Our Commitments

BIODERMA is a NAOS brand whose mission is to lastingly preserve healthy skin.
With the utmost respect for the skin's natural balance, our care products are developed using a positive approach without compromising on dermatological safety.

Our requirements for dermatological safety

We require that all our products respect, and often go beyond, the strictest recommendations issued by health authorities and dermatology learning societies.

Systematic, large-scale clinical studies

Our products are subject to systematic safety and efficacy tests.

All our products undergo tolerance tests under the supervision of independent expert dermatologists, allergists and toxicologists from around the world. Over the last few years, more than 1000 clinical studies have been undertaken in almost 30 different countries. They led to regular publications in leading scientific journals.

Rigorous cosmetovigilance

Safety and respect for all types of sensitivities are our priority. Beyond our ecobiological principles for selecting ingredients and our stringent approval process, we have implemented rigorous monitoring of cosmetovigilance. It is an international alert procedure, enabling each adverse effect and every case of intolerance to be analysed.

To date, less than one case in every 1,000,000 products sold has been reported to us.

Continuous regulatory monitoring

All of our products comply with current international regulations. This includes EU regulations, which offer some of the highest consumer protection levels anywhere in the world. All of our products comply with current international regulations. This includes EU regulations, which offer some of the highest consumer protection levels anywhere in the world.

Our selection and manufacturing processis rigorously controlled

We are committed to controlling the origin and the full traceability of our raw materials. Each ingredient must respect strict biological efficacy and dermatological safety criteria.

Our approach: forging links with communities and supporting everyone, together.

Promoting dermatology worldwide

The WORLD RENDEZ-VOUS ON DERMATOLOGY organised by BIODERMA

The "World Rendez-Vous on Dermatology" is a unique meeting place that brings together the greatest international experts every two years to discuss the latest advances in dermatological research.

We are actively helping to share dermatological knowledge between doctors from around the world and driving research in fundamental biology.

420 participants, 42 nationalities, conferences and workshops... to promote dermatology together and provide better care for skin health.

Learn more about the World Rendez-vous

Respect for the environment and land and marine ecosystems

Our mission is first and foremost to take care. Taking care of the skin, taking care of the person, but also taking care of the world around us, of our planet.

Protecting the environment is at the heart of our daily concerns. For several years now, we have therefore initiated a transformation program to significantly reduce our impact on the environment at all levels of the value chain of our products.

Because at NAOS, the way we do things is still more important than the things we do. We are committed to proving that it is possible to combine innovation, growth and reducing our environmental impact.

Our concrete actions

Transparency about our products

At NAOS, transparency is a daily commitment to give everyone the ability to understand and choose the right product. With complete autonomy.

This is why we have created Ask.NAOS, a platform for information on our formulation policy and the composition of NAOS brand products (BIODERMA, Institut Esthederm, Etat Pur). For all users and prescribers of our products, the nature, origin and role of our ingredients as well as our patents and technologies are deciphered in full exhaustively.

Continuous improvement of our formulas

We have no preconceived ideas about our ingredients, the important thing is not the exclusion but the usefulness of each of them. It is the choice of a positive formulation to give the best for the health of the skin.

In addition, over and above the regulations, we are attentive to the opinions issued by the European Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety, particularly with regard to the use of controversial ingredients: endocrine disruptors, irritants or environmental pollutants. Any suspicion about an ingredient - validated by scientific consensus - initiates a process of elimination or substitution of this ingredient.

A vigilant sun formulation

We mainly select fat-soluble sunscreens (without affinity to water) and optimize the way they are integrated into our products to allow the highest possible level of water resistance.

This approach guarantees that the sun protection is well maintained on the skin and limits the impact of sun filters on the marine ecosystem to better respect it. Tests carried out by independent bodies have proven that our products are non-toxic for corals and do not cause coral bleaching. These tests have also shown that our filters have no impact on the photosynthesis activity of marine algae.

We therefore aim to control all macro and micro pollutants that may be poorly tolerated by the skin and which could be detrimental to biodiversity.

The positive evolution of our product footprint

Every day, we commit ourselves as much as possible to :

Developing large formats: across our entire portfolio, we have been pioneers in offering our consumers large-volume products. We are committed to continuing this approach in order to consume less material.

Limit our over-packaging: this is why a large number of our products do not have boxes or leaflets.

Commit to a sustainable procurement cycle, especially for our cardboard boxes, which come from sustainably managed forests with the FSC label.

Guarantee the traceability of the entire production chain and the environmental involvement of our partners: we work with producers who guarantee perfect transparency, and favour those who are certified.

Reduce and recycle our industrial and functional waste from the different sites of the company.