Klorane
Rene Furterer
The Village of Avène
In Avène, a small village in the southwest of France that hugs the banks of the Orb River, flows a thermal spring - the source of a unique, pure water with remarkable soothing and calming properties.
Avène's mission
Our Purpose & Values
Dedicated to sensitive skin and improving quality of life for all skin types, leveraging pharmaceutical and dermatological heritage and expertise.
Values
Strict Quality Guidelines
Laboratoires Dermatologiques Avène rigorously tests every formula with the utmost stringency to ensure safety and tolerance. Dermatologists are involved from product comcept and development, through series of pre-clinical and clinical tests on a substancial number of patients. Our formulas and the toxicology profile of each, individual ingredient are audited by scientists. All clinical studies are conducted under medical control ensuring the utmost respect for sensitive skin.
Values
Protecting Our Resources
Avène Thermal Spring emerges within a protected site in the Haut-Languedoc Regional Park in the South of France. The untouched biodiversity and low rate of human activities ensure the Water remains untouched from modern-day technology, pollution and contamination that could distrupt the composition.
Values
Avène Thermal Spring Water
Rain water filters down and sets off on a 50-year journey in the deepest and oldest layers, where it becomes infused with trace elements, silicates and comes into contact with a unique microflora: Aqua. Dolomiae. Avène Thermal Spring Water emerges from the Sainte-Odile Spring, its composition and flow never changing.
Since 1736
History
Avène Thermal Spring Water has been soothing sensitive skin since the late 18th century, when its curative properties were originally discovered.