The team

We are now 9 people working together with Michèle Cros, the creator, to manufacture and distribute our beautiful range of cosmetics !Who are we ?Let us introduce ourselves.

Michele

Brand founder

One day, I decided to give up my job to start studying medicinal plants I've been attracted to since my childhood.

I became passionate about the search for knowledge of plants, based on current methods of study and documents that go back to the sources of the oldest traditions.

Thanks to all these experiences and encounters, I have definitively "plunged" my hands and my heart into the raw and pure plant material. Discreetly but tenderly welcomed by the green and gentle soil of Anjou, I put all my creativity at the service of living, raw products, bursting with active plant ingredients. Their efficiency in the skin's beauty is a treasure to be appreciated every day. This is how the Douces Angevines were born, almost 30 years ago!

Michele Cros the creator of Douces Angevines

Chloé

Manufacturing manager and regulatory assistant

Along with Michèle, I take care of the production, prepare the macerations and manage the stocks of raw materials. I am also in charge of the certification and audits.

What is your favorite product?

Je suis tombée amoureuse de la Lotion d'Alaric.

Francis

Co manager

I am Michèle's husband. I joined the workshop in 2016 to help my wife with the administrative and financial aspects of the business. However, since versatility is a must in small businesses, I am very happy to be involved in communication matters. Also, "working" in a family project, with a deep meaning, on a human scale, is a privilege.

What is your favorite product?

L'huile à BarbeHuile à Barbebecause it has become more of a ritual than a beard oil, because I feel that after the shower, my whole face needs it. And because its butterfly ginger scent is really invigorating and energizing.

Frederic

In charge of management and supplies (containers, tags, and other materials...)

Having made my entire career in a multinational company, the choice of Les Douces Angevines was a radical change of environment for me. I found the versatility I was looking for in the work world, and above all a much more harmonious family life.

I thus found a good professional and family balance, and a very friendly team, even if the male gender is not in the majority ;-))

What is your favorite product?

Bois d’Amyris : allows me to energize my legs before a run and Acrobate for the next day, for its muscle recovery power as it increases circulation.

Ellya

Communications and web marketing manager

Je suis Ellya, Chargée de Communication et Web Marketing.

Mon rôle ? Vous faire découvrir le doux univers des Douces Angevines. De la création de packagings à la gestion de nos réseaux sociaux, en passant par notre site web, je suis là pour vous partager des conseils, des astuces, et toutes les bonnes raisons d’adopter Douces Angevines pour vous ou les instituts et magasins revendeurs !
Ma mission ? Donner vie à notre univers, avec des graphismes qui reflètent l’essence de nos produits et faire en sorte que chaque images et chaque messages vous parle et vous touche.

What is your favorite product?

Anja I loved the texture and scent of this fluid that envelops my skin with softness while leaving it plump and with a wonderfully luminous complexion.

Elly chargée de communication Douces Angevines

Natalie

Commercial Director

Bientôt 20 ans que je suis entrée dans l’univers Douces Angevines… des milliers de kilomètres parcourus pour aller à la rencontre de nos revendeurs, 20 ans de belles rencontres et de témoignages chaleureux… Savoir choisir le point de vente le plus adapté à une belle mise en avant de notre gamme, transmettre les informations techniques. Et donner envie à mes clients de transmettre à leur tour les valeurs de nos produits ! Au quotidien la conscience de défendre une marque en accord parfait avec mes propres valeurs.

What is your favorite product?

Its very hard for me to choose my favorite product: Fantômette pour son efficacité incroyable. Aube d’été pour sa lumière, sa gaieté, et son air printanier. Magnifica pour le lâcher-prise qu’il procure. Je ne peux définitivement pas choisir !

Lucy

Assistant

I discovered the Douces Angevines brand through the press and at organic stores. Formerly a landscape gardener, I was in a period of professional conversion and I was looking for an opportunity to work in a human-scale structure that would allow me to keep a contact with plants, become closer to femininity, well-being and, if possible, to the organic world I was already attracted to. Les Douces Angevines met all these criteria.
It might have been a happy coincidence when I came to the company as they were planning to strengthen their team at that precise time. My background matched the profile they were looking for... After an internship period, I was lucky enough to get my very first full-time job.
Les Douces Angevines marked a turning point in my professional and personal life. They gave me the opportunity to put an end to a long period of precariousness rythmed by a succession of seasonal jobs and other fixed-term contracts. They improved the quality of my life and allowed me to finally start planning a more peaceful future.
Douces Angevines in a few words are for me: Renewal, Atypical, Diversity.

What is your favorite product?

Fantômette, car c’est le nettoyant démaquillant le plus doux que j’ai connu. Fini les sensations de brûlures sur les paupières et autres désagréments. Mon compagnon fidèle et apaisant au quotidien dont je ne pourrais plus me passer !

Sophia

Beautician trainer

I met Douces Angevines 20 years ago!
I was living in Morbihan, where I heard about the brand for the first time. The name, the method of manufacture issued from ancestral knowledge and the garden of Beauty made me immediately want to discover these famous fluids. I bought Aube d'Eté, le Baume de Diane and I literally fell for it!
Life took care of the rest of the story. My husband was transferred to Angers a few months later, and then I asked Michèle Cros if she would be willing to receive me. I just wanted to visit the studio and meet her in person.

Douces Angevines in a few words for me would be: authenticity, purity, pleasure of the senses.

What is your favorite product?

My addictions: Baume de Diane for its gentleness and sweetness
Gazelle for its tone, its momentum, Olea Antica for its divine scent, its finesse.

Francoise

Commerciale indépendante (dept 54, 67 et 68)

Beautician in my own institute and independent commercial agent for departments 54, 67 and 68.

I first met Douces Angevines while looking for the most organic and pure brand possible for my beauty space, then I had the opportunity to work for the brand.
I love introducing professionals to the scents, textures and unique characteristics of the brand, and to beauticians in particular. They feel a little bit like magicians to be able to prepare masks, to make their potions to adapt their care to their clients. With Douces Angevines, they find their creativity to bring a personalized beauty. Thanks to Douces Angevines, I am delighted to see them evolve in their job.
I like working with Douces Angevines for the authenticity, the values, the independence, the quality of the products and the love of plants.

What is your favorite product?

My favorite product is Après le Soleil. Its velvety texture disarms me. Its smell carries me away and its repairing virtues are exceptional. I don't use it every day but it has become a summer and winter habit whenever my skin is in pain or needs more care than usual.

Contact Françoise : contact@effledy.fr