November 11, 2021
Read our guide to the top paraben-free makeup kit brands available today. Learn about the non-toxic, organic, stylish beauty brands you'll love to wear today.
May 27, 2021
Yangi has been awarded with a prestigious Dieline Award in the Health, Body and Beauty category. We are very excited to announce that we have been awarded a Dieline Sustainable Packaging Award for our work with Yangi – a fiber-based alternative to plastic beauty packaging, a collaboration development between The Loop Factory and Grow. Yangi... The post Yangi wins a Dieline Sustainable Packaging Award!
...May 24, 2021
Australian personal care brand Natures Organics has launched ‘My Soda’, the first haircare brand in Australia to offer sustainable refill solutions in supermarkets, designed to curb plastic waste by almost 80%, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Namrata Sain, Consumer Insights Analyst at GlobalData, says: “As consumers turn away from single-use plastics,
...April 8, 2021
QUT researchers have used carbon dots from human hair waste sourced at a Brisbane barbershop to create a kind of ‘armour’ for solar technology. It has been shown that these carbon nanodots could be used to improve the performance of perovskites solar cells. The research study, led by Professor Hongxia Wang in collaboration with Associate Professor Prashant Sonar of QUT’s Centre
...February 18, 2021
These days, it’s hard to argue that sustainability is a niche consumer interest. A vast majority of consumers worldwide believe we need to consume less, according to research by GlobeScan. More to the point, 57 percent of consumers in that survey were willing to pay more for sustainable products. But only about a quarter of them actually made any sustainable changes to their lifestyle or consumption. So
...October 22, 2020
All our best advice on taking care of your face and the planet at the same time.
August 21, 2020
Why e-commerce retailers should increase transparency about their products Deonna Anderson Fri, 08/21/2020 - 01:15 When shopping online, consumers are able to see a lot of information about a product. There’s the product description and specifications of an item. For a bottle of perfume, the listing would declare the fluid ounces and describe the scent. A piece of clothing would show
...August 18, 2020
Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry Jesse Klein Tue, 08/18/2020 - 02:00 The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. And it knows it. A quick Google search brings up articles from Allure, National Geographic, Forbes, Teen Vogue and 31,800,000 other results about the issue. It seems those concerns finally have reached a critical mass,
...July 20, 2020
"It wasn't supposed to work."
June 5, 2020
It’s no secret that I’m on a mission to remove as many toxic chemicals from my home as possible. I’ve tackled my makeup bag, skin, haircare and household cleaning products. Next on my list? My pads and tampons.