Assessing and managing your supply chains environmental and human health risks. You can do this by working with supply chain partners to adhere sustainable supply chain standards, for example sourcing ingredients and natural materials (e.g., coffee, cacao, cotton, palm oil, and wood, paper, pulp).

Develop a long-term strategy to forecast, mitigate, and adapt both your company and communities to physical and transition risks and opportunities posed by climate change. You should try to mitigate impacts of severe weather events and changing climate patterns on both human health and operations, and support the resiliency of communities before, during, and after severe weather events.

Businesses should responsibly and sustainably handle waste materials (e.g., hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste, chemicals, recyclable items, items for potential reuse, and recovered items through waste recovery) from stores, distribution centres, corporate offices and other facilities.

Reducing the negative impacts of product plastics and plastic packaging in your brand products and goods resold to consumers. Optimise efforts in packaging to reduce plastic use, increase recyclability or composability, and minimise single-use plastics through programmes such as product take-back and packaging disposal.

Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution by reducing your energy usage, electrification, switching to renewable energy sources, and driving overall reduction activities in operations and value chain.

Promoting and fostering the sustainable management of water resources. You should work to improve water efficiency over time and reduce water consumption and use in operations.

Support the humane treatment of animals and contributing to efforts (e.g., research or financial support) to develop alternative methods to reduce or eliminate the testing of products or ingredients on animals.

Employees should be kept healthy and safe by maintaining high standard working conditions, complying with regulations, and conforming with company policies.

Work with supply chin partners to protect fundamental rights and adhere to standards for supply chain sustainability and human rights (e.g., working conditions, anti-slavery, anti-trafficking, freedom of expression, freedom of association and collective bargaining, conflict minerals).

Commit and invest in human capital by attracting, developing and retaining talent, including the prioritisation of employee mental health and the provision of development opportunities that enable skills development and professional growth. Good practice includes offering fair compensation and benefits to employees and committing to continued employee engagement.

Operate with ethics, integrity and comply with relevant regulations and the highest standards of ethical and lawful conduct. You should implement policies and procedures that protect your people and prohibit bribery and other forms of corruption. Fostering a transparent corporate culture where employees, officers and directors practice sound ethics.

Businesses should have safeguards in place against cyber-attacks, security threats, operational disruptions and data breaches. 

Advocating on topics of importance to the beauty industry and consumers (e.g. mental health and wellbeing, animal testing, regulation, education and training, sustainability, social mobility).

Remaining competitive in the marketplace through investment in innovative products, services and technologies.

Fair and responsible marketing communications, as well as access to information about the ingredients of products, and their proper use and disposal, helping consumers make informed choices.