Yves Rocher

About Yves Rocher

Yves Rocher is a French beauty company founded in 1965 by Yves Rocher in La Gacilly, Brittany, where its botanical garden and factory are located. It belongs to Groupe Rocher and builds its skincare, cosmetics and fragrances on plant-derived ingredients. Mail order was an early key channel; today the brand operates over 3,000 stores in 88 countries.

Typical Yves Rocher formulas

INCIMondo holds 36 Yves Rocher products, mostly shower gels, then body care, hair care and face care. The recurring ingredients after water are PARFUM, GLYCERIN, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE and TETRASODIUM EDTA, a chelating agent that binds metal ions and helps keep a formula stable.

Fragrance ingredients feature in 34 of the 36 formulas (94%). Silicones are found in 8 (22%) and parabens in 5 (14%), while none of the formulas lists denatured alcohol (ALCOHOL DENAT.).

Finding the plants on the label

Yves Rocher builds its products on plant-derived ingredients, which appear in the INCI list under their botanical Latin names rather than everyday names. Ingredients present below 1% may be listed in any order, so a plant extract's position near the end says little about how it compares with its neighbours.