Guaranteeing Sustainable Sourcing For Our Renewable Raw Materials

Reinforcing our sustainable sourcing methodology

In 2018, L’Oréal continued to implement its sustainable sourcing policy for renewable raw materials, strengthening it with the support of the NGO Rainforest Alliance.

• guaranteeing the traceability of raw materials, which means knowing the origin of the plant and the country in which it was produced;
• evaluating social and environmental issues with suppliers in each sector;
• verifying that the following criteria are respected:
• labour conditions must be decent and safe, in line with human rights and the principles prescribed by the International Labour Organization, across the whole supply chain;
• equal opportunities and zero discrimination between producers are verified, and women’s empowerment is encouraged;
• the growing and harvesting of crops must contribute to improving producers’ livelihoods and respect traditional knowledge of biodiversity, in line with the principles of the Nagoya Protocol;
• cultivation and harvesting practices preserve biodiversity, particularly forests;
• sustainable, low-carbon agricultural practices are in place;
• having this entire process verified by an independent third party, in order to measure the positive impact of the programmes on the respective sectors.