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Acure

High-quality skincare with a low environmental impact

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Acure's Sustainability Rating:

Fair

Acure is rated Fair because it takes responsibility for its emissions, but still has room to improve its ingredients and packaging.

Acure is climate neutral certified through Change Climate and offsets its full value chain emissions. It has committed to avoiding select ingredients that pose a threat to the climate, including parabens, and a few other petrochemical-based ingredients.

However, while it avoids select ingredients, Acure still uses some that pose a significant threat to the climate, including microplastics, reef-harming sun care ingredients, other petrochemical-based ingredients, and uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients. Acure appears to rely on plastic packaging, of unknown recycled content, but also uses recyclable, FSC-certified, or at-home-compostable packaging materials. It doesn't utilize any alternative models or packaging minimization strategies to reduce its waste and emissions footprint.


  • Ingredients

    Acure has made ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact, including by avoiding parabens, and select other petrochemical-based ingredients. While it has made commitments, it appears to still use some ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including microplastics, reef-harming sun care ingredients, other petrochemical-based ingredients, and uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients It can be very difficult to eliminate these entirely, especially for small brands with limited resources, but we hope to see improvements in the future. Its products incorporate organic ingredients. Acure doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications, but it states it's 100% vegan and cruelty-free.


  • Containers & Packaging

    Acure hasn't made any efforts to concentrate its products or minimize its containers, which increases shipping emissions and packaging volumes. It uses eco-friendly materials in its product containers, including ones that are recycled, recyclable, FSC-certified, or at-home compostable.


  • Energy & Water Use

    Acure doesn't share information on its energy strategy. Acure doesn't provide information on any water conservation strategies. Acure has an unknown production span.


  • Refill & Reuse

    Acure doesn't offer any bulk sizes or utilize any alternative models or methods to avert waste.


  • Slow Cleaning

    Acure doesn't frequently release seasonal or new products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory.


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Acure has a sustainability page with comprehensive details on its climate strategy, but this page is hard to find on its website. Acure shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis.


  • Emissions Tracking

    Acure 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. The last reporting period was 2023. In its most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 8,485 tons CO2e.


  • Targets & Offsets

    Commons couldn't find emissions reduction targets for this brand, though it has some small-scale interim reduction goals. Acure became certified climate neutral by Change Climate Project in 2024. It offsets its full value chain emissions and shares details on the project it supports.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Acure publishes limited information about its supply chain partners, disclosing that its manufacturers are in the USA. It doesn't publicly share a supplier code of conduct. Acure doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks.


  • Advocacy

    Commons wasn't able to find evidence of any trade association memberships or any relevant policy for this brand. Acure isn't a member of any key advocacy organizations that are blocking climate policy, but it also 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.

Our ratings are based on a scale from 1 (harmful) to 5 (best). How we rate →

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https://acure.com/

https://acure.com/pages/about-us

https://explore.changeclimate.org/brand/acure

https://acure.com/pages/climate-neutral-certified

https://fminus.org/lobbyists/

https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/

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Sustainability information was last updated in May 2025.

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