Le Secret Naturel

What they make

According to their website, Le Secret Naturel is a French natural and organic cosmetics maker in Bollène (Vaucluse, Provence), founded in 2002 by André Arnaud and Janine Blanchard, starting as a soap workshop before expanding into creams and balms made with regional vegetable oils. The company describes itself today as about twenty men and women, and separately states that its hands-on manufacturing team in its own laboratory is 100% female, with most products still hand-made rather than industrial. The range spans face care (balms, creams, cleansers, lip balms), body and hair items (body balms, body milk, solid perfumes), hygiene products (toothpaste, bath tablets, solid soaps), gift sets, and a signature essential-oil balm line, Les Baumes du Hibou. Formulas include Pyrenees donkey milk, fair-trade organic shea butter, Ayurvedic plant extracts, and essential oils. The site cites Cosmebio and Ecocert organic certification (minimum 95% natural ingredients) and Fair For Life-certified shea butter from Ghana and argan oil from Morocco. Since late 2023 the company has belonged to Groupe Industriel Montagut Développement, sister to Provençal soap maker Le Chatelard 1802.

• Handmade natural/organic face care: balms, creams, cleansers, and lip treatments
• Body and hair products: body balms, body milk, solid perfumes, hair care
• Natural hygiene items: toothpaste, bath tablets, solid soaps, shower products
• Signature essential-oil balm line "Les Baumes du Hibou" for massage and wellness use
• Gift and travel sets combining several product lines
• Formulations built on ingredients such as Pyrenees donkey milk, fair-trade organic shea butter, Ayurvedic plant extracts, and essential oils
• Cosmebio- and Ecocert-certified organic cosmetics, largely hand-made in the company's own Provence laboratory

Summary written by byeurope.eu based on the company’s own website; independently cross-checked against the same source. Not reviewed by the company.