Now, we are in the 2nd or 3rd wave of COVID-19 pandemic. From the beginning of 2020, we have been facing how we can overcome with COVID-19. Then, we found out our sense of value has changed. Staying a home, remote working, wearing a mask, sanitizing hands, do you feel that you change your life style? Our life is changed. We noticed we need to be more careful or more conscious what we use, what is the origin. We are getting to place our value with safety, transparency, and sustainability. Looking at the cosmetic market, consumer’s demand has shifted to source a safe, transparent and sustainable product. Because we noticed all of us need to take care of planet. Then, what is the safe, transparent and sustainable cosmetic? How can we source it?
How Do You Source Safe, Transparent and Sustainable Cosmetics?
In a view of consumer, safe, transparent and sustainable cosmetic means that the cosmetic with reliable and natural ingredient. Furthermore, it may be with the ingredients which contribute to a local farmer and local business. Also, it is better if they can buy a cosmetic which is made in environmentally friendly factory.
Sustainability plays a big role in beauty business. As a supplier or manufacture, when we make a cosmetic, we need to pay attention for the origin of ingredient and material, environment of factory, efficacy evaluation of ingredient.
Here, we can see a matching of consumer demand and supplier’s duty. It looks like Covid-19 accelerates where we should go unexpectedly.
What Is Sustainable Ingredient for Cosmetics?
There are many angles when we make a sustainable cosmetic. Focusing on an ingredient, we want to think what a sustainable ingredient is. The following is the key point we think it is sustainable ingredient.
- Natural
Material for ingredient brings up with natural method without pesticides
- Traceable
From material to be ingredient, we can trace where comes from, who makes it and how to make it
- Upcycling
Ingredient made of byproduct and no waste to make it
- Contribution to a local development
Cultivating or harvesting, bringing up the material for ingredient supports a local business
- Proven efficacy
It has an efficacy to contribute to the beauty or health
Our Sustainable Ingredient
We also try to develop a sustainable ingredient, which is snow rose extract. We have a partnership with the rose farm in Hokkaido. Hokkaido is located in Northern Japan, with a plenty of nature. We are bringing up the rose, cultivating, harvesting without pesticide. We have developed the rose extract from the distillation residue which is obtained from process of making the rose water. In partnership with a university, the efficacy is proven. As a manufacture of cosmetic, we are trying to present a sustainable product from the farm to production.
Please contact with us if you need to produce cosmetics with sustainable ingredients