Features

Packaging Materials for an Unconventional & Sustainable Path

Heightened consumer preferences and a deeply competitive market make the beauty segment uniquely positioned to experiment with new, more sustainable packaging materials.

Features

New Frontiers in Sustainable Packaging Materials

Raw material and packaging suppliers are meeting sustainability demands with ocean plastics, eco-friendly resins, bagasse, paperboard and molded pulp.

VideoBites

Inoac Finds ‘Resounding Success’ Using Eastman’s Chemically Recycled Packaging Materials

Eastman’s 100% Renew PET resins are the answer ‘to being sustainable while maintaining a brand’s packaging esthetics.’

Beauty Launches

Bayer’s Consumer Health Launches Sustainable Packaging Innovation Challenge

Invites innovators and technologists to share sustainable packaging materials, including biodegradable or compostable, flexible and rigid packaging solutions.

Beauty Industry

Burt’s Bees To Reduce Virgin Packaging Materials By 50% By 2030

Burt's Bees outlines its sustainability goals in its newly released Impact Report—and will launch its first waste-free product in partnership with Loop.

Beauty Industry

Nudestix Launches Nudeskin

The 4-step product line is designed for recycling -- and explains to consumers exactly how to recycle the various packaging materials.

Slideshows

Brands That Tell a Sustainability Story

How brands are showing their eco-responsibility, from packaging materials to ingredients -- and ethics.

Beauty Industry

Demand for Flexible Packaging Drives Growth

Packaging materials with barrier properties, such as high performance films, are in high demand.

Expert's View

Four What Ifs for 2013 – New Horizons in E-Sourcing

Brett Cornell makes the case for using advanced e-sourcing solutions to make the sourcing of packaging materials more efficient.