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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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Was it a coincidence?

Sometimes we create innovation by mistake. Think about food. ”Tarte Tartin” and “Eton Mess” for instance were both kitchen catastrophes and turned out to be popular recipes replicated ever and ever in households and fancy restaurants. So, where am I getting at? I wondered if in your exploration towards a


Gérald Martines
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3R applied to packaging: RECYCLE

THE 3R APPLIED TO COSMETIC PACKAGING EXAMPLES OF 3R INITIATIVES 3- RECYCLE


Gérald Martines
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3R applied to packaging: REUSE

THE 3R APPLIED TO COSMETIC PACKAGING EXAMPLES OF 3R INITIATIVES 2- RE-USE


Gérald Martines
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3R applied to packaging: REDUCE

THE 3R APPLIED TO COSMETIC PACKAGING EXAMPLES OF 3R INITIATIVES * 1- REDUCE


Gérald Martines
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Sustainable Packaging 3R - intro


Eva Lagarde
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It’s about rights

Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow Today is not just about women’s day, but about RIGHTS, and EQUAL rights. This year’s theme from the United Nations is about “ Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. A recent survey by the UN indicates that “ 80% of people displaced


Eva Lagarde
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Everything about the end of life of your beauty products

When it comes to waste, there is a lot of misinformation. Should you remove the cap of your packaging? Should you leave it on? Should you separate all the different parts? We often get asked a lot of questions about product development and recycling. Since beauty products can be very


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainability beauty and regulations/restrictions for packaging

The noose is tightening around beauty brands, and more precise decisions must be made in terms of product development and marketing claims. In the UK, from April 2022, all plastic packaging that does not contain 30% of PCR content will be taxed £200 per tonne. The tax applies to businesses


Eva Lagarde
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Five misconceptions about sustainability in beauty

Developing a more sustainable beauty product can be more challenging than you think, and I see a lot of misconceived ideas in the market. - Glass or Aluminium are better than plastic - 100% PCR material is easy to achieve - Carbon positive or negative is a great way to


Eva Lagarde
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Do you need constraints to be creative in sustainability for beauty

The things I hear most about sustainability is that it's costly, complex, and brands will lose their competitive edge if they don’t engage in current trends. But jumping on the bandwagon can have dire consequences. What if you develop or build a solution that seems the most


Eva Lagarde
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Keeping a competitive edge in sustainability and beauty?

As a marketing professional you want to make your packaging claims clearer, upgrade your portfolio, without losing your competitive edge? You have already started and some solutions are working better than others, and you still can’t understand why a 100% PCR packaging is not achievable? Talking to a Beauty


Eva Lagarde
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what to wish for in 2022?

Happy New Year, all our best wishes for 2022.We wish you happiness, freedom and the fulfilment of long awaited dreams! We hope you didn’t make too many resolutions and avoided adding burden onto your shoulders. We’ve been through two tough years, so here’s to a better