Respect & New Br’earth

In recent years, consumers have become more conscious of the ingredients they use on their skin, wanting healthier and more natural cosmetics. As a result, they initiated strong movements for organic and natural cosmetics that promise to be better for both the body and the planet. Concepts, such as clean beauty, green beauty, or zero waste cosmetics have emerged pushing for sustainable beauty: a fastly growing market. In this article, the ALPOL Cosmetique’s teams dig into eco-friendly skin care emerging concepts, principles, advantages and beauty brands commitments.

Already well developed in the fields of design, decoration, fashion and textiles, the concept of upcycling is the current trend in terms of sustainable development. Lately, beauty brands have been turning to the upcycled cosmetics ingredients as a means of chipping away at the industry’s rampant waste problem. But what is upcycling exactly and how does it work in cosmetics?

Sustainability seems to be the way forward for beauty brands to develop skincare products. Although they bring increasing imagination to recycling beauty packaging and developing natural formulations, a shift is happening with upcycling cosmetic ingredients. The phenomenon is growing in the beauty sector as it opens up new perspectives for sustainable formulations. How can by-products be integrated into care formulas? ALPOL Cosmetique shares the secrets of its Upcycl’Care range, made in part from upcycled active ingredients.

Green Beauty, also known as natural beauty, is a booming market in the field of cosmetics.
Consumers are more and more aware and alert to the possible damages beauty products they buy and use can have on their health and the environment. They have become more demanding to products composition as well as the origin of their raw materials.
Alpol Cosmetique looks into the Green Beauty trend, its properties and how to develop a natural beauty product.

Global awareness about a cleaner production for the environment and the growing consumer demand for natural and organic beauty products are forcing cosmetics manufacturers to find environmental-friendly chemistry processes. From chemistry-based solutions to safer, greener and sustainable chemistry alternatives, their focus is significantly shifting towards green chemistry. But what is it exactly? And how is it applied in the cosmetics industry?

What is this clean cosmetics movement? Is it a gateway to a truly cleaner and more effective cosmetics? Are its trends and positions destined to evolve? Are there any Clean Beauty labels? What are the success factors of this clean cosmetics?
ALPOL Cosmetics deciphers the subject with Pascal BROUSSE, founder of Trend Sourcing.