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Loire. He collects coffee grounds from bars to make beauty products.

Loire. He collects coffee grounds from bars to make beauty products.

Instead of throwing coffee grounds in the trash, Tom Drevet, the son of a restaurateur, imagined giving them a second life by incorporating them into a scrub. The treatment is made in a laboratory in Brittany and sold on his website and in two coffee shops, which supply him with brown gold.

  • Tom Drevet has been working on his coffee grounds-based beauty product project for a year. Photo by Charly Jurine
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  • Through the company My Essenza, the young man offers skin exfoliation solutions. Photo Charly Jurine
  • The marc is mixed with sea salt, sunflower oil and glycerin, among other ingredients. Photo Charly Jurine

"I always wanted to be an entrepreneur." But before embarking on the My Essenza adventure, 24-year-old Tom Drevet took his first steps in the restaurant business, alongside his father, who had an establishment in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert.

It was by throwing away large quantities of coffee grounds every day that this former student of administrative and commercial management became aware of this waste and thought about how to...

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