Sustainability Excellence Presented By DSM-Firmenich
Sustainability Excellence Award
Sustainability Excellence Award
Amika
amika
To live up to its tagline, “All hair is welcome,” the company offers 11 collections for every type, texture, and style and has pledged to reduce their emissions to zero where they can and offset them when they can’t by 2030. Currently, their packaging is up to 90% post-consumer recycled plastic.
Sustainability Excellence Award
BRIXY
Brixy’s mission is to bring exceptional beauty products to market without contributing to the planet’s ever-worsening plastic waste problem. The company uses premium ingredients such as coconut oil, argan oil and provitamin B to make hair and skin care bars that last two times longer than water-based products sold in bottles.
Sustainability Excellence Award
Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC
Indigenous-owned Cheekbone Beauty ensures their products follow the rules of fair trade and meet the Clean + Planet Positive standards set by Sephora Canada. They also offer refillable and performance-based products to help empower their customers to have fun with makeup. For transparency and to help set future goals, they produce an annual public Sustainability Report.
Sustainability Excellence Award
Here We Flo
Period products, bladder care, and safe sex are the domains of this women-of-color owned brand. They use only biodegradable materials and give 5% of their profits to The Orchid Project, a charity fighting to end female genital mutilation as well as AKT, the English LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity.
Sustainability Excellence Award
Lumene
The company uses only high-quality, upcycled ingredients like cloudberry, Finnish oats, and bilberry to create their skin care and makeup must-haves. The founders have also invested in a dedicated Finnish factory so they can manage their emissions, water consumption, recycling, and supply chain.
Sustainability Excellence Award
Prose
As the first and only carbon-neutral custom beauty brand, this industry-disrupter’s made-to-order model creates less waste than products that are mass produced. Meanwhile, the brand’s inclusive strategy involves prioritizing partners that work in Brooklyn, NY and are dedicated to championing individuals in every community.
Sustainability Excellence Award
superzero International
Each waterless, carbon neutral Superzero bar packs five times the scalp and hair ingredients found in luxury liquid hair care products, is plastic- and microplastic-free and leaves hair stronger, with less visible damage and longer-lasting color.
Sustainability Excellence Award
Vintner's Daughter
Vintner’s Daughter’s philosophy centers on offering multi-beneficial products so that fewer products are produced and natural resources are preserved. Additionally, they source their ingredients from organic farming practices, and produce packaging with 80% post-consumer recycled materials.
