Davines

Davines has made a few ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact, including by avoiding parabens, phthalates, and uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients. While it has made commitments, it still uses some ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including microplastics and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its products incorporate bio-based and/or biodegradable and organic ingredients. Davines is a B Corp.

Davines has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in some of its product containers, including by offering solid formats. It has made efforts to minimize the volume of material used in its packaging, and partners with Plastic Bank to be 'Plastic Net Zero'. It has also made efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers, with under a quarter of their packaging being virgin petro plastic. It uses 65% recycled materials overall, and also uses bioplastics, recyclable, recycled, and FSC-certified materials.

Davines shares information on its energy strategy. It uses a majority of renewable energy to power its production sites and corporate offices. Davines has nonspecific targets for expanding its use of renewable energy. It implements energy efficiency measures in its corporate offices, and has water conservation measures, including water reduction in cleaning cycles. Davines has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Davines utilizes alternative models for some products to avert waste, including promoting refills, 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.

Davines doesn't frequently release seasonal or new products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory. It has internal landfill-avoidance strategies that achieve close to 100% waste recovery.

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Davines has a prominent sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy. It publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2023. Davines shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, overall and on a per product basis.

Davines internally measures and publicly reports its company-level emissions, including a breakdown by scope. It also identifies its top drivers of emissions and conducts many product-level LCAs. Its last reporting period was 2023. In its most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 35,290 tons CO2e.

Davines has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term (5-10 years), long-term (10+ years). It set these targets in 2022 and hasn't yet provided a clear progress update. The brand offsets emissions from its direct operations in packaging, production, and offices.

Davines publishes limited information about its supply chain partners It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor, prohibits child labor, includes environmental clauses. Its code of conduct doesn't restrict unauthorized subcontracting, ensure the right to collective bargaining, ensure a living wage, or establish grievance mechanisms. Davines doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks.

Commons wasn't able to find evidence of any trade association memberships or any relevant policy for this brand. Davines isn't a member of any key advocacy organizations that are blocking climate policy. It isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It doesn't employ any state lobbyists. Davines didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.