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!
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.
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.
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.
UpCircle Elevates Skincare Through Creative Reuse and Circular Design
UpCircle is a UK-based skincare brand pioneering the use of upcycled leftover natural ingredients in the beauty industry. UpCircle transforms food waste — like used coffee grounds, chai tea spices, oat husks and fruit byproducts — into high-performance skincare products, including coffee scrubs, face serums, balms and cleansers.
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.
Spotlight: Disruptor London
Disruptor London is an innovative beauty brand known for its edgy approach to personal care, offering products that blend high-quality ingredients with bold, modern aesthetics. By embedding eco-conscious practices into its business model, Disruptor London aims to inspire its customers to make responsible choices, contributing to a more sustainable future in the beauty industry.
Spotlight: Aora Mexico
Aora México is a luxury makeup brand founded in 2022, committed to providing high-quality beauty products with a strong focus on sustainability. Based in Mexico City, the brand aims to redefine luxury beauty by combining artistry and sustainability, bringing a fresh, eco-conscious approach to the beauty market.
Spotlight: Tata Harper Skincare
Tata Harper Skincare is a pioneering luxury beauty brand founded by Tata Harper in 2010. Based in Vermont, the company is known for its commitment to clean beauty, using 100% natural and non-toxic ingredients.
Spotlight: Sustainable Beauty News Highlights
Markham launches vegan-friendly collection for men. Euromonitor reports 10% sustainable beauty product growth. Focus on sustainable packaging for premium beauty. Envisioning a sustainable path for cosmetics. L'Oreal / Debut partner on fermentation-based ingredients. And much more.
Spotlight: Sustainable Beauty & Cosmetics News Highlights
L'Oreal to measure footprint of retail elements. Estee Lauder updates on sustainable packaging. Launches of Good Condition (sustainable skincare), BareEarthBeauty.com (natural beauty online store). L'Oreal/Watsons accelerate sustainable beauty in the philippines. And much more…
Spotlight: Sustainable Beauty News Highlights
A landscape of the state of sustainable beauty. Refillable skincare pouches from Dionis. Refillable shampoo in a can from Menz Club. Kiehl's on making sustainable cool. Upcycling food waste into beauty. Beauty experts discuss sustainable packaging. Sephora expands takeback, refillables. And much more…
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: L'Oréal, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Boots UK, YSL Beauty, LUSH, Groupe Clarins, LĀ SOL Collective, COOLA, Arcade Beauty, BASF, SEPHORA, AS Watson, Tree Bottle, Eco Bio Boutique, CivicScience, Green Circle Salons, Farmacy Beauty, ILIA Beauty, Pact Collective, NOBLE PANACEA, APG Globe (Alliance Packaging Group), Give Back Beauty, Mercedes-Benz AG and many more.
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: Ulta Beauty, LUSH, Prevented Ocean Plastic, Babo Botanicals, Coty, L’OCCITANE Group, Berry Global, Inc., Weleda AG, Kering, CHANEL, Evolve Organic Beauty, Quadpack | Certified B Corp, Gerresheimer Glass, Inc., Guyenne Papier, Cosmopak USA LLC, TotalEnergies Corbion, Sulapac Ltd and many more.
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: Evolved By Nature, Barentz, Seadrop Skincare, BRIXY, Collistar, APC Packaging, Genie Supply, M1 Kliniken AG, Ecovia Intelligence , Neutrogena, evolvetogether, UpCircle, SOSHE Beauty, Neal's Yard Remedies, Earthraga and many more.
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: L'Oréal, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Unilever, CHANEL, Groupe Clarins, Albéa Group, Coty, SEPHORA, NOCIBE, Circul'R, Hermès, Kiehl's Since 1851, Diptyque Paris, Future Origins, Genie Supply, Sulapac Ltd, Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC, Ecovia Intelligence and many more.
Video: 5 in 5 (week in review)
Check out episode 15 of my new weekly video recap of five highlights in sustainable living news in five minutes curated from my #SustainableLife blog at greenlivingdoug.com. Today's recap includes: electric vehicles 2023 sales results and 2024 outlook, sustainability driving brand preference in the Beauty sector, sustainability as a differentiator in home sales, the GrubHub Food Trends Report sees the importance of sustainability in restaurants, and a new partnership to advance electric motorsports – on land and sea.