Sustainability

Sustainable beauty packaging ‘a bit piecemeal’ despite urgent need for change

16-Aug-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Beauty has made sustainable packaging advances but nothing widespread enough to align with consumer expectations and the urgent need to save the planet, says a beauty industry commentator.

Spar Austria launches bioplastic toothbrush

12-Aug-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Retail major Spar has launched an organic bioplastic toothbrush in Austria under its private label Beauty Kiss.

How to scale up sustainably: ‘The time for secrecy is over’, says Beauty Kitchen

07-Aug-2019 By Kacey Culliney

The beauty industry must push sustainability forward in a collaborative, transparent and open-source way to make any real, scalable change, says the co-founder of UK Indie Brand Beauty Kitchen.

Albéa publishes a first sustainability report

24-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month the beauty packager published an 18-page report outlining the company's past, current, and future approach to environmental sustainability and, as part of the document, laid out 5 ways that Albéa is working toward a circular approach to...

Unilever advances zero-deforestation initiative

10-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, Unilever published lists of its paper and board product suppliers as well as of its soy suppliers. The beauty maker believes that this sort of transparency will compel partner companies along the supply chain to be accountable for practices...

Sustainable Beauty Awards: finalists announced

19-Oct-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

Ecovia Intelligence has announced this year’s Sustainable Beauty Awards finalists, with Aveda, L’Oréal, Weleda, Ashland and Clariant some industry names among those shortlisted.

Bulldog launches new skin care for men products: vegan beauty ‘big news’

22-Feb-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

Bulldog Skincare For Men as announced the expansion of its range to include further products that boast both cruelty-free and sustainable claims.

What efforts for sustainability is Henkel making?

05-Jan-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

With Henkel, a leading German personal care and household goods producer, having been awarded the highest score from Sustainalytics, a Dutch rating agency, we take a look at what it’s doing in the field of sustainability.

DSM appoints new head of sustainability for personal care

04-Jan-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

The personal care, home care and fine fragrance supplier has announced the appointment of Gaelle Bathany as director Sustainability for its personal care unit.

Unilever 2017 profile: changes, challenges and strengths

15-Dec-2017 By Lucy Whitehouse

We take a look at the year in review for Unilever, global parent-company to many household personal goods brands. What did the fast moving consumer goods giant get up to, and why?

L’Oréal and Unilever ‘world leaders’ for environmental efforts

29-Nov-2017 By Lucy Whitehouse

CDP, a sustainability indexing company, has awarded L’Oréal and Unilever triple A ratings for sustainability, making them the only two companies to achieve this globally.

Henkel teams up with social enterprise to stop ocean plastic

24-Nov-2017 By Lucy Whitehouse

The German chemical and consumer goods company has teamed up with the Plastic Bank, a social enterprise which aims to stop ocean plastic and provide opportunities for people in poverty.

Sustainability ‘hotspots’ for cosmetics formulation and how to respond

09-Nov-2017 By Lucy Whitehouse

How can brands determine and respond to the key issues regarding sustainability of their products and ingredients?

Ecovia announces finalists for annual Sustainability Awards

30-Oct-2017 By Simon Pitman

Ecovia Intelligence, which rebranded from its Organic Monitor name earlier this year, has announced the finalists for its annual Sustainability Awards.

Luxe Pack in Green winners: who’s leading the pack with sustainability?

27-Oct-2017 By Lucy Whitehouse

Finish company Sulapac and French Groupe Pochet won this year’s Luxe Pack in green Awards, presented by Prince Albert II of Monaco.