The Korean skin care brand RIMAN has secured a 20-year Plant Variety Protection (PVP) by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its proprietary Centella asiatica variety, Giant BYoungPool. RIMAN developed the advanced Centella cultivar through years of research, designing larger leaves and higher concentrations of active compounds than the conventional Centella asiatica. This […]
Sol de Janeiro Foundation Makes Biodiversity Commitment
The New York-based beauty brand Sol de Janeiro has opened a charitable foundation that will work to protect natural resources and empower women. The Sol de Janeiro Foundation aims to protect the planet’s “most precious ecosystems” and has already signed US $5.77m in multi-year grants to partners restoring forests, protecting clean water and advancing women’s […]
Grove Collaborative to Measure AI-Related Emissions
The sustainable personal care company Grove Collaborative has launched a new open-source approach to sustainable AI measurement via an expanded measurement partnership with Gravity. It has also made new sustainability commitments while calling on the industry to adopt AI mindfully. The formula, created by Gravity, uses compute time, server power and grid emissions factors to determine […]
Lush Price Hikes in the US
Lush has announced that US customers will have to swallow price hikes as a result of Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports from the UK and Canada. The ethical beauty firm has stated that it does plan to have a factory in the US. It comes after Trump defended his new tariffs, describing them as “medicine” […]
Tariffs Making Weleda Consider US Production
Weleda, the Switzerland-based organic cosmetics company, is considering production in the United States to escape Trump’s tariffs on European products. “We have been working on this for several weeks,” CEO Tina Muller told the German news agency Dpa. According to recent figures, the Arlesheim-based company achieved a turnover of EUR 456 million (USD 493 million) in […]