Solutions
Looking for inspiration and solutions for living more sustainably? Check out these daily highlights of innovative brands and products in apparel, home, food, travel, beauty, spirits, mobility and more!
Youth to the People Is Redefining What Conscious Skin Care Can Be
Youth to the People is a skincare leader proving that high-performance formulas and responsible design can go hand in hand. With pro-grade vegan ingredients, low-impact packaging and a commitment to climate justice, they’re shaping a beauty industry rooted in transparency and care.
Our Faves: Clean Beauty and Personal Care Brands Leading a Healthier Future
Clean beauty brands are redefining personal care by replacing harsh chemicals and single-use plastics with skin-loving ingredients and planet-friendly packaging. This post spotlights industry leaders proving that sustainability and skincare go hand in hand — delivering performance without compromise.
Rooted in Identity, Driven by Impact at Cheekbone Beauty
Cheekbone Beauty, an Indigenous-owned cosmetics brand founded by Jenn Harper, is redefining clean beauty through vegan formulas created without harmful ingredients and guided by its Biinard Beauty Standards. Grounded in Indigenous principles like Two-Eyed Seeing and the 7th Generation Principle, the brand blends sustainability, circular design and cultural integrity to make beauty both ethical and empowering.
How Every Man Jack Balances Clean Ingredients with Real Impact
Every Man Jack built its name on simple, effective grooming, and now it’s redefining what “clean” means. From natural ingredients and recyclable packaging to a B Corp commitment that puts people and planet first, this Bay Area-born brand shows how everyday routines can lead to meaningful impact.
Lush Shows Beauty Can Be Bold, Fresh and Waste-Free
Lush is a UK-born beauty brand founded in 1995, known for its colorful bath bombs, fresh handmade cosmetics and bold stance on ethical sourcing and sustainability. Today, Lush operates shops in nearly 50 countries and continues to push the beauty industry toward cleaner, more responsible practices.
Credo Beauty Raises the Bar for Clean Beauty
Credo Beauty is the largest clean beauty retailer in the U.S., offering a curated collection of 130+ brands across skincare, haircare, makeup and fragrance, all vetted to meet its strict clean ingredient and ethical sourcing standards.
La Bouche Rouge Elevates Beauty with Refillable Luxury and Zero Waste Design
La Bouche Rouge is a Paris-based luxury beauty brand on a mission to merge French craftsmanship, high-performance makeup and environmental responsibility. Founded in 2017, the company is reinventing beauty through clean formulations, natural ingredients and sustainable design.
The Upcycled Beauty Company Transforms Waste into High-Performance Skincare
The Upcycled Beauty Company is a UK-based ingredient supplier working to help every beauty and personal care product to be made from upcycled materials (ingredients to packaging) by working with brands to create high-quality, natural products with a modern, sustainable edge.
Ursa Major Brings Clean Performance to the Skincare Routine
Ursa Major is a Vermont-based skincare company committed to raising the bar for what it means to be a sustainable skincare company. Founded with a belief that great skincare can be clean, effective and a pleasure to use, the brand offers a curated range of products including face washes, toners and serums as well as body and hair offerings.
Winky Lux Brings Clean Beauty and Sustainable Joy to Everyday Routines
Winky Lux is a beauty brand “here to be fabulous, not harmful.” On a mission to create luxury makeup at an affordable price point, the brand is known for its colorful, whimsical packaging and clean, cruelty-free formulations. Winky Lux’s wide range of products span skincare, lipsticks, eyeshadows and more and are sold online and through various major retailers.
Noble Panacea Advances Luxury Skincare through Green Science and Refill Design
Founded by Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart, Noble Panacea is a luxury skincare brand focused on creating with intention and deep respect for the natural world by adhering to the global principles of green chemistry. Noble Panacea’s “Responsible Beauty” value informs every element of the brand, including green production processes, sustainable packaging and clean formulations.
Spotlight: California Naturals
California Naturals is redefining the beauty industry with a commitment to clean and naturally-derived hair and body products that prioritize both people and the planet. Rooted in the golden state’s love for nature and wellness, the brand formulates its products with high-quality, naturally derived ingredients and ensures that every product is cruelty-free and dermatologist-tested, offering safe and effective skincare solutions for conscious consumers.
Spotlight: ILIA Beauty
ILIA Beauty is a clean beauty brand known for its high-performance, skin-centric makeup products that prioritize both aesthetics and skincare benefits. Founded in 2011 by Sasha Plavsic,
sustainability is a core pillar of ILIA Beauty, and the brand takes a holistic approach to minimizing its environmental impact.
Spotlight: RMS Beauty
RMS Beauty is a clean beauty brand founded by makeup artist Rose-Marie Swift in 2009. The brand focuses on creating high-performance makeup and skincare products made from raw, organic, and food-grade ingredients.
Spotlight: MOB Beauty
MOB Beauty is an innovative cosmetics brand that aims to deliver professional-quality, clean, and high-performance makeup while addressing significant issues in the beauty industry, such as waste and unsustainable practices. Through their sustainability initiatives, MOB is setting new standards in eco-friendly beauty, combining innovation with environmental stewardship.
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: SEPHORA, Ulta Beauty, Fluency Beauty, Boop, Every Man Jack, Shoppers Drug Mart, TerraCycle, Kiehl's Since 1851, NIVEA, Cabeco, Smithers, L'Oréal, Sparxell, Yves Rocher, GEKA GmbH, LG Chem, Ecovia Intelligence and many more.
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: Harrods, The Body Shop, BEAUTYSTREAMS , Orveon Global, CleanHub, Sia Partners, Quadpack | Certified B Corp, Filtrona, Infinite Online Shopping Pvt. Ltd., Trivium Packaging, Tata Harper Skincare, BAMBII Beauty, New Laboratories Cosmetic Manufacturing and many more.