Garnier

Garnier has made some ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact alongside its parent company's commitments, which together include avoiding parabens, phthalates, microplastics, other petrochemical-based ingredients, and uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients. However, Garnier still uses many ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including harmful suncare ingredients, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its products incorporate bio-based and/or biodegradable ingredients. It carries products that have certifications from Leaping Bunny, and 99% of its ingredients are vegan.

Garnier shares some efforts to lightweight its packaging and reduce virgin plastic in its product containers. It claims that some of its bottles are majority-recycled plastic, and Garnier also offers concentrated formats for some products, which helps reduce shipping emissions and packaging waste. Garnier's parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, has a goal of 100% recycled plastic by 2030, though its most recent update shows slow progress and it's unclear what applies to Garnier.

Garnier's parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, shares information on its overall energy strategy. It uses a majority of renewable energy to power its production sites and corporate offices, and has targets for expanding its use of renewable energy to 100% by 2025. L'Oreal Groupe implements energy efficiency measures in its production sites and corporate offices. It implements water conservation measures, including working to increase its water recycling and wastewater quality. Garnier has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Garnier utilizes alternative models for some products to avert waste, including by offering waterless formats with ephemeral packaging. It appears to have a takeback partnership with Terracycle but doesn't promote it anywhere on its site, which greatly limits the program's reach and efficacy. It offers bulk sizes for some products, which may help reduce packaging waste.

Garnier offers seasonal products or frequent releases, which can encourage overconsumption and production of excess inventory.

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Garnier has a prominent sustainability page with limited high-level details on its climate strategy. It previously published its own sustainability report, but hasn't released one since 2022. Its parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. L'Oreal Groupe's last annual report was published in 2024. Garnier shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis.

Garnier previously reported emissions in its brand-level sustainability report, but it's unclear if its numbers were specific to Garnier or a value for L'Oreal Groupe as a whole. Garnier's parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, internally measures and publicly reports its company-level emissions in partnership with, or with auditing from, a third party. It includes a breakdown by scope and shares select product-level LCAs. The last reporting period for L'Oreal Groupe was 2024 and in this most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 8,173,101 tons CO2e.

Garnier's parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term (5-10 years), long-term (10+ years). It has reported on its progress within the past year, and is on track for some of its targets, but is far off track for its scope 3 target. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.

Garnier's parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, publishes limited information about its supply chain partners and is working on tracing some of its supply chain. L'Oreal Groupe publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor, prohibits child labor, establishes grievance mechanisms, and disallows unauthorized subcontracting. Its code of conduct doesn't ensure the right to collective bargaining where not allowed by law, ensure a living wage, or include environmental clauses. It has a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners, which can mitigate human and environmental risks.

Garnier's parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, doesn't openly disclose its climate-obstructive trade association memberships. L'Oreal Groupe is member of 1 large climate-obstructive trade association: Personal Care Products Council, and belongs to some pro-climate advocacy orgs, including: Ceres. It employs state lobbyists with few fossil fuel aligned clients. It didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.