For 100 years, L'Oréal has been a leader in Beauty Care innovation. We owe that success in part to innovators like you: inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers and forward-looking companies. With a strong record of successfully working with innovators outside our company, we are pleased to invite you to join our dedicated open source initiative, L'Oréal’s Partner & Innovate program.

If you have a groundbreaking idea or technology that could make a difference in Beauty Care, we want to hear from you. Working with our innovation team, research departments and marketing professionals, we will leverage your innovation into a winning product.

We believe that powerful ideas can come from anywhere. And every day, innovators like you validate that belief.

Jean-François Grollier
Executive Vice President,
R & D, L'Oréal
Partnering with L´Oréal

L´Oréal has over 100 active scientific partnerships worldwide. Our innovation partnerships extend to inventors, entrepreneurs, research institutes, contract researchers, universities, labs and more.

Featured Partner Projects
Working with a specialist in high-tech pigments, we developed a remarkable material for colour-rich cosmetics.
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Teaming up with an innovator in the textile and food industries, we developed formulations having better sensorial and optical properties.
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How to Submit Your Idea L´Oréal’s Innovation Record

Do you have a new idea or technology that is a good fit for L´Oréal and our consumers? Click here to review our simple submission process.

L´Oréal is the number one company in Beauty Care, with 25 international brands sold in 130 countries.
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We currently have innovation needs in over 30 areas. We’re particularly interested in ideas or technologies in the following categories:

  1. 1. Hair
  2. 2. Skin
  3. 3. Tailored, Personalized Beauty         Care
  4. 4. Innovative materials
  5. 5. Color
  6. 6. Environmentally friendly                 technologies
  7. 7. Preservatives, anti-microbial         technologies