The Body Shop Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

HARD-WORKING, NATURAL INGREDIENTS

Our products are rooted in hard-working, natural ingredients for hard-working, beautiful bodies. We search all over the planet for the best ingredients to help you scrub up your body with lashings of love. Discover more about our Community Fair Trade programme, which sources ingredients from thousands of producers and artisans and benefits communities worldwide, as well as an extensive ingredient glossary and a breakdown of exactly what we mean by natural and natural origin ingredients.

SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES

Our pioneering Community Fair Trade programme has been going strong since 1987. It’s our way of sourcing ethical, high-quality ingredients and accessories from around the world, while trading fairly with suppliers. This helps our Community Fair Trade partners gain market access and invest in social and environmental projects that benefit their communities, and it helps us fill our products with the good stuff. Discover how this programme drives real change in the world and helps us be a force for good.

CHAMPIONING SUSTAINABILITY

We’re serious about sustainability. We want to inspire change in the way businesses behave and think about how their actions affect people and the planet. Championing sustainability is a core value of The Body Shop, whether that’s through recycling and refill initiatives, changing the way we package our products or ensuring we source ingredients as sustainably as possible. Discover how we’re always striving towards greater sustainability here.

VEGETARIAN & VEGAN FRIENDLY

At The Body Shop, we’ve been fighting animal testing since day one. We champion cruelty-free ingredients and we’re passionate about creating vegetarian products that have never, and will never be tested on animals. We want to cause minimal harm to the planet when we make our products. These days, around half our products are also vegan, and we’re beginning to phase out some animal-derived ingredients in our products. Discover exactly what we mean by vegetarian and vegan products here.

OUR LONG-TERM GOALS FOR CREATING SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING.

We’re committed to becoming the most sustainable business we can be, and we’re always striving to reduce our impact on the planet. It makes sense that we constantly review our product packaging and working to long-term sustainability goals.

RETHINKING PLASTIC

We’re a B Corp™, and that means the world to us. We’re one of 3,000 businesses worldwide to have the highest social and environmental standards for people and the planet, and we take that very seriously. Our focus is on using fewer plastic materials where possible; using more plant-based and recycled plastic (rather than oil-based plastics) and helping people around the world to reuse, repurpose and recycle. In 2019, we reintroduced our pioneering refill scheme, a recycling programme and removed 21 tonnes of plastic from our Christmas gifts. From reducing, refilling and recycling, we’re changing the way we think about plastic.

THE FUTURE OF OUR PACKAGING

We want to focus on the long-term, and make changes that will last – like tackling the global plastics crisis and developing sustainable packaging options. We have a long way to go, but we’re always looking to the future with two clear goals: 1. All product packaging will be compostable, refillable or returnable for repurposing. 2. All  refillable or returnable product packaging will be made from renewable and recycled input materials.

COMMUNITY FAIR TRADE RECYCLED PLASTIC

We're committed to tackling the plastics crisis differently. We want to find a use for the plastic that already exists in the world. By using Community Fair Trade recycled plastic from India, where almost a third of waste goes uncollected, we’re fighting for people and the planet by supporting plastic ‘waste pickers’ with access to more sanitary working conditions, a fair price and the respect and recognition they deserve.

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