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Theresa Yee
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Sustainable Packaging: Brand Innovations & Key Trends 2024 Part 2 - Packaging Disappearance

Our annual packaging innovations trend report highlights the most innovative and interesting sustainable beauty packaging design concepts and initiatives launched in the last 12 months from niche to mass and luxury brands that have caught our attention. Part 2 of this series focuses on packaging that has been designed to


Theresa Yee
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Sustainable Packaging: Brand Innovations & Key Trends 2024 Part 1 - Eco Anxiety/Eco-Boredom

Our annual packaging innovations trend report highlights the most innovative and interesting sustainable beauty packaging design concepts and initiatives launched in the last 12 months from niche to mass and luxury brands that have caught our attention. Our Sustainable Packaging Design Innovations & Key Trends 2024 report is split into


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Eva Lagarde
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Latest sustainable packaging innovations at Luxepack édition spéciale 22

Some would argue that there was not a lot to find, but on a closer look we seemed to have identified interesting innovations. OK... Not groundbreaking! But if you put your creative glasses on, one could agree that it was a great millésime. Leather made from seaweed From the touch


Eva Lagarde
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Do we need another one

Do you think innovation is slowing down? It doesn’t seem like it with all of the new brands, and new ideas coming into the market. I also witness a great deal of innovations coming from the supply side with new materials for packaging or ingredients from the biotech for


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainable Beauty - a definition

This is a definition of what we think is  to be considered when thinking about sustainability. We hope this might give you a framework. This definition is meant to evolve too. UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS re/sources wants you and your brand to make actionable and impactful choices that


Eva Lagarde
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I innovate, you innovate, we innovate in sustainable beauty

Last week at Cosmoprof in Bologna, we had the opportunity to meet some friends and beauty the industry. What TRENDS and INNOVATIONS did we identify at the show: * Packaging suppliers trends: new materials and new formats especially with the refillable aspect of beauty, and solid formulas… more in the next


Eva Lagarde
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What should you say to consumers about sustainability?

How should you go about sustainability? Many words have lost their meaning. Including sustainability. It’s so overused now that it’s not clear anymore what it means. It’s a bit like clean beauty. It carried meaning when it’s started a few years back, but now it is


Eva Lagarde
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100% Natural in cosmetics is not always better. it's all relative

Like zero plastic, 100% natural is not necessarily realistic and better for the environment. I used to think that plastic was the problem, but actually waste and microplastic is the issue. We need to learn to design for recyclability and for the planet. (we touch on that in the Sustainable


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainable Packaging - a definition

This is a definition of what we think is  to be considered when thinking about sustainability. We hope this might give you a framework. This definition is meant to evolve too. UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS re/sources wants you and your brand to make actionable and impactful choices that


Eva Lagarde
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Packaging in the early 20th century

What can we learn from the past? This brief historical overview of the evolution of beauty packaging has been created in collaboration with the Musée International de la Parfumerie (MIP) and Anne de Thoisy-Dallem. If you want to learn more about beauty, perfumery you could always plan a visit in


Eva Lagarde
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Packaging in the 19th century

What can we learn from the past? This brief historical overview of the evolution of beauty packaging has been created in collaboration with the Musée International de la Parfumerie (MIP) and Collector, Anne the Thoisy-Dallem. If you want to learn more about beauty, perfumery you could always plan a visit


Eva Lagarde
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Packaging in the 18th century

what can we learn from the past? This brief historical overview of the evolution of beauty packaging has been created in collaboration with the Musée International de la Parfumerie (MIP) and collector Anne de Thoisy-Dallem. If you want to learn more about beauty, perfumery you could always plan a visit


Eva Lagarde
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Ancient Times - Packaging history

what can we learn from the past? This brief historical overview of the evolution of beauty packaging has been created in collaboration with the Musée International de la Parfumerie (MIP) and collector Anne de Thoisy-Dallem. If you want to learn more about beauty, perfumery you could always plan a visit


Eva Lagarde
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Five sustainable beauty packaging trends - 2022

As consumers are growing their expectations in terms of sustainability, it is increasingly difficult for brands to know how to address this issue where packaging is concerned. Should you move to a full aluminium range, or promote zero waste, use 100% PCR materials, explore new innovative materials. There is no