[ Cathy and Hélène ] CAHE COSMETICS

Cathy and Hélène are the founders of the cosmetics brand [ CAHE COSMETICS ]

Year founded: 2022

Design and office location: France 🇫🇷

Raw material sourcing location: France 🇫🇷 and Europe 🇪🇺

Manufacturing and production location: Meaux, France 🇫🇷

Meet the founders

Hélène: After joining ISIPCA, a renowned cosmetics and perfumery school in Versailles, she discovered and developed her expertise in the field. This training sparked her ambition to become an entrepreneur. She discovered a fascinating world and met Cathy, who helped her expand her knowledge. She also spent two years working in the startup world. As a Business Developer seeking partnerships, she met many entrepreneurs and learned from their experiences, both their successes and the challenges they faced when launching their businesses. Deeply committed to social and environmental issues, she makes it a priority for their project to reflect their belief in finding solutions to these challenges through its values.

Cathy: Passionate about everything related to beauty since she was very young, she began studying cosmetics at the age of 15. Between her professional background (from beauty therapist to brand ambassador for luxury brands and sales representative) and her boundless passion for the field, she can now say that she is the beauty expert in their partnership. She loves giving advice to those around her and seeing how much they enjoy taking time for themselves. In her personal life, she is also interested in ecology and the environmental impact that our actions can have on the planet. All of this resonates with their project: that there are effective and ethical solutions to everyone's needs. With Cahé, she continues to do what she does best: offer beauty products that inspire, deliver results, and respect people and the planet.

About the brand

Founded by Cathy and Hélène to address the overconsumption and standardization of cosmetic products, the Cahé brand offers positive and natural facial care tailored to every stage of your life. They make it a priority to offer short ingredient lists and products that are easy to use. Each Beauty Oil has been tested with La crème de la crème to create unique synergies. Thus, with fewer than four products, a multitude of rituals are available to you. Simply adjust your blend of plant oils to get the care that suits your skin's needs, so you no longer need to use several creams or serums for every concern. Each oil can be used on its own or mixed in the palm of your hand with La crème de la crème. Revolutionize your beauty routine, personalize your care instantly!

Eco-responsible impact

Their solution is eco-responsible and aims to reduce the overconsumption of cosmetic products. On the one hand, with their instant personalization solution, they use the right product at the right time without waste. On the other hand, they offer two-in-one products with the cream and Café en terrasse oil, which can be used on the face and around the eyes to avoid buying two different products. They also do not offer samples but instead provide a travel-friendly jar that can be filled as desired. For the cream, they chose innovative and eco-designed packaging with their supplier Lablabo: Easily recyclable glass bottle, an airless system allowing for over 97% product dispensing, and a refill pouch made of easily recyclable PE that can be disposed of in the recycling bin. The pouch also helps reduce waste, plastic production, and their carbon footprint (lightweight and compact). For the oils, they also offer recycled and recyclable glass packaging. The dropper cap is also made of recycled plastic. Each of their products is sold without secondary packaging to prevent additional waste. For cleaner order shipping, they have implemented several solutions, such as a partnership with Hipli for a reusable packaging system that can be used over 100 times, as well as a padding solution made of recycled textile fiber that is infinitely recyclable in the textile recycling bin. Finally, they are members of the 1% for the Planet collective, committed to donating 1% of their turnover to environmental organizations.

The big pluses

Certified organic products and a Slow Cosmétique certified brand, encouraging a more conscious and responsible approach to beauty products by focusing on naturalness, effectiveness, and respect for the environment.

Brand values

♻️ Recycling ↓

For the oils: the entire packaging (bottle + cap) is easily recyclable: everything goes into the glass recycling stream (glass recycling bin). Recycled glass bottle: 60% PCR (Post Consumer Recycled) and 30% PIR (Post Industrial Recycled). Recycled plastic dropper: 40% PP-PIR. For the cream: lightweight and recyclable PE refill. The entire packaging is easily recyclable.

🌀 Zero-waste lifestyle ↓

The products do not have secondary packaging. The cream comes in a refillable bottle to reduce waste and the carbon footprint with airless technology. Clean shipping with Hipli and recycled and recyclable padding solutions. Constant commitment to ethical and respectful choices.

🇫🇷 Made in France ↓

- All products are made in France, in a family-run laboratory in Meaux (77)

🐨 Vegan ↓

- No ingredients derived from animal materials

- Human, animal, and plant health preserved

🌿 Organic / Bio ↓

- No petrochemicals, plastic polymers, or endocrine disruptors; products certified organic by the ECOCERT organization

🚺 Women Empowerment (Women Only) ↓

- Company founded by two young women

✅ Certified ↓

- The majority of raw materials are organic, and all products are certified organic by ECOCERT GREENLIFE according to the COSMOS ORGANIC standard.