Le Petit Marseillais

About Le Petit Marseillais

Le Petit Marseillais is a French body care brand founded in 1981 by Bernard Lengellé and relaunched in supermarkets in 1985. It belonged to Groupe Vendôme, a company based in Dijon, which Johnson & Johnson acquired in 2006. The range centres on shower gels, soaps and hair care.

Shower gels, soaps and scent

Le Petit Marseillais has 79 products in INCIMondo, in line with the brand's core: shower gels first, then hair care, bar soaps and body care. The five most frequent ingredients after water are PARFUM, GLYCERIN, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CHLORIDE and SODIUM BENZOATE.

Fragrance is almost a constant – 77 of the 79 formulas (97%). The other tracked groups are marginal: silicones in 9 (11%), and parabens and denatured alcohol (ALCOHOL DENAT.) in 1 formula each (1%).

For fans of the scents

Because nearly every product is perfumed, the named fragrance components after PARFUM – LINALOOL, LIMONENE and the like – are the part of the list to read if you avoid particular ones. In the bar soaps, the saponified oils at the start of the list (such as SODIUM OLIVATE or SODIUM COCOATE) show which oils the soap is based on.