When L’Oréal announced its Sharing Beauty With All sustainability program in 2013, the beauty industry took note of the global leader’s ambitious goal of ensuring that by 2020, 100% of the company’s products would show environmental or social improvement. The Group has been hard at work and has just released a progress report.
 
According to Alexandra Palt, L’Oréal’s Chief Sustainability Officer,  “The mobilization of all L’Oréal teams allowed us to roll out the Sharing Beauty with All program worldwide on a solid basis. We will now move to an acceleration phase to achieve our targets by 2020.”
 
Here are some of the achievements made to-date:
 
·      74% of L’Oréal products launched in 2015 have a positive environmental or social profile (vs 67% in 2014).
·      In 2015, several brands launched products with formulas offering a level of biodegradability between 97 and 99%, including Garnier Ultra Doux Mythical Olive body lotion, Kérastase Fusio-Dose Booster Discipline, Ushuaïa Hibiscus Bio deodorant, Armani Men Master Cleanser and Vichy After-Sun Shower Oil.
·      CO₂ emissions of production decreased by 56% in absolute terms (vs -50.2% in 2014), despite a production increase of 26%, from a 2005 baseline.
·      66.6% of L’Oréal’s brands evaluated the environmental or social profile of their products (vs 22% in 2014)
·      More than 60 600 people from underprivileged communities had access to work through a L’Oréal program.
 
Sharing Beauty With All is completely integrated in L’Oréal’s value chain; this program is based on four pillars:
·      Innovating sustainably, to reduce the environmental footprint of products and formulas;
·      Producing sustainably, to reduce the environmental footprint of plants and distribution centers;
·      Living sustainably, to empower consumers to make sustainable choices;
·      Developing sustainably, by sharing growth with internal and external stakeholders (communities, suppliers and employees).
 
 
Read the full report here.
See the video of 2015 main results here.
Watch for Beauty Packaging’s interview with Jonathan Maher, vice president CSR & Sustainability at L’Oréal USA, in the upcoming April/May issue.