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Ren Clean Screen Mineral SPF30
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Ren Clean Screen Mineral SPF30
Ren has pledged to work towards being 'Waste Free' by 2021. Plus, its award-winning sunscreen contains none of the ingredients that have been linked to coral bleaching and other negative side effects for sea life. Photo: Courtesy
Davines Your Hair Assistant Blowdry Primer
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Davines Your Hair Assistant Blowdry Primer
Before environmental awareness was even on the radar of the collective beauty industry, there was Davines. Set up in 1983 with sustainability already at its heart, the hair brand is committed to improving the world as well as your hair, with a wealth of eco-projects. Photo: Courtesy
Dior Fresh Hydration Sorbet Crème
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Dior Fresh Hydration Sorbet Crème
In a bid to cut down on packaging waste, Dior has taken out the cellophane, excess cardboard and even the paper leaflet previously included with its luxury products. Photo: Courtesy
L'Oréal Professionnel Source Essentielle Daily Shampoo
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L’Oréal Professionnel's vegan haircare collection, Source Essentielle, is, as the name suggests, all about focusing on ingredient transparency. As a result, it is proudly free from sulfates, silicones, parabens, synthetic fragrance and colourings, with packaging designed to hold the maximum amount of product in the minimum amount of recycled plastic. Photo: Courtesy
Cosmydor
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Cosmydor has a strict limited-packaging policy that avoids plastic containers and the formulations focus on natural and organic ingredients with percentages that are clearly marked. The brand's 'little balms' are a highlight, with a rich oil-based texture that hydrates without using large quantities of water. Photo: Courtesy
Medik8 Retinol 3 TR
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Medik8 believe in 'green chemistry', aka the science of making products using energy efficient processes. The brand uses 100% renewable energy sources to power their production line and are attempting to make their products more recyclable too. Photo: Courtesy
Face Halo The Modern Makeup Remover
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Face Halo The Modern Makeup Remover
Stopping the waste caused when you throw away the cotton wool (or worse wipes) you use to take off your make-up, simply wet this soft and fluffy tool (which can be reused up to 200 times) to remove dirt and cosmetics with ease. Photo: Courtesy
Spectrum 10 Piece Essential Set
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Spectrum 10 Piece Essential Set
Spectrum has recently reduced its plastic packaging by 50 per cent and buying one of their beautiful brush sets will also help support plastic clean-up charities, as the brand has pledged to donate 1% of their revenue to protecting the environment. Photo: Courtesy
Jurlique Rosewater Balancing Mist
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Jurlique Rosewater Balancing Mist
In an attempt to reduce its emissions, Jurlique has revolutionised its manufacturing process to encourage water reuse, solar power production, and initiatives such as a tree planting day. Photo: Courtesy
Tata Harper Clarifying Mask
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Tata Harper Clarifying Mask
Tata Harper's skin-loving products are housed in recycled glass - a material that can be continuously recycled - and soy ink is used for the labelling, scoring more sustainability brownie points. It all means you can clean your conscience as well as your skin. Photo: Courtesy
MAC Lipstick
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If you collect and return six finished Mac products to one of the brand's stores (so they can be recycled) you get to select a free lipstick of your choice in return. Photo: Courtesy
Orveda Overnight Skin Recovery Masque
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Orveda Overnight Skin Recovery Masque
Orveda make use of ocean-derived ingredients in their formulas but are hyper-aware about not destroying oceanic resources. Instead they work "with, not against" our oceans, meaning they are mineral oil-free, plastic bead free and vegan. They are also committed to using less than 5% plastic in their products - meaning their formulas are housed in glass bottles. Photo: Courtesy
Soaper Duper Clean & Juicy Passionfruit Body Wash
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Soaper Duper Clean & Juicy Passionfruit Body Wash
Glass, while easily recycled, could be dangerous in the shower, so Soaper Duper focuses on reducing the amount of new plastics created in the world. The brand uses a combination of recycled and recyclable plastic to create its statement bottles. Photo: Courtesy
Cloud Nine Recycling Service
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Cloud Nine Recycling Service
Through Cloud Nine's brilliant sustainability scheme, in three simple steps, you can send in your old hair tools for recycling or reuse. Brilliantly, they can be from any brand, so Cloud Nine’s environmental pledge to save 1.5 million straightening irons from landfill isn’t limited to its own stylers. Photo: Courtesy
Neal's Yard Remedies
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As well as housing its products in recyclable blue glass and 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles, Neal's Yard Remedies has a refill scheme that allows you to top up two of its products - Geranium & Orange Hand Wash and Bee Lovely Bath & Shower Gel - for just two pounds in participating stores. Photo: Courtesy
Dame Reusable Tampon Appllicator Set
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Dame Reusable Tampon Appllicator Set
You may not have stopped to think about the sustainability of your menstrual health routine but 100 billion period products are thrown away every year. Dame is trying to cut down the amount of disposable applicators ending up in landfill with its clever and easy-to-use reusable alternative. Photo: Courtesy
Floral Street Wonderland Peony
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Floral Street Wonderland Peony
British fragrance brand Floral Street has committed itself to subverting the norm for excessive packaging in the perfume industry, choosing 100 oer cent compostable boxes and sugar cane tubes, over tissue paper, cellophane and plastic. Photo: Courtesy
Kiehl's Powerful-Strength Line-Reducing Concentrate
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Kiehl’s Powerful-Strength Line-Reducing Concentrate
In order to help consumers recycle their empty Kiehl's products, the brand has a stamp system, which allows you to return 10 empties in return for travel-sized products. Photo: Courtesy
Sana Jardin Tiger By Her Side Eau de Parfum No. 2 100ml
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Tiger By Her Side Eau de Parfum No. 2 100ml
Sana Jardin uses sustainable and waste-reducing techniques to create its scents. The brand also supports the female flower harvesters they employ in Morocco by helping them create and run their own businesses, using by-products from the fragrance-making process. Photo: Courtesy
Colgate Smile for Good Toothpaste
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Colgate Smile for Good Toothpaste
Colgate's two new toothpastes - one for protection and one for whitening - tick all the right boxes for sustainable beauty lovers. Not only do they efficiently keep your teeth clean and healthy, they also comes in the industry's first recyclable tube and are certified by the Vegan Society. Photo: Colgate
Clean Reserve Sola Bloom eau de parfum
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Clean Reserve Sola Bloom eau de parfum
Clean by name, clean by nature. All of Clean Reserve's fragrances are created using responsibly sourced ingredients, manufactured using solar-power and the packaging is made from recycled and recyclable materials. Photo: Courtesy
Aveda Invati Advanced Exfoliating Shampoo
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Aveda Invati Advanced Exfoliating Shampoo
Aveda has long been committed to environmental sustainability and managing its ecological footprint, resulting in 85 per cent of its skincare and haircare products being made of 100 per cent recycled materials. Photo: Courtesy
Yes to Cucumbers Hypoallergenic Facial Wipes
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Yes to Cucumbers Hypoallergenic Facial Wipes
If you are really struggling to eliminate wipes from your beauty routine entirely, at least switch to Yes To's 100% cellulose variety, which are biodegradable and compostable. They also do not contain any plastic binders, as the vegan brand is committed to lowering the amount of plastic dumped into our oceans each year. Photo: Courtesy
Burt's Bees Lip Balm
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Bee numbers are dwindling, which is bad news for some of your favourite fruits and vegetables, which need pollinators to grow. Burt's Bees are committed to reversing this decrease with their #BringBackTheBees campaign. Photo: Courtesy
We Are Paradoxx Hangover Hair Elixir
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We Are Paradoxx Hangover Hair Elixir
We Are Paradoxx is a haircare brand with a sense of fun as well as a conscious. The creative products are 90 per cent plastic free with a focus on sourcing all of its tresses-boosting ingredients as sustainably as possible. Photo: Courtesy
