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Our beauty routines can accumulate a lot of plastic waste through the packaging. Heavy shampoo bottles. Elaborate boxes that are made shiny with plastic film. More plastic bottles, this time with creams and serums. And, all of the paper and plastic that items are shipped or wrapped in during our trips to the store. All of this packaging builds up to more than 120 billion pieces of waste. Most of this accumulates in our landfills, due to a lack of recycling know-how on consumers’ part and lack of recycling ability due to machinery. Since plastic is becoming an ever growing threat to our resources- clean water, air and soil- and declared a global crisis by organizations like the United Nations, it’s important for us as consumers to seek out sustainable alternatives. One solution is to look for zero waste products.
Zero waste products offer us an opportunity to buy the items that we love and use everyday, but with less waste. Packaging for these items has been carefully considerd so that plastic bottles can be refilled, tubes composted (to return to the earth for nutrient-rich soil) and aluminium or paper boxes can be recycled. Of course, the best zero waste products don’t have packaging at all. But, for those of us still testing out solid shampoos and dishsoaps, this roundup is a variety of sustainable packaging so that we can all find something that suits our lifestyle to make a positive difference.
Public Goods: Refills on everyday products
Public Goods stands for saving the planet with affordable zero waste products. Their skincare offer is quite varied, contributing to a healthier and more sustainable home throw refillable sets and plastic-free packaging. The Welcome Kit is especially interesting because it is a combination of the best-selling care products from the brand.
Environmental Impact: Their different approaches and commitment to sustainability vary from building a tree for each new member to offering refillable products to minimize your plastic use. The natural formulas are made of plant-based ingredients are cruelty-free and vegan.
True Botanicals: Luxury skincare packaged in recycable glass
True Botanicals appreciates the beauty of natural skincare, with a special note to choosing nature over toxins.
Environmental Impact: The brand ethically sources its plant-based ingredients without the addition of chemicals or fillers. Its products are clinically proven to work at the highest standards and provide excellent results and come packaged in recyclable glass containers.
Fat and the Moon: Natural & zero waste skincare
Fat and the Moon comes as part of the innovation movement for a cleaner skincare industry.
Environmental Impact: What makes them stand out is the zero waste skincare for sensitive skin. All the products from the brand’s offer are natural, organic, cruelty-free, and palm-oil-free. The combination of being vegan only adds to their excellent benefits and the fact that items are packaged in recyclable cardboard.
Eco Roots: Zero waste beauty products
Eco Roots was founded as an eco-friendly brand offering zero waste products for your house and home, Eco Roots stand to inform people of the reality and the impact that single-use plastic products have on the environment, planet, and future generations.
Environmental Impact: With that in mind, the brand started with a change in the packaging, which is 100% plastic-free, and moved to high-quality and affordable skincare products that help reduce waste. They also donate 1% of the sales annually towards sustainable initiatives.
Lush: Natural Ingredients, Solid Products & Zero Packaging
Lush is a very well-known natural skincare brand. Each product comes as a blend that best presents the brand’s mission.
Environmental Impact: Every raw material is carefully sourced, made fresh by the local factories around the world, and more. The brand is making an impact by supporting regenerative farming and zero waste product options such as zero packaging or refillable containers.
ETEE:Commmercially compostable packaging
Pretty new on the sustainable skincare market, ETEE has already made a boom and became popular for its cleaner and greener products. ETEE zero-waste approach comes in a range of eco-friendly personal care essentials.
Environmental Impact: They hand-make body soaps, lip bombs (balms), lotion bars, and facial cleansing bars that are free from toxins and packaged without plastic. Not only do they practice saying ‘goodbye to plastic’, but they also help to educate customers on the importance of going plastic-free.
Emipre Squid Organics: Organic & Reusable Packacing
EmpireSquid Organics offers a huge range of handcrafted cruelty-free zero waste skincare products.
Environmental Impact: It is vegan, cruelty-free, palm oil-free and organic and does not contain any toxins. Additionally to the ingredients, the packaging is also sustainable, made of reusable glass.