• To limit the production of waste, especially plastic, bulk sale is a solution that is increasingly adopted.

  • The Pierre Fabre group, one of the world's leading laboratories for its dermato-cosmetic products, has been testing bulk product dispensers in pharmacies for several days.

  • Three pharmacies in the south-west have these devices being tested and one in Barcelona will be equipped with them at the start of the school year in September.

Every day, 476,000 bottles of shampoo are sold in France, i.e. nearly 174 million each year which end up either in the trash or in recycling.

And this consumption of plastic in the field of cosmetics is far from being limited to hair care alone.

To limit this source of pollution, some stores specializing in bulk sales have been offering shampoos in solid form for several years now, which avoid producing these bottles.

A zero waste trend in which one of the largest dermo-cosmetic laboratories in the world has decided to invest.

For the past few weeks, three pharmacies in the southwest of France have been selling five products from the Pierre Fabre group in this form.

Instead of being available on the shelves in their classic form, five body and hair hygiene formulas from the brands Klorane, Ducray or even A-Derma are offered in a wooden cabinet that strongly resembles a dispenser, such as a washing machine. coffee.

A machine in Barcelona in September

Whether in Toulouse, Colomiers or Graulhet, customers collect a bottle on their first purchase, choose their product and then refill their reusable glass bottle thanks to the fountains delivering the products of their choice.

A device tested beforehand in the group's LAB located in Toulouse and which is used to test the innovations of the laboratories with the general public.

“This zero-waste experience has been very popular with consumers who have come to visit us for over a year.

Once convinced, they come back with their bottle to refill it.

The best waste is the one we don't produce,” recalls Marie Chenal, notably responsible for the customer experience at Pierre-Fabre.

This experience was therefore logically extended to pharmacies.

In particular that of Jérôme Montbroussous, in Graulhet (Tarn) where the first fountain cabinet was installed.

“I am convinced that this is the future.

For the moment, people do not yet have the reflex, they have to get used to it.

But they are starting to do it little by little, they are getting information and we have positive feedback, ”says this pharmacist from a town of nearly 14,000 inhabitants, half an hour from Castres, the group's historic cradle.

The installation of the first machines in these three pharmacies “is a pilot phase”.

It will continue with the installation of another distributor in a pharmacy in Barcelona at the start of the school year in September.

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