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).
The multinational CPG company announced yesterday that it has signed a deal to purchase the plant-based personal care and household cleaners company known as Seventh Generation—thereby shoring up its position in the naturals market.
Personal care ingredients manufacturer Symrise has scooped two prizes at the DQS sustainability awards in Germany, recognising the company's continued focus on this area.
BASF, global specialty chemicals firm, has laid out a series of measures by which it hopes to raise the sustainability profile of its personal care ingredients offering, with a particular focus on palm oil.
For the first time ever, the MakeUp Paris event will have a green focus, aimed at showcasing innovations for products that are sustainable and kinder to the planet while still maintaining that competitive edge.
L’Oréal might be the largest cosmetics company in the world, but one of its biggest goals is to minimize its manufacturing footprint and the impact it has on the environment.
Inolex, a Pennsylvania-based personal care ingredient company, is launching a new collection of ingredients at this week’s show in Paris, France, and seeing a terrific industry response to its alternatives to palm oil.
The Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) announces its 8th annual conference on Biodiversity on 26 May 2016 in Paris, with a focus on creating and sharing value through ethical sourcing, this year.
Unilever joins a host of industry partners in the creation of an open platform called Paragon to help tackle global climate challenges by combining market research forces in addressing key global development and sustainability challenges.
The Anglo-Dutch giant has signed a definitive multi-year global supply agreement with Solazyme, now known as TerraVia, for the supply of sustainable algae oils to be used in personal care applications.
Swiss firm Givaudan celebrates ten years of ethical sourcing and says that taking a long term approach has been key to securing a natural supply chain and supporting local communities, ultimately leading to responsible growth.
Ingredient suppliers Clariant and Beraca announce that the strategic partnership deal which sees the former acquire 30% of shares in the Brazilian firm’s Health & Personal Care Division, has been completed.
L’Oreal and Evolva have reached the second milestone in their research and development collaboration to develop next-generation, sustainably produced ingredients for cosmetics.
Welcome to our Sustainability Special Newsletter, which brings a collection of articles touching on subjects as diverse range of topics that help form this increasingly vital pillar of the cosmetics business.
Unilever has announced that it has become a zero waste to landfill company in Europe as, in addition to its manufacturing facilities, no waste from its owned or fully operated premises, logistic operations, distribution centres or offices goes to landfill.
French cosmetics maker L’Oreal has launched a sustainable quinoa husk sourcing programme in Bolivia with the aim of using the produce as a renewable ingredient in cosmetics applications.
The Cosmetics Compact is your compact source of the latest new headlines from the last few weeks, taking a glance at what has been happening in the cosmetics industry.
The best way for the cosmetics industry to improve sustainability is to share their practices and metrics and ensure they are considering the most relevant data, according to French firm Groupe Rocher.
Solvay has teamed up with L'Oréal to teach sustainable agricultural practices to guar bean farmers in India - derivatives of which are used in various hair and skin conditioning products.
The biggest sustainability issue the cosmetics industry is facing at present is ‘efficiency’, says Amarjit Sahota, as cosmetic companies look to raise products sales whilst reducing their environmental impacts.
There is no getting away from sustainability issues in this industry an both manufacturers and suppliers come under increased pressure to reduce their environmental impacts. With this in mind, this year’s European edition of The Sustainable Cosmetics...
Unilever has published its first ever Human Rights report as it aims to document areas where the company has taken significant steps forward and assess some of the challenges ahead, as part of its sustainable development goals.
Beiersdorf has published its 2014 review of its ‘We Care’ sustainability strategy, announcing that it has already exceeded its 2020 ‘Planet’ targets and will continue to strive forward, aiming to achieve its ‘People’ and ‘Products’ targets next.
Botanical oils have become quite popular as signature ingredients and as stand-alone products, accordingly, one prominent company in the space is growing fast.
The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.
Saving the planet can also save companies a lot of money too demonstrated by Unilever’s win-win example of saving 1 million tonnes of CO2 whilst also making cost savings of €244 million at the same time.
AAK, the Swedish vegetable oil company, supplies products to the cosmetics industry and beyond. Henrik Vingaard, AAK’s director of sourcing and trading for Europe and West Africa spoke with Cosmetics Design about supply chain sustainability.
The Dove skin care maker claims that by integrating sustainability into its business it is driving growth, cost efficiency and resilience for the future: proof that the company’s Sustainable Living Plan is on course.
Anglo-Dutch consumer company Unilever is partnering with Global Citizen and Live Earth: Road to Paris, as part of its brightFuture campaign as it looks to grow its business while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social...
Unilever has announced that it has reached its target of sending non-hazardous waste to landfill from its factories, and in the process avoided €200 million-worth of costs and created hundreds of jobs.
Alexandra Palt, chief sustainability officer for the L’Oréal Group, speaks with Cosmetics Design to give the company’s progressive take on all things concerning this increasingly crucial aspect of every good business model. In this exclusive interview...
The company announced this week its intentions to further limit water use and packaging as well as to take advantage of more renewable materials by 2020.
Naturex Personal Care is the newest member of the Union for Ethical BioTrade stating that ethical sourcing has become very important in the cosmetics industry, and setting down a marker for its views on biodiversity.
Givaudan, a key player in the fragrance and flavour sector, has announced the creation of the Givaudan Foundation, which it notes is aimed at reinforcing its commitment to charitable causes, and its involvement in the communities in which it operates.
Consumer goods multinational L’Oreal has announced a partnership with water treatment service provider, Veolia, which will tackle the problem of wastewater discharged from the beauty giant’s factories in Indonesia.
Consumers are becoming more aware about sustainability issues and expect companies to respect biodiversity, according to the 2014 Biodiversity Barometer.
Unilever, global consumer goods giant, has issued a ‘green bond’ for £250m (€300m), with which it will finance projects to further the company’s sustainability.
Ingredient suppliers must implement the carbon footprint into their ingredient design and ensure the correct supply chain choices if we are to work towards a sustainable future.
The Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) has announced it will launch this year’s Biodiversity Barometer in April, promising insights on the growing consumer demand for beauty brands to show evidence of biodiversity responsibility.
Global consumer goods manufacturer Unilever has partnered up with the University of Cambridge to further the university’s Sustainability Leadership programme (CPSL) with the recent launch of its first seminar in Asia.
In a move which confirms its intent to improve sustainability, Unilever’s supplier Symrise has announced a partnership which aims to improve the livelihoods of its vanilla producers with German development corporation, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale...
Five cosmetics manufacturers and ingredients suppliers make the global 100 most sustainable corporations list for 2013, including suppliers Croda and BASF, together with L’Oreal, Johnson & Johnson and Unilever on the manufacturing side.
L’Oréal has reiterated its commitment to sustainability by announcing that it has put a ‘zero deforestation’ rule in place when sourcing raw materials.
EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik has highlighted the crucial role bioplastics play in Europe‘s transition towards a circular bio based economy at the 8th European Bioplastics Conference last week.
