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Ecolabels Ensure Chemical Sustainability in Beauty, Household Products

63% of consumers want brands to help educate the public about product origins and business practices. Companies that avoid greenwashing — and demonstrate this honesty to the public — could distinguish themselves in the eyes of potential customers... View More

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Unilever Refreshing Fragrance Formulas with Upcycled Flowers

The consumer-goods giant is working with the University of Nottingham to develop sustainable fragrances from waste plants, in a bid to reduce emissions and reliance on petrochemical ingredients. ... View More

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Kiehl’s Urges Consumers: ‘Don’t Rebuy. Just Refill’

The skincare brand highlights the benefits of refillable vs single-use packaging formats in its latest campaign. ... View More

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Avoiding Greenwashing Accusations Requires Cross-Functional Collaboration

Misleading consumers on sustainability initiatives will not grow a business, and the legal and reputational ramifications only reinforce that the exaggeration of environmental claims will not deliver on ROI. Here are two tips from our sustainability ... View More

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Meet 2 Companies Upcycling Food Waste to Make Beauty More Sustainable

Biotech startups Kaffe Bueno and The Upcycled Beauty Company are transforming food-manufacturing waste streams into high-quality ingredients for personal-care products. ... View More

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Amazon Rainforest ‘Tops’ Forbes' Billionaires List

The campaign from Natura, Forbes and Africa Creative highlights the power of the Amazon’s $317B bioeconomy and that the standing forest is worth seven times more than the potential earnings from its destruction. ... View More

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More Beauty Retailers Embracing a Circular Economy for Packaging

New initiatives from Kiehl’s, Sephora, Shoppers Drug Mart and Ulta lay further groundwork for reducing the beauty industry’s massive plastic footprint. ... View More

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4 Keys to Accurately Accounting for Your Company’s Impacts on Nature

This week at SB’23 San Diego, Context Nature shared guiding principles with which business can bridge nature and finance strategies; and three companies shared lessons learned from enacting their own biodiversity commitments. ... View More

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Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Accelerator Backing Seaweed to Replace Oil-Based Films

Convened by Lonely Whale, the program aims to accelerate scaling and market adoption of seaweed-based alternatives to thin-film plastics made from fossil fuels. ... View More

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Rootree’s Mission to Offer the Most Sustainable Path for Packaging from Concept to Launch

Digital printing has been shown to have many benefits. Compared to traditional printing, digital printing is more efficient, able to deliver higher-quality output, and much better for the environment. In addition, digital printing also offers many de... View More

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Researchers Upcycling Kale, Plastic Waste Into Personal Care, Pharmaceutical Ingredients

Savvy scientists from Scotland and Singapore have developed sustainable ways to breathe new life into vegetable and plastic waste, as well as local manufacturing. ... View More

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How 2 Community-Focused Models Are Creating Value for Filipino Coconut Farmers

Creating truly sustainable models that benefit local communities is a serious and often challenging commitment. But the benefits can be tremendous — both for the business and those in impoverished rural farming regions. ... View More

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Measuring & Improving Brand Portfolio Sustainability to Meet the Demands of a Changing Market

The complex issues facing business and society demand complex and collaborative solutions; disconnected, myopic management techniques are no longer effective. ... View More

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Next-Generation Beauty: How Nature-Inspired Biotech Is Evolving Ethical Skincare

Modern Meadow’s Bio-Coll@gen offers a solution to a long-standing cosmetic and skincare challenge: finding a safe, sustainable and scalable replacement for animal-derived collagen. ... View More

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US States Cracking Down on Toxic Chemicals in Processed Food, Cosmetics

California and Washington are the latest states to attempt to fill gaps in public-health safeguards, thanks to a lack of federal protections against certain commonly used chemicals. ... View More

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Estée Lauder Companies Advances Financial Literacy for Women in Shea Supply Chain

The ELC Charitable Foundation’s work supports programs at the intersection of environmental sustainability and social impact, including investments in communities around the ELC supply chain. ... View More

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L'Oréal, Apple Continue to Cultivate Nature-Based Climate and Biodiversity Solutions

The two companies have expanded the scope and scale of their respective nature-focused impact-investment funds. ... View More

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One Company May Just Solve Some of Our Most Material Issues

Bio-design tech company Modern Meadow develops circular and regenerative approaches to creating a wide range of versatile materials, with no loss of performance or quality, that can be quickly scaled and brought to market. ... View More

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‘Clean Beauty’ Is Just a Pipe Dream If Sustainability Gets Left Behind

Every year, 3B trees are turned into paper packaging for the products we buy — including for many ‘clean’ beauty brands. These brands must take the same holistic approach to their packaging as their ingredients. ... View More

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Give Greater: The 2022 SB Holiday Gift Guide

As always, the goal of our gift guide is to encourage a more conscious approach to gift-giving by highlighting products, services and experiences that create value and benefits beyond short-term gratification for the recipient. Here’s this year’s... View More

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