5 quick tips to make your beauty business website more sustainable
When you consider the impact you make as a beauty business, what comes to mind? The waste you create and the way you produce energy may be at the forefront, but have you thought about the effect of your business website? Internet use accounts for roughly 3.7% of global greenhouse…
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Legology joins 2 environment-friendly initiatives to step up sustainability game
Leg care brand, Legology is joining two sustainability initiatives; rePurpose Global and World Land Trust in a bid to improve its sustainability as a brand. Legology is a leg care brand which focuses on providing solutions to common leg problems. Using the Lymphology complex, founder, Kate Shapland set out to…
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First ‘Carbon Neutral Salon Certification’ announced in North America
Green Circle Salons, a North American beauty waste recovery service and the world’s first sustainable salon solution, has announced the first Carbon Neutral Salon Certification. The firm helps the North American salon industry to reduce its environmental footprint, with Green Circle Salons members empowered to recover up to 95% of…
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Earthy Nail Polish: for green salons looking to retail a plant-based colour collection
If you want to widen your customer reach and retail with a conscience, then Earthy Nail Polish is a great option for your salon shelves. Earthy Nail Polish, born from a frustration towards unsustainable cosmetic products presents a core mission to provide the highest quality products with the least impact…
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OPI partners with the Green Salon Collective
OPI has announced its partnership with the Green Salon Collective, an environmental disposal service for salon waste. OPI’s partnership with Green Salon Collective follows on a successful partnership with Wella Professionals, as a part of OPI’s parent company, Wella Company’s ongoing commitment to sustainability. “It is our responsibility to help our…
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9 ways to make your nail & beauty business more sustainable
While recycling plays a big part of helping the environment, running a sustainable business is so much more than just that. There are many factors to consider when seeking to make your business more sustainable. It is important to try to source sustainable products from the get-go, but it is…
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Green is the new black – sustainability overview & directives for the beauty industry
Sustainability Matters The global climate strike, stark and scary documentaries, electric cars, reusable coffee cups… over the past few years, sustainability has become more and more ingrained into our daily lives and the choices that we make. So, if we’re trying our best as consumers, are the brands and businesses…
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Behind the Brand: Meet Zee Broomhall, founder of Eco Salon Supplies
After running her own home salon for 5 years, Zee Broomhall decided to create her own product range after trying to find more sustainable options for her own business. “When aiming to be more sustainable in my own salon I came across many barriers. I couldn’t get all the alternatives…
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Treatwell celebrates Earth Day by spotlighting 3 top green salons
Salon booking service, Treatwell, reveals the importance of sustainability, organic/eco products and ‘being green’ when choosing a hair, beauty or wellness salon and treatments. For Treatwell, ‘Earth Day’ – 22nd of April – is about connecting customers with sustainable and eco-friendly salons and treatments, undertaking research* conducted in April 2021,…
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Garnier pledges to plant 400,000 trees by the end of October
Garnier has teamed up with UK-based Almond, a climate solutions platform that helps businesses to naturally reduce carbon, as part of their commitment to ‘green beauty’. This partnership will see Garnier plant 400,000 trees by the end of October. The global beauty brand has pledged to plant one tree for…
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Cosmetics industry predicted to move towards up-cycled ingredients
Food byproducts are being increasingly up-cycled as raw materials by the cosmetics industry, according to Ecovia Intelligence. Food byproducts are already established as a source of natural ingredients and some, such as palm kernel oil, are widely used in cosmetic and personal care products. There is greater demand for such…
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Revealed: What the beauty sector will look like in 2030
‘More transparent’ and with a focus on ‘clean beauty’ are just two of the predictions for the 2030 beauty sector, according to global market research & insight company, Mintel. The company has forecast that consumers will explore the push-pull between nature and science, with huge changes to the way beauty…
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Nail students showcase sustainability themed competition creations
Sarah Brenton-Sara, lecturer in Level 2 & 3 Nail Services & Beauty Therapy at Truro & Penwith College, reveals how her students have been learning & developing their skills during lockdown… It has been a turbulent year for the nail industry, however my part-time nail students have excellent throughout lockdown and created some…
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CIDESCO launches sustainability initiative
CIDESCO, the world standard for beauty and spa therapy, is encouraging its members, students and schools to become more aware and supportive of environmental issues by issuing them with guidelines to becoming a more sustainable operator. With its guidance, CIDESCO is emphasising that eco-efforts are not about sacrifice, but about…
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Selfridges bans single-use wipes in beauty halls
Selfridges has announced it is removing all single-use, plastic-based beauty wipes from sale and use in its beauty halls. Instead, the store will provide recyclable or re-usable alternatives in a bid to encourage its customers to consume more sustainably. Less than a fifth of Selfridges customers knew that it can…
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