Cosmetic manufacturers, aware of the current environmental concerns, are releasing new technologies at a breakneck pace in order to enable customers to adopt a more sustainable and responsible beauty regimen. Let’s take a look at some of the most recent developments. 

Consumers have already begun to eliminate all superfluous items from their bathrooms in order to adopt a cleaner beauty regimen using natural fibers, solid cosmetics, and washable, reusable accessories, according to the data.

In the direction of circularity

While it’s far from a miracle cure, decreasing trash generation necessitates first recycling or upcycling packaging, or biologically degrading it. Cosmetic companies are now focusing their research on these challenges, and some have even begun to provide new remedies. 

Juni Cosmetics is one of the companies that has made a great effort to recycle. Madeleine White, a cosmetic artist, founded the company, which collaborated with designers to eliminate plastic from its beauty goods.

The result is a high-end lipstick capsule collection (“Luxury Hydrating Lipstick”) with great moisturizing power, created with organic oils, vitamin E, and plant hyaluronic acid, and whose tubes are entirely composed of aluminum, making them 100% recyclable. 

The whole lipstick tube, including the mechanism’s gears, is constructed of aluminum, allowing customers to recycle the product without having to disassemble it. The lipstick is certified vegan and made with only organic and environmentally sourced components.

In a similar line, Izzy Zero Trash Beauty has released the world’s first reusable and recyclable mascara, which produces no waste. “Zero Waste Mascara” is constructed of stainless steel tube and supplied in reusable envelopes produced from recycled materials without any packaging. A subscription service allows customers to get a new sterilized and filled mascara every three months, along with a pre-paid envelope to return the existing mascara, which will be thoroughly cleaned and replaced.

It’s an eyeliner that turns into flowers. 

Sprout World, a Danish firm that specializes in sustainable writing instruments, has also made a step toward a circular beauty regimen. It just came out with a plantable eyeliner. With one exception, the “Sprout eyeliner,” which is devoid of microplastics, is applied like any other eyeliner. It may be put in a container and watered to turn into blooms towards the end of its life. This is made feasible by the seed-filled capsule tucked at the very end of the product. 

These may appear to be little advancements, but they demonstrate that businesses have begun to develop sustainable alternatives to traditional cosmetics in order to make bathrooms more environmentally friendly.

Provide re-usable packaging options

Beauty businesses have been under growing pressure in recent years to develop reusable or refillable packaging designs. These are aiding in the reduction of overconsumption and the promotion of a more circular economy while also providing a new source of value.

Organic waste can be recycled.

Waste may decrease the cost of goods, giving firms an even stronger incentive to embrace this environmentally responsible strategy. This product is an insect-infused skin oil that upcycles organic plant waste by using insects.

To promote skin health in a unique way, the skin oil is made up of 20% black soldier fly larval oil — one of the world’s most sustainable and nutrient-rich insects.

Use natural products and stay local.

The epidemic has highlighted the significance of buying locally produced beauty ingredients for French customers, who prefer to use locally sourced beauty and personal care products from their own region, with more than half willing to pay extra for them.

L’Accent, a French independent company, has produced a “dermo-maquillage” combination of skincare and cosmetics. L’Accent hand-picks chestnuts from the Cévennes mountains in central France and grinds them into a fine, colored moisturizing powder that is naturally high in antioxidants.

Makesenz develops natural goods that are organic, local, and waste-free. Their goal is to produce “less, but better” goods that will appeal to the almost six out of ten French beauty and personal care customers who are worried about the sustainability of the components used in natural products.

Make an effort to be carbon neutral.

Carbon neutrality is a comprehensive method to decreasing a company’s environmental and climatic effect. Looking at the whole supply chain, an increasing number of independent businesses are developing carbon-neutral products, seeking to help both customers and the environment. In the next years, this will be where a lot of consumer attention will be focused.

At Molpack we help brands to develop skincare that is biodegradable, refillable, and carbon neutral. We have helped brands to create their skincare capsules that come in re-usable “home jars” with 100 drops of cleaning gel for “clean, soft, smooth skin.” Each skincare drop is 100% biodegradable and manufactured from sustainable seaweed. The Bolt drops are refillable from biodegradable bags, and the brand’s jars are designed to last a lifetime.

There are brands that even employ carbon offsetting to create carbon-neutral goods. This implies that the company offsets all of its carbon emissions, from shipping items to stores to running the machines that manufacture them to the electricity that lights their headquarters.