Articles : Sharing Beauty With All

L’Oréal has been conducting lifecycle assessments to measure the environmental impacts of its products for many years. It has identified that water, and in particular the water discharged when the consumer uses the product, as well the carbon emissions linked to the use of hot water during a shower to among its principal impacts on the environment.

In 2018, L’Oréal Paris launched its Stylista Beach Wave Mist. The research behind this product has enabled the creation of an ultra-light mist texture combining two requirements: effectiveness and respect for the environment.

For more than 10 years, L’Oréal has been committed to an ambitious policy regarding sustainable development including an in-depth work on the usage of plastics.

At L’Oréal, water, as an essential component in creating and using our products, is at the heart of our business.

In 2018, L’Oréal collaborated with the NGO SNV (Netherland Development Organisation) to implement a sustainable sourcing project focusing on palm oil derivatives in the region of Berbak in Jambi, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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Established in 1959, the Group’s Settimo plant in Italy specialises in producing make-up and hair care products.

Since 2007, L’Oréal has implemented a responsible packaging policy based on three pillars, known as the “three Rs”: Respect, Reduce and Replace. The Group uses a global, systematic eco-design process, ahead of product design, for the packaging of finished products and also for packaging used during transport.

In addition to its renewable energy production installations, the Burgos plant in Spain established a wastewater recycling system in 2015.