La Roche-Posay

La Roche-Posay doesn't make any ingredient commitments at the brand-level. Its parent company makes some commitments across all owned brands, including to eliminate phthalates and non-RSPO palm oil. Choice of ingredients is a strong determinant of environmental impact, and La Roche-Posay still uses many ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including parabens, microplastics, harmful suncare ingredients, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its products incorporate bio-based ingredients. It carries products that have certifications from Cradle to Cradle, though it doesn't clearly identify these on its site.

La Roche-Posay shares some efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers, but its parent company's most recent update shows slow progress towards its overall goals. La Roche-Posay appears to use primarily plastic packaging, which greatly increases waste and emissions, though some of the plastic is identified as majority-recycled. It's unclear if La Roche-Posay's goal of 100% recycled plastic by 2030 is separate from its parent company's packaging goals.

La Roche-Posay'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. La Roche-Posay has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

La Roche-Posay offers lower-waste bulk refill options for a few products to encourage reuse and reduce waste. However, it doesn't identify any recycling guidelines for its product containers to help reduce landfill waste at end of life. La Roche-Posay doesn't offer any take back programs for its product containers.

La Roche-Posay doesn't frequently release seasonal or limited edition products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory.

Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.

La Roche-Posay has a prominent sustainability page with limited high-level details on its climate strategy. Its parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2024. La Roche-Posay shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis.

La Roche-Posay'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 was 2024. In its most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 8,173,101 tons CO2e.

La Roche-Posay'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.

La Roche-Posay'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.

La Roche-Posay'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.