application of the REACH European Community regulations

In compliance with the REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances) European Community regulations, Laboratoires Expanscience evaluates the impact of all its substances on people and the environment. The organization deployed to analyze and supervise risks facilitates control of user safety all along the cosmetic and pharmaceutical supply chain.