L'Oréal

Report Publication Announcement • Sep 1, 2009

Clichy, September 1st 2009

2009 Half-year Report

The 2009 Half-year report was posted on the www.loreal-finance.com website (heading: Regulated Information / 2009 Half-year report) on Tuesday, September 1st 2009. Registered with the "Autorité des Marchés Financiers", this financial report is available for consultation by the public free of charge in accordance with the regulatory requirements in force.

"This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy L'Oréal shares. If you wish to obtain more comprehensive information about L'Oréal, please refer to the public documents registered in France with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, also available in English on our Internet site www.loreal-finance.com.

This news release may contain some forward-looking statements. Although the Company considers that these statements are based on reasonable hypotheses at the date of publication of this release, they are by their nature subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated or projected in these statements."

Contacts at L'ORÉAL (Switchboard: +33.1.47.56.70.00)

Individual shareholders Financial analysts and and market authorities Institutional investors Journalists Mr Jean-Régis CAROF Mrs Caroline MILLOT Mr Mike RUMSBY Tel: +33.1.47.56.83.02 Tel: +33.1.47.56.86.82 Tel: +33.1.47.56.76.71

jcarof@dgaf.loreal.com cmillot@dgaf.loreal.com mrumsby@dgc.loreal.com

For more information, please contact your bank, broker or financial institution (I.S.I.N. code: FR0000120321), and consult your usual newspapers, and the Internet site for shareholders and investors, http://www.loreal-finance.com, or its mobile version on your cell phone, http://mobile.lorealfinance.com; alternatively, call +33.1.40.14.80.50.