Winners of the 2022 Sustainable Beauty Awards Announced

Organized by Ecovia Intelligence, the aim of the Sustainable Beauty Awards is to give recognition to operators who are pushing the boundaries of sustainability in the beauty industry.

 

The winners and runners-up were announced at the Sustainable Beauty Awards reception, hosted at the Paris Marriott Champs-Elysées on November 7. The event was co-hosted alongside the European edition of the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit.

Lush (UK) won for new sustainable product with Naked Mascara. The solid make-up product has no packaging; the brush is made from bio-based materials and the ingredients are produced from organic agriculture.

 

O’ right (Taiwan) is runner-up with its Caffeine Melanin Botanical Scalp Revitalizer, a natural alternative to hair dyes.

Laboratoires Expanscience (France) received the top prize for sustainable ingredient with Calybiota Bio. Obtained from the calyx of red kapok flower, sustainably sourced from Burkina Faso, the main application of the COSMOS-certified natural extract is in feminine hygiene products.

 

The two runner-ups are Coffee Resurrect (Ethiopia) with Croil and Fiber, and Fattoria La Vialla (Italy) with Oli Phenolia.

Clariant (Switzerland) took home the sustainable packaging award for its Design4Circularity Packaging Concept. In partnership with Beiersdorf, Siegwerk, and Borealis, the packaging concept involves the use of a recyclable colorless bottle with 100% post-consumer recyclate (PCR) labelled with a printed, de-inkable full-body shrink sleeve. This enables complete sortability in current recycling infrastructures.

 

Lumene (Finland) is the runner-up with Monomaterial Pump, making the packaging easy to recycle.

Weleda (Switzerland) gets top prize for highlighting the importance of soil health via its Save Earth’s Skin campaign. It set up the Living Soil Camp and Inner Work Day this year. By making the link between soil and planet health, the Save Earth’s Skin campaign could help reverse decades of soil erosion.

Lush Cosmetics (UK) is the runner-up for eliminating packaging and encouraging circularity.

AAK Personal Care (Sweden) won the Sustainability Leadership award for building sustainable supply chains for vegetable oils, and is a pioneer in setting up traceable value chains for shea butter, coconut oil and canola oil.

 

Apivita (Greece) and O’ right (Taiwan) are joint runners-up. Both companies have introduced a range of sustainability initiatives that cover packaging, raw materials, production processes and waste management.