- IP Proterra: Proterra International Procurement Program
- IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature
- LGPD: Brazilian general law on the protection of personal data
- LIM: L'Oréal Incident Management
- LIFE: Life-changing Incidents or Fatality Events
- MECL: Mutual Ethical Commitment Letter
- MESUR: French synonym for manage efficiently using recognition and realignment.
- MSA.ha: Mean Species Abundance per hectare
- NACE: Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community
- OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- ILO: International Labour Organization
- NGO: Non-Governmental Organisation
- OP2B: One Planet Business for Biodiversity
- OpEx: Operating expenditure
- OPTICIP: OPTImisation Cleaning In Place (method for cleaning industrial equipment)
- PEFC: Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes
- PESTEL: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal (analysis of macro-environmental factors)
- SMP: Solvent Management Plan
- PIPL: Personal Information Protection Law (China)
- POS advertising: Point-of-sale advertising
- POS1: Point-of-sale advertising of other liquid-based products (e.g., samples, testers or trial sizes)
- POS2: Point-of-sale advertising of other liquid-free products (e.g., displays or posters)
- PSF: Platform for Sustainable Finance
- PSM: Process Safety Management
- R&I: Research and Innovation
- RCP: Representative Concentration Pathways (scenarios for changes in greenhouse gas concentrations)
- EPR: Extended Producer Responsibility
- GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
- HR: Human Relations
- RSPO: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
- RTRS: Round Table on Responsible Soy association
- SA 8000: Social Accountability 8000 (international standard for social responsibility)
- SAC: Safety Awareness Communication
- SBTi: Science Based Targets initiative (for reducing emissions)
- SCAN index: Sustainability Consortium Assessment index
- SFDR: Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
- SHAP: Site Hazard Analysis Process
- SIO: Safety Improvement Opportunity
- SOC: Substances Of Concern
- SPOT: Sustainable Product Optimisation Tool
- STAR: Species Threat Abatement and Recovery (biodiversity metric)
- SVHC: Substances of Very High Concern
- TCFD: Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
- LTIR: Lost Time Injury Rate (for accidents)
- eTIR: Enlarged Total Incident Rate (number of accidents with and without lost time for L'Oréal employees and temporary workers, per million hours worked)
- TNFD: Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- UNGP: United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights
- VIE: French international business internship
- WFA: World Federation of Advertisers
- WPS: Worldwide Profit Sharing
