Beauty without Animal Testing

L’Oréal’s pioneering proprietary reconstructed skin technology provides a viable alternative to animal testing.

L’Oréal banned the practice of animal testing in 1989, more than 14 years before European legislation.

Pioneering proprietary reconstructed skin technology provide a reliable and viable alternative to animal testing. Our skin biology experts developed predictive in vitro tests on Episkin reconstructed tissue, a high-tech model of reconstructed human skin. As well as providing an infinite source of skin biology datas, this technology allows us to predict the safety and performance of a vast number of ingredient associations quickly and efficiently.

Democratizing Episkin to the entire beauty industry

As a giant step in the fight against animal testing, L’Oréal has decided to democratize and make accessible its technology providing a solution to the entire beauty industry and paving the way for beauty without animal testing.

Skin evaluation and performance prediction for all. Episkin has been crucial to help us continue to understand pigmentary process of different skin tones, by developing pigmented reconstructed skin from different human skin models (African, Caucasian, Asian types..). It’s about truly understanding and catering to the beauty needs of everyone.

Each year, L’Oréal’s predictive evaluation centre in France produces around 150,000 units of reconstructed tissue.

3 Episkin centers around the world:

Lyon-Gerland, France (since 2000)
Pudong, China (since 2014 )
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (since 2018)