Spotlight on Social Media: the good, the bad and the ugly
An article by the Sustainable Beauty Coalition. The word ‘social’ is embedded in the term CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) as one of the pillars for a sustainable future, sitting there nestled between ‘corporate’ and ‘responsibility’ as a little reminder to us...
Jo Chidley, founder of UK brand Beauty Kitchen, has been appointed as the Vice Chair of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Beauty Coalition (SBC)
Chaired by Jayn Sterland, Managing Director of Weleda UK, the SBC was formed in the summer of 2021 by the British Beauty Council as one of the recommendations from its ground-breaking sustainability report ‘Courage to Change’, published the previous year. The SBC is...
Do you make environmental claims on your products or services?
Last year the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) published the guidance around making environmental claims on goods and services. An increase in consumer demand for products and services which minimise harm to, or have a positive effect on, the environment has...
Sustainable Beauty Coalition: Palm Oil
Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world according to the WWF, and found in an estimated 50% of supermarket products, from detergents to ice cream. It is not only the highest-yielding vegetable oil crop, it requires less than half the land that is...