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fresh Skincare

Skin creams, facial masks, lip care, bath products

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fresh Skincare's Sustainability Rating

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  • Ingredients

    Fresh Skincare has committed to avoid certain ingredients to lower its environmental impact, including parabens, phthalates and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its parent company LVMH also has some ingredient commitments The brand still uses some ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including other petrochemical-based ingredient and microplastics. Fresh Skincare doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications.


  • Containers & Packaging

    Fresh Skincare hasn't made any efforts to concentrate its products or minimize its containers, which increases shipping emissions and packaging volumes. Its parent company, LVMH, has made efforts to reduce virgin plastic overall, but it's unclear what materials are used for this brand.


  • Energy & Water Use

    Fresh Skincare's parent company, LVMH, shares information on its overall energy strategy. It uses a majority of renewable energy to power its operations, offices, and storefronts. It has targets for expanding its use of renewable energy to 100% by 2026. It implements energy efficiency and water conservation measures. Fresh Skincare has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.


  • Refill & Reuse

    Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offers any alternative models to lower its waste footprint, such as refills or takeback programs. It doesn't provide any guidance to help customers properly recycle or dispose of its products.


  • Slow Consumption

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


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Fresh Skincare has a sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy, but this page is hard to find on its website. Its parent company, LVMH, publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2024. Fresh Skincare shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis.


  • Emissions Tracking

    LVMH, Fresh Skincare's parent company, 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 vertical, and identifies its top driver of emissions. The last reporting period was 2024. In its most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 8,058,318 tons CO2e. This is larger than the annual emissions of many countries.


  • Targets & Offsets

    LVMH, Fresh Skincare's parent company, has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term (5-10 years), long-term (10+ years), short-term (1-5 years). It has reported on its progress within the past year, and is on track for some of its targets, but not its scope 3 targets, which are the largest impact. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    LVMH, the parent company of Fresh Skincare, doesn't publish information about its supply chain partners. It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which disallows unauthorized subcontracting, prohibits child labor, prohibits forced labor, ensures the right to collective bargaining, includes environmental clauses. Its code of conduct doesn't ensure a living wage or establish grievance mechanisms. LVMH doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks. Fresh Skincare traces a portion of its ingredients supply chain.


  • Advocacy

    LVMH, Fresh Skincare's parent company, doesn't openly disclose its climate-obstructive trade association memberships. It's a member of 1 large climate-obstructive trade association: Personal Care Products Council. It isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. 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.

Fresh Skincare has started to improve its products and packaging, but still has room to grow in other areas.

Fresh Skincare has committed to avoiding select ingredients that pose a threat to the climate, including parabens, phthalates, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. However, Commons found that this brand uses some ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including microplastics and other petrochemical-based ingredients.

It doesn't share information on its packaging materials, and it's unclear which of its parent company's initiatives apply. It also doesn't utilize any alternative models or packaging minimization strategies to reduce its waste and emissions footprint.

Its parent company, LVMH, uses a majority of renewable energy in production. It has SBTi-approved reduction targets - some targets are on track, but it's not on track for its largest target. Fresh Skincare claims to trace a portion of its ingredients but doesn't share transparent information on its supply chain.

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https://www.fresh.com/eu/en/ourpromise.html (EU website

https://lvmh-com.cdn.prismic.io/lvmh-com/aF5xp3fc4bHWix6S_LVMH_Commited_to_positive_impact-2024.pdf

https://www.fresh.com/us/sustainability.html

https://lvmh-com.cdn.prismic.io/lvmh-com/aF5xp3fc4bHWix6S_LVMH_Commited_to_positive_impact-2024.pdf https://www.fresh.com/eu/en/oursustainability.html

https://www.fresh.com/us/gifting/the-latest-in-gifting/gift-sets/renew-repeat-set-H00008932.html https://lvmh-com.cdn.prismic.io/lvmh-com/aF5xp3fc4bHWix6S_LVMH_Commited_to_positive_impact-2024.pdf

https://lvmh-com.cdn.prismic.io/lvmh-com/aF5xp3fc4bHWix6S_LVMH_Commited_to_positive_impact-2024.pdf https://www.fresh.com/us/sustainability.html

https://urd.lvmh.com/en/2024#_Toc193734073

https://sciencebasedtargets.org/target-dashboard

https://www.lvmh.com/en/commitment-in-action/a-purchasing-policy-that-lives-up-to-our-commitments

https://www.lvmh.com/en/ethics-and-compliance/lvmh-supplier-code-of-conduct

https://www.lvmh.com/en/ethics-and-compliance/the-responsible-lobbying-charter

https://www.personalcarecouncil.org/join-pcpc/member-companies/

https://fminus.org/lobbyists/

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

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