Christine Esposito, Managing Editor02.03.21
Clean beauty retailer Credo has agreed to work with ChemForward as a codesign partner.
Through the partnership, ChemForward has included Credo’s restricted substances list, known as The Dirty List, in its database, offering ChemForward subscribers what it calls “the biggest list anyone has ever created of ingredients linked to health or environmental issues used in the industry.”
ChemForward calls itself a value-chain collaboration working to advance safer chemistry in product design and manufacturing by expanding access to verified, actionable chemical hazard data and alternatives. An independent project of the non-profit Healthy Building Network, funders include Google, Target, Laudes Foundation, Schmidt Futures, Forsythia Foundation, Passport Capital, and the Roy A. Hunt Foundation.
ChemForward’s cloud-based repository of alternative chemical assessments supports and empowers industry solutions already in use. The company is focused on supporting decision-making for safer products and providing guidance on policy with its data services.
The partnership will facilitate Credo’s collaboration with its brands to boosting supply chain transparency, adoption of chemical management, assessment and safer substitution.
“Credo connects our brand partners and product formulators with platforms like ChemForward so that they can comply with The Dirty List, and go beyond it,” said Mia Davis, director of environmental and social responsibility at Credo. “We want products on our shelves to use ingredients that have been assessed for safety and environmental impact. ChemForward’s makes it easier for our brands to manage chemicals and improve products for their customers and the planet. This is next-level clean beauty."
Credo partners with more than 130 brands to provide beauty and personal care products that meet its Credo Clean Standard.
“Adding The Dirty List to our globally harmonized repository of safer alternatives makes it even easier for brands, formulators and other decisionmakers in beauty and personal care to eliminate chemicals of concern, avoid regrettable substitutions and design safer from the beginning,” said Stacy Glass, ChemForward’s executive director. “By strengthening our work with the partnership of a leader like Credo, we can make even more progress toward ending toxic chemical exposure and advancing health equity.”
Codesign partners are a key element of ChemForward’s work to unlock chemical hazard assessment data, employing a user-centered approach to realize the vision of enabling a prosperous future for all people, the planet and commerce using better chemistry, said the group.
Through the partnership, ChemForward has included Credo’s restricted substances list, known as The Dirty List, in its database, offering ChemForward subscribers what it calls “the biggest list anyone has ever created of ingredients linked to health or environmental issues used in the industry.”
ChemForward calls itself a value-chain collaboration working to advance safer chemistry in product design and manufacturing by expanding access to verified, actionable chemical hazard data and alternatives. An independent project of the non-profit Healthy Building Network, funders include Google, Target, Laudes Foundation, Schmidt Futures, Forsythia Foundation, Passport Capital, and the Roy A. Hunt Foundation.
ChemForward’s cloud-based repository of alternative chemical assessments supports and empowers industry solutions already in use. The company is focused on supporting decision-making for safer products and providing guidance on policy with its data services.
The partnership will facilitate Credo’s collaboration with its brands to boosting supply chain transparency, adoption of chemical management, assessment and safer substitution.
“Credo connects our brand partners and product formulators with platforms like ChemForward so that they can comply with The Dirty List, and go beyond it,” said Mia Davis, director of environmental and social responsibility at Credo. “We want products on our shelves to use ingredients that have been assessed for safety and environmental impact. ChemForward’s makes it easier for our brands to manage chemicals and improve products for their customers and the planet. This is next-level clean beauty."
Credo partners with more than 130 brands to provide beauty and personal care products that meet its Credo Clean Standard.
“Adding The Dirty List to our globally harmonized repository of safer alternatives makes it even easier for brands, formulators and other decisionmakers in beauty and personal care to eliminate chemicals of concern, avoid regrettable substitutions and design safer from the beginning,” said Stacy Glass, ChemForward’s executive director. “By strengthening our work with the partnership of a leader like Credo, we can make even more progress toward ending toxic chemical exposure and advancing health equity.”
Codesign partners are a key element of ChemForward’s work to unlock chemical hazard assessment data, employing a user-centered approach to realize the vision of enabling a prosperous future for all people, the planet and commerce using better chemistry, said the group.