Stories About Cosmetics/Personal Care Products
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The Continued Evolution of Plant-Based Products — and the Ones We’re Not Hearing About
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - We must look at all categories where we can offer plant-based and sustainably sourced choices for intentional consumers. There has never been a time where we need to be more collectively conscious of the products we consume, and acknowledge their impacts on our long-term health.
#ItsInOurHands: How Cleansing Wipes Can Be Both Convenient and Sustainable
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Fact: Most personal-care wipes contain plastic and therefore can become a burden on the environment. Lenzing‘s biodegradable VEOCEL™ fibers offer an alternative solution. We talked to Jürgen Eizinger, VP of Global Business Management, Nonwovens at Lenzing, about the future of wet wipes.
Give More, and Better, This Season: The 2019 SB Holiday Gift Guide
WASTE NOT - What better way to celebrate and participate in the season of giving than with gifts that truly keep on giving? Here are just a few of our favorite discoveries this year of products we'd be thrilled to give and receive.
A Cleaner, ‘Greener’ World: Hilton Expands Soap Recycling for Global Handwashing Day
WASTE NOT - Hilton properties have collectively recycled four million pounds of soap, resulting in 11 million soap bars being distributed to communities in need in 127 countries. Starting today, soap recycling is now a brand standard across over 5,300 Hilton properties.
Absolut, Coca-Cola, L’Oreal Join Carlsberg’s Efforts to Improve, Scale Paper Bottles
COLLABORATION - Carlsberg Group has unveiled the latest iterations of the world’s first paper beer bottle made from sustainably sourced wood fibers, along with a new ‘paper bottle community’ of brands dedicated to optimizing the technology.
Trending: Waste-Free Personal Care Products Set to Revolutionize Industry
WASTE NOT - Blueland debuts another plastic-free offering, Lush develops carbon-positive packaging, and Maiiro calls out the beauty industry’s ‘Pack of Lies’ in a new plastic-awareness campaign.
Navigating a World of Labels Through Third-Party Certification
MARKETING AND COMMS - Consumers want to trust that the products they are buying are accurately labeled, but in a marketplace saturated with brands all making different claims, this is easier said than done.
VEOCEL™ Launches New Certification Criteria to Elevate Sustainability and Biodegradability in Personal Care and Beauty Products
PRESS RELEASE - With the new certification scheme for its VEOCEL™ branded fibers, Lenzing establishes its fiber brand as a label of trust for eco-conscious consumers.
SB’19 Detroit: L’Oréal, TerraCycle Illustrate How Products Should Be Made, Packaged
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - The innovators behind Seed Phytonutrients and the Loop reusable packaging platform shared lessons learned, and the potential impacts these disruptive new approaches could hold for their respective industries.
Sports World, CPG Brands Continue Charge Toward Sustainable Plastics Use
WASTE NOT - Announcements this week take skincare into refillable pods, set new standards designed to protect environment amid climate crisis, and increase recycled content in packaging.
Collaboration Accelerates Green Chemistry Innovation Throughout an Industry
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - In its pilot run, the Green Chemistry & Commerce Council's Collaborative Innovation Challenge helped the likes of Beiersdorf, P&G, SC Johnson and Unilever address a pressing product formulation issue.
The Body Shop’s Fairly Traded Recycled Plastic Highlights Human Side of Plastic Crisis
THE NEXT ECONOMY - The Body Shop is launching its first Community Trade Recycled Plastic from Bengaluru, India. Along with fighting plastic pollution, the initiative aims to drive social change and help empower people.
Plastic Straws Are on the Path to Extinction; You’ll Never Guess What’s Next
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - The global feminine hygiene market accounted for $31.23 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $62.84 billion by 2026. To stay relevant in this booming sector, investment in developing products responsive to these changing consumer demands is not only smart, it’s imperative.
Good Scents: An Inside Look at Cradle to Cradle’s New Certified Fragrances
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - What do actress Michelle Pfeiffer; William McDonough, creator of the Cradle to Cradle® design framework and a pioneer of the circular economy movement; and perfume have in common? Likely nothing, until recently — when two newly launched products brought the certification into new territory.
Saskia Van Gendt: Her ‘Method’ for Optimism & Innovation
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - How does Saskia Van Gendt, Method’s Senior Director of Greenskeeping, stay so positive facing the globally unsustainable manufacturing processes still in play today?
Pond: Using Algae to Turn CO2 to Our Many Advantages
CLEANTECH - Pond Technologies is a Canadian cleantech company using nature’s filters to combat climate change, while also providing a model to help existing industries join the shift towards a low-carbon economy via value-added, recycled-carbon products.
Trending: Players Large and Small Leveling Up Sustainable Personal Care
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - While momentum builds around improving our food system — what we put in our bodies — chemical giants and savvy startups alike are hard at work creating next-generation products that take just as much care of the environment as they do for our bodies.
CDP: Top FMCGs in Race to Keep Up with 'Fast-Moving Consumers'
LEADERSHIP - FMCGs need to accelerate innovation to keep up with changing consumer preferences for plant-based products and less packaging.
Q&A: How to Know When Products Are Truly MADE SAFE®
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - The MADE SAFE® certification is on the verge of certifying its 1,000th product. Three years ago, this program didn’t even exist.
World's Largest Palm Oil Trader Gives Forest Destroyers Nowhere to Hide
SUPPLY CHAIN - After an intensive global campaign by Greenpeace, Wilmar International has published a detailed action plan to map and monitor its palm oil suppliers. This week, the world’s largest palm oil trader, Wilmar International, published a detailed action plan to map and monitor all of its suppliers. If implemented, this would put the palm oil giant — which supplies 40 percent of the world’s palm oil — one step closer to finally eliminating deforestation from its supply chain, and would have major implications for the rest of the industry.