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Eco friendly cosmetic packaging manufacturers

Eco friendly cosmetic packaging manufacturers

After the product itself, your packaging is one of the most important factors to pay attention to, since it is the first thing the customer notices when choosing between your product and everyone else’s. Your brand, your values, your mission and especially what you stand for must be conveyed within those first few seconds where the consumer glances at your product.

Having eco-friendly packaging sends a message not only to the consumer, which are increasingly concerned with the environment, but also to the overall industry about how compromised you are with sustainability.

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Consumer sentiment is driving awareness to waste and the environment. As a result, many manufacturers are seeing the benefits of introducing sustainable packaging and getting their products to be regarded as environmentally responsible.


With that said, below you’ll find a list of environmentally-conscious manufacturers to get your product packaging to the next level:

A Packaging Group
A packaging Group was founded by Helga Arminak, a veteran in the cosmetic and beauty packaging industry with more than 25 years of experience. With factories in the US and Asia, APG offers quality products at unrivaled production speed, with costs below market standard. APG has designed and patented fully recyclable plastic solutions and offers up to 100% PCR plastic packaging. As a result of it’s long term presence overseas APG has partnerships and investments in multiple Asian manufacturers.

Axiology
This is a lip product company that offers lipsticks and lip crayons. The brand uses only ten ingredients in their formulas, including organic essential oils such as castor, avocado, and grapeseed. Axiology’s sustainable packaging policy directly helps to reduce the amount of paper waste that ends up in beaches in Bali. The recycled product makes boxes that package their organic lipsticks.

Burt’s Bees
Burt’s Bees is a skincare, makeup, and hair product manufacturer. The company strives to make cosmetics that are at least 95 percent natural and avoids toxic chemicals such as phthalates and petrolatum in their formulations. Burt’s Bees is making efforts towards eco friendly product packaging by using paper, aluminum, steel, and glass in place of plastics. For labeling, the brand uses vegetable ink and utilizes stickers to reduce the amount of material used.

Lush
Lush has taken several steps towards sustainable packaging, including manufacturing shampoo bars in an effort to eliminate the need for plastic bottles used to package the liquid variety. For their packaging, they utilize 90 percent recyclable materials. The brand also encourages customers to return some of their containers for recycling by offering a free fresh face mask in exchange.

Ăether Beauty
Ăether Beauty is one of the sustainable packaging brands which tries to minimize plastic pollution in the environment while also supporting environmental charities. When making their packaging, they avoid mixing plastics and metals, a common practice that makes it difficult to recycle plastic. They also steer clear of hard plastics, which may pose the same challenge.

Aveda
Aveda is a personal care brand that offers natural hair and scalp care products. The manufacturer has a variety of products to cater to different needs, such as dry hair and hair loss. Aveda has put a lot of effort in ensuring that more than 85 percent of their jars and bottles are made using 100 percent post-consumer recycled materials.

Bleach London
This is a vegan hair color product manufacturer that offers bleaches, toners, shampoos, and conditioners. Bleach London’s eco friendly packaging cosmetics are meant to contribute to the efforts of keeping the ocean free of plastic waste.

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