Babo Botanicals

Babo Botanicals has made ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact, including by avoiding parabens, phthalates, harmful suncare ingredients, and select other other petrochemical-based ingredients. It appears to use only a few ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including some petrochemical-based ingredients, and uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients. Its products incorporate bio-based, organic, and upcycled ingredients. It carries products or ingredients that have certifications from Leaping Bunny, PETA Animal Test-free, EWG Verified, COSMOS Organic, Made Safe, and USDA Organic. Babo Botanicals is a B Corp and a member of the Union for Ethical Biotrade (UEBT).

Babo Botanicals has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in some of its product containers, including by specific efforts to lightweight containers and transition to alternate materials. It has made efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers, and many of its containers are 100% recycled plastic. It does still use virgin plastic for other types of containers though, such as the squeeze tubes and refill pouches. It uses eco-friendly materials in its product containers, including ones that are recyclable and/or FSC-certified. Its parent company, Laboratoires Expanscience S.A., is working to reduce shipping emissions overall by shifting away from air freight.

Babo Botanicals' parent company, Laboratoires Expanscience S.A., shares information on its overall energy strategy. It uses some renewable energy to power its production sites, but it's unclear how much of its supply chain this covers. It doesn't share information on renewables use or energy efficiency in its corporate offices or other facilities. Laboratoires Expanscience S.A. has targets for expanding its use of renewable energy to 100% by 2025. It's unclear if it's on track for this goal. Babo Botanicals implements water conservation measures in production, including sourcing from facilities with closed-loop systems. Babo Botanicals has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Babo Botanicals utilizes alternative models for some products to avert waste, including promoting refills and offering reusable containers, and offering waterless formats with ephemeral packaging. It doesn't offer any take back programs for its product containers. It offers bulk sizes for some products, which may help reduce packaging waste.

Babo Botanicals doesn't frequently release seasonal or limited edition products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory.

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Babo Botanicals has a prominent sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy. Its parent company, Laboratoires Expanscience S.A., publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2023. Babo Botanicals shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis. Its overall ingredients page is misleading as it only lists select ingredients.

Laboratoires Expanscience S.A., Babo Botanicals' parent company, measures its emissions and shares its overall CO2e number annually, but doesn't share its process or amount per scope. The last reporting period was 2023. In its most recent update, its estimated total emissions footprint was 62,628 tons CO2e.

Laboratoires Expanscience S.A., Babo Botanicals' parent company, has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the short-term (1-5 years), medium-term (5-10 years), and long-term (10+ years). It reports on its emissions annually, but wasn't on track in its 2023 update, and it makes progress tracking slightly difficult. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.

Babo Botanicals publishes information about its supply chain partners, disclosing their geographic locations and a few supplier names. It doesn't publicly share a supplier code of conduct, but its parent company, Laboratoires Expanscience S.A., does disclose other policy which ensures the right to collective bargaining, prohibits forced labor, and prohibits child labor. Laboratoires Expanscience S.A. doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks. It has labor certifications within its supply chain, including Ecovadis Platinum, Fair for Life, and FairWild.

Babo Botanicals' parent company, Laboratoires Expanscience S.A., doesn't openly disclose its climate-obstructive trade association memberships. It's a member of 1 large climate-obstructive trade associations: Personal Care Products Council. It isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It doesn't employ any state lobbyists. Laboratoires Expanscience S.A. didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.