One of the best ways of measuring future industry trends and innovation is a trip to in-cosmetics Global, an event that shines a light on what the next generation of products will look like. But this year, pinpointing something truly new was hard to do.
The company Suvi Haimi and Laura Kyllönen founded in Finland in 2016 has been gaining accolades, winning awards, and making headlines while continuing to innovate for a plastic-free future. This year, Sulapac announced that its Universal Recipe material...
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.
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.
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...
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...
Each year, the formulation technology company hosts pop-up events in Paris, New York, and LA to showcase their unique microfluidic tech as well as a concept-of-the-year. Capsum’s innovation for 2019 is a self-contained facility where botanical ingredients...
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.
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.
The personal care, home care and fine fragrance supplier has announced the appointment of Gaelle Bathany as director Sustainability for its personal care unit.
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?
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.
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.
Ecovia Intelligence, which rebranded from its Organic Monitor name earlier this year, has announced the finalists for its annual Sustainability Awards.
L’Oreal has been successful in achieving a positive AAA rating from CDP, an international non-profit that drives companies and governments to improve sustainability through its disclosure platform.
From ‘next gen’ sustainability concerns to the key challenges facing the industry, we got the latest from head of market research firm Ecovia Intelligence.
The discount retailer has refreshed its policies around chemical ingredients in an effort to be a leader in the stainable chemistry movement as well as to provide transparent formulation information to consumers.
One of the leading benchmarking organisations measuring corporate sustainability globally has celebrated its 20th anniversary, and suggested it’s time to take sustainability efforts and reporting up a level.
Fair Hair Care, an organisation set up this year to promote transparency, quality and trust for consumer hair care extensions, has revealed its insight into how to create ethical hair extension brands.
Clariant, a global specialty chemicals company, has been listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for this year, making this its fifth consecutive year in the rankings.
Symrise has been certified as a ‘Green Company’ for a second time by DQS CFS, the German Association for Sustainability, in recognition of its commitment to sustainable processes.
The World Dow Jones Sustainability Index has been announced for 2017, and following a concerted effort to raise the company’s sustainability objectives over the past two years Solvay is again on the list.
The 2017 European edition of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is due to take place in London, June 12 -13, looking to focus on how the body can make change possible and deliver on three core commitments.
Biolage R.A.W. Nourish shampoo and conditioner from L'Oréal USA have attained high marks from the third-party certifying body for environmental and social responsibility.
Unilever has unveiled a new technology that the FMCG company says will reduce sachet waste, an issue due to the ‘hundreds of billions’ of plastic sachets thrown away globally every year.
This Saturday is Earth Day, a global celebration that brings attention to environmental protection needs and initiatives. To coincide with the event, L’Oréal has release its 2016 progress report on the company’s sustainability efforts—known collectively...
The global specialty chemicals company has announced the appointment of Piyada Charoensirisomboon as its new vice president for global development of personal care.
Procter and Gamble has announced that its Head & Shoulders brand is set to produce the ‘world’s first’ recyclable shampoo bottle, made from up to 25% recycled beach plastic.
Unilever has released a study that takes a look at consumer interest in the topic of sustainability, and out of the five countries surveyed, the UK came out as the least keen on sustainable products.
Ahead of the global trade show to be held in London later this year, we take a closer look at one of in-cosmetics’ central new feature: its ‘Sustainability Corner’.
The report highlights the beauty makers’ corporate responsibility goals and initiatives: “We believe that citizenship and sustainability are essential to our success as a business and our responsibilities as a global company.”
Our special newsletter focus on sustainable manufacturing in beauty and personal care comes at a pertinent time: sustainability is high on the industry agenda, and the signs of this are everywhere.
The finalists for the third Sustainable Beauty Awards have been announced and are all the running for the top category prizes to be announced in Paris on October 24th.
Multinational consumer goods player Unilever will be presenting a talk on its sustainability communications at an upcoming London conference on investor relations (IR).
