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Anti-Counterfeit Solutions for Cosmetics & Perfume brands

Counterfeiting harms beauty brands’ revenue and reputation. Cosmetics make direct skin contact, so authenticity is critical for safety and quality, not just IP protection. Cypheme offers an anti-counterfeit solution for premium cosmetics designed to combat this global issue.
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Counterfeiting in Cosmetics & Perfumes

Counterfeiting of cosmetics and perfumes is a rampant problem that has affected manufacturers and consumers alike.

This phenomenon has surged in recent years, and counterfeiting in the wake of COVID-19, along with the booming demand for exports in the beauty industry, has inspired fraudulent activity in several forms.

From printing fake prestigious labels on cheaper, faulty products and manufacturing elaborate counterfeit packaging, to grey markets promoting counterfeiting, the impact is undeniable.

These malpractices can have adverse consequences for the image of your brand as well as the health of unsuspecting consumers. In addition, the circulation of duplicate products might result in a significant loss of revenue for players in the beauty sector.

During times like these, Cypheme’s anti-counterfeit technology is the best defense against the criminal distribution of imitation products that are costing brands their reputations and customers their faith.

Why Cosmetics Brands Should Employ
Anti-Counterfeiting Solutions

Minimize Unfair Competition

Premium cosmetics and perfumes require expert formulation and precise manufacturing methods. Brands often spend large sums on marketing these products and making them globally accessible. But when counterfeit cosmetics draw your brand’s target demographic away, it can dent sales and blur projections.

Protect Interests of Consumers

Cosmetics brands jump through hoops to make sure the ingredients in their products are safe for their consumers. The same products, when counterfeited, are often made with substandard formulas and poor-quality ingredients, which may include harmful chemicals. By adopting anti-counterfeiting solutions for cosmetics, premium brands can play an active role in protecting the interests of their consumers and save them from using harmful substances.

Secure or Repair Brand Image

Earning customer loyalty and establishing a reputation for your brand takes years, if not decades, of research, hard work, and networking. But it can all go away in the blink of an eye when counterfeiters begin circulating poor-quality cosmetics or perfumes under your brand’s logo and name. They may use highly skilled imitations of your packaging and formulas. While a trained eye may be able to spot these tell-tale details, many customers don’t know how to detect counterfeit cosmetics. That’s why technology can be a useful tool to empower your customers. Protecting your cosmetics brand is easy with Cypheme’s anti-counterfeiting solutions.

Recover Lost Revenues

Revenue lost to counterfeiters deprives cosmetics brands of earnings they are entitled to after years spent developing products and formulas loved by consumers. That’s why it’s so important to provide consumers with the right tools for identifying counterfeit products straight off the shelf. Cypheme’s Noise Print label does just that, and performs better than other available technologies.

Avoid Legal Backlash

Brands targeted by counterfeiters can avoid legal backlash from resellers and consumers by using anti-counterfeiting solutions to secure their cosmetics, anywhere in the world.

With Our Solution

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Minimize revenue loss
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Protect consumers from harmful substances

Open up an array of new possibilities

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Inform product characteristics
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Share personalized marketing content
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Track both genuine and counterfeit products
Our different solutions allow us to create the scenarios best adapted to your needs.

Integrating Cypheme

We will work with you in order to select the most appropriate anti-counterfeit solution which suits your needs. There are several choices for the location of the anti-counterfeit tag on cosmetics and perfumes.

On the Product

On the Label

On the Packaging

On the Closing Seal

Authentification

Allow Your Customers To Buy Products Safely

Cypheme allows anyone to verify the authenticity of your product, in seconds, by simply taking a picture of the tag with their smartphone. The process does not alter the product in any way, meaning it can be done freely, in the store, before purchase.

Make Your Products Go Through Customs Easily

Cypheme makes it possible to verify the authenticity of your product, in seconds, by simply taking a picture of the tag with a smartphone. If a cargo container of your products is stopped at customs for verification, it can be checked simply and quickly.

Make Your Inspectors’ Job Easier

Cypheme can easily become a new tool for your inspectors. Thanks to its speed, simplicity and reliability, this unique solution will only enhance their efficiency. For additional security, the Cypheme system can also be deployed via secure devices and thus also used by third parties.

Geolocation

Track Your Products To Understand Your Demand

Cypheme allows products to be located in real time when they are scanned. You will know where your customers are and where your products are sold all over the world.

Track Your Products To Identify Counterfeits

Cypheme allows genuine and fake products to be located in real time when they are scanned. You will know where counterfeit products are circulating around the world.

Track To Understand Your Supply Chain / Distribution Channel

Cypheme is compatible with any traceability and internet of objects system in order to offer you a reliable tracking of each individual product.

Marketing

Know Your Customers Better

Cypheme lets you know which individual user is scanning which one of your products. You will be able to differentiate between loyal, repeat or unique customers, as well as identify all of your resellers. In compliance with the GDPR, users of the Cypheme service can also agree to share some data about themselves, such as age or gender, allowing you to identify your audience. Finally, Cypheme makes it possible for your customers to sign up for a number of your services (e.g.: identifying themselves as an owner or taking part in a loyalty program). Such a feature will enable you to connect with your customers directly.

Drive Customer Loyalty

Cypheme allows you to deliver any sort of information directly to your customers. This may include product information, links to your website or social media accounts, ads for other products, and special offers. Cypheme lets you know which individual user is scanning which one of your products. You will be able to differentiate between loyal, repeat or unique customers, as well as identify all of your resellers and thus send them relevant special offers. Cypheme will allow you to engage with your customers directly through services, offers and special programs they can sign up for directly.

Increase Brand Awareness

Cypheme allows you to deliver any sort of information directly to your customers. Each product is unique and identified as such, meaning that you can push as much precise information about it as you wish. (e.g.: production date and location of THIS bottle or pot). You can also push more general information about the quality of the product that can be of interest to your customers (e.g.: expiration date, ingredients, tutorial etc.).
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Let AI secure your products from counterfeit

Counterfeit products claims the lives of millions people every year, that is more than the number of people who die yearly from malaria or from wars.

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