Circular Economy

‘Not one and done’: Beauty packaging ‘will continue to be a problem to solve’ – Jurlique

21-Mar-2023 By Amanda Lim

Jurlique says beauty still has multiple challenges to overcome in its shift towards sustainable packaging, highlighting the need for better innovation and broader recycling infrastructure.

‘Comprehensive understanding’ on biomass highlights promise for protective beauty: Review

03-Mar-2023 By Kacey Culliney

Scientific knowledge on the bioactivity of organic biomass extracts and agri-food waste has fast advanced in recent years, highlighting potential for the development of topicals targeting skin photoageing, say researchers.

‘A big learning process’: Suu Balm mulls over future sustainability plans as it rolls out new green initiatives

07-Feb-2023 By Amanda Lim

Sensitive skin brand Suu Balm says the outcomes of its new green initiatives will inform its future plans as it continues on its journey of becoming a company with a cleaner and greener impact.

Big Brand Talks – In Conversation with Today’s Beauty Leaders

Weleda R&D chief: ‘We’re trying to switch our way of innovating’

05-Dec-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Swiss natural and organic beauty brand Weleda has formed a small-scale internal startup to speed up product development and market testing, presenting a very new way of working, its R&D head says.

Fantastical fungi: Food start-up pushing mushroom mycelium as natural and sustainable ingredient for cosmetics

05-Oct-2022 By Amanda Lim

A Singapore-based food start-up cultivating mushroom mycelium as an alternative protein source believes it can also serve the cosmetics industry as a natural, sustainable, and completely food-safe ingredient.

‘Go above and beyond’: Why recycling is beauty’s biggest misinformation problem – Emma Lewisham CEO

13-Sep-2022 By Amanda Lim

The overreliance on recycling is the chief piece of green misinformation in the beauty industry, which has to move faster towards a circular model, says the founder and CEO of Emma Lewisham.

Just one droplet: Allozymes claims proprietary tech increases actives yields, boosts sustainability

08-Sep-2022 By Amanda Lim

Biotechnology start-up Allozymes’s claims its proprietary tech gives the cosmetic industry a way to produce natural active ingredients in an environmentally responsible manner, while also reducing cost, time and resources.

Seacliff Beauty bringing next level of recycled plastic packaging to beauty

06-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

While some packaging suppliers rely on offsets to claim to remove ocean plastic, Seacliff Beauty is doing it quite literally.

‘Recycling has to end’: Beauty industry needs to focus on reuse and refill to tackle packaging predicament

12-May-2022 By Amanda Lim

The beauty industry has been too focused on recycling and needs to shift focus on reuse and refill solutions, says two circular beauty brands, Bhuman and Emma Lewisham.

Circular Beauty: How can industry make circularity a mainstream reality? FREE webinar

21-Apr-2022 By Amanda Lim

A raft of industry players are joining the circular beauty movement, but how can the sector encourage consumers to adopt circularity en masse?

Special Edition: CIRCULAR BEAUTY – SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATION AND FUTURE PROMISE

Kao: ‘Maximising and minimising’ key to zero-waste circular beauty future

07-Apr-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Japanese personal care major Kao Corporation believes achieving a circular society will require a delicate balance of minimising beauty materials and maximising use, with thin-film packaging offering plenty of promise.

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L’Oréal exec: The future of beauty packaging is ‘eco-desirability’

03-Mar-2022 By Kacey Culliney

The future of beauty packaging will centre on blending sustainability with desirability and rely on innovative industry partnerships and advances in material science, lifecycle analysis and smart product design, says L’Oréal’s global director of sustainable...

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TerraCycle CEO: Circular beauty is about ‘honouring the molecules’ of a product and giving them a long life

20-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Giving the longest life possible to molecules that make up a product is what circularity is all about, and the reuse movement in beauty is a particularly exciting and innovative path forward, says the CEO and founder of US recycling major TerraCycle.

The no waste era? Every beauty brand can ‘reformulate, reposition and renew’

23-Mar-2021 By Natasha Spencer

As the beauty and personal care world explores how it can achieve circular beauty, consumers want to see zero waste and supply chain transparency made a reality in the burgeoning category they define as ‘clean’, say beauty experts.

Beiersdorf to publish ‘industry standard’ on cosmetic grade recycled plastics by end of 2020

13-Nov-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care major Beiersdorf is primed to publish its industry standard defining cosmetic grade recycled plastic suitability by the end of this year; a standard it co-developed with two specialist German companies.

The long-read: In-depth on L’Oréal’s ‘For the Future’ 2030 Sustainability Plan

‘Entering a new era’: L’Oréal outlines 2030 sustainability goals on plastics, carbon emissions and more

29-Jun-2020 By Kacey Culliney

L’Oréal has outlined a range of sustainability measures in its ‘for the future’ program, including 2030 targets for all plastic packaging to be recycled or bio-based, all sites and centres to be carbon neutral and 95% of ingredients to be bio-based, derived...

Special Edition: Sustainable Sourcing and Waste Reduction

Cradle to Cradle exec: Collaboration and innovation ‘at the heart’ of a circular economy

23-Jun-2020 By Kacey Culliney

The beauty and personal care industry must innovate and collaborate to drive forward circular business models, especially in the pre-competitive space, says an executive at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

Natura &Co promises equal pay, gender parity, and 50% women in leadership by 2023

17-Jun-2020 By Deanna Utroske

On Monday, the Brazil-based beauty company announced a plan “which will step up its actions to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues” over the next 10 years. The beauty maker’s Commitment to Life takes on climate change, champions human rights,...

Albéa completes divestments to Silgan and refocuses on ‘legacy’ divisions

02-Jun-2020 By Kacey Culliney

French packaging major Albéa has completed the divestment of its dispensing systems, metal and Brazil businesses to US packaging firm Silgan, now refocusing on tubes, rigid cosmetic packaging and beauty solutions, its CEO says.

Closing the carbon cycle: Beiersdorf and Evonik kickstart €1m CO2 raw material research

14-May-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care giant Beiersdorf and speciality chemicals supplier Evonik have teamed up on a federally funded research project in Germany looking to use carbon dioxide as a source for producing sustainable raw materials for beauty products.

‘Potential to be transformative’: EC adopts 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan

12-Mar-2020 By Kacey Culliney

The European Commission has adopted its latest Circular Economy Action Plan for Europe; a necessary move but one that will prove challenging for the beauty industry, says Cosmetics Europe.

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Overcoming hurdles: Cosmetics has a ‘massive opportunity’ to utilise waste ingredients

02-Oct-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Food and agricultural side streams are extremely rich in components suitable for cosmetic applications, but a lack of extraction expertise, handling know-how and finance is holding back industry advances, say experts.