TRASCE: Making the cosmetics industry more transparent, more responsible, and more resilient

The cosmetics industry’s value chains are particularly complex and fragmented. The unprecedented health, climate, and geopolitical crises of recent years—which have caused disruptions in supply chains—have highlighted these vulnerabilities. In this context, and in light of the strengthening regulatory framework (the European Duty of Care Directive, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and the European Regulation on Deforestation and Forest Degradation), companies are called upon to comply with these new requirements and accelerate their transition toward a more sustainable and resilient model.
To meet this goal, the TRASCE consortium offers a collective and unified approach through a shared traceability platform, Transparency One, an ISN company.
Initiated by CHANEL, TRASCE brings together brands and suppliers in the beauty sector to improve the traceability of the cosmetics industry’s supply chains. The consortium is supported by FEBEA (Federation of Beauty Companies).

Two years after its launch, TRASCE now brings together nearly twenty brands, suppliers, and partners around a common goal: to make the cosmetics industry more transparent, more responsible, and more resilient.

This 2025 annual report highlights:

An unprecedented collective dynamic: a fair governance model, shared decision-making, and consensus-based leadership.

Concrete results: 951 participating suppliers, 8,838 traceable products, and an average transparency score of 67%.

Major sector-specific advances: two pilot supply chains (coconut and wood) have helped identify key risks and co-develop remediation plans with NGOs and experts.

A common methodology: a shared language, aligned indicators, and a single traceability tool, Transparency-One.
By pooling their expertise, TRASCE members demonstrate that it is possible to transform a compliance challenge into a driver of innovation, resilience, and trust for the entire supply chain.
At the project’s inception, CHANEL drew on its own experience to emphasize the need for a collective response to the challenges facing the sector: “The essential and demanding work of mapping certain supply chains carried out in recent years has allowed us to understand the main limitations of this process. It can sometimes be quite difficult for a single buyer to convince suppliers further down the supply chain to commit to this process, especially when we do not interact directly with them or when they are not subject to the same regulatory requirements. Based on this observation, we proposed that industry stakeholders join forces to trace our supply chains as far and as quickly as possible.”