Eucerin

Eucerin has committed to avoiding microplastics, harmful suncare ingredients, and uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients. Its parent company, Beiersdorf, has also committed to avoiding certain ingredients to lower its environmental impact. However, Eucerin still uses many ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including parabens, microplastics, harmful suncare ingredients, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Eucerin doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications.

Eucerin has made efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers, though it still uses a proportion of it in its packaging. It uses environmentally-mindful materials in its product containers, including ones that are recyclable, and its shipping packaging includes materials that are recyclable and FSC-certified. It has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in some of its product containers and shipping materials by avoiding excessive materials.

Eucerin shares information on its energy strategy. It uses all renewable electricity to power its own production sites and corporate offices. The brand also implements energy efficiency measures in its own production sites and corporate offices. Its parent company, Beiersdorf, has general goals for expanding its use of renewable energy in its supply chain. Beiersdorf also implements water conservation measures, including water reduction targets, Closed Circuit Reverse Osmosis (CCRO) tech, and water reuse. Eucerin has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Eucerin offers refills for 1 product, but puts them in packaging that is unidentified or otherwise difficult to dispose of, which adds to landfill waste. 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.

It's unclear if this brand releases new items seasonally or otherwise frequently, which can create excess waste.

Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.

Eucerin has a prominent sustainability page with comprehensive details on its climate strategy. Its parent company publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2024. Eucerin shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products on an ingredient page and on individual product pages.

Eucerin's parent company, Beiersdorf, 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, though it only reports on select scope 3 categories. The last reporting period was 2023. In this most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 2,195,426 tons CO2e.

Eucerin's parent company, Beiersdorf, has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term (5-10 years) and long-term (10+ years). It has reported on its progress within the past year, and is on track for all of its medium-term targets. Commons couldn't verify that this brand offsets any emissions, but Beiersdorf has shared plans to use carbon removal solutions, potentially in the future.

Eucerin's parent company, Beiersdorf, doesn't publish information about its supply chain partners. It traces some of its supply chain, achieving almost 100% palm oil traceability. It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor, prohibits child labor, ensures the right to collective bargaining, and includes environmental clauses. Its code of conduct doesn't disallow unauthorized subcontracting, ensure a living wage, or establish grievance mechanisms. Beiersdorf doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners, though it does annual assessments and followup audits for higher risk partners.

Eucerin's parent company, Beiersdorf, discloses all of its trade association memberships, including those that are climate-obstructive. It's a member of 1 large climate-obstructive trade associations: Personal Care Products Council. Beiersdorf isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It doesn't employ any state lobbyists and didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.