Lancome

Lancome doesn't make any ingredient commitments at the brand-level. Its parent company makes some commitments across all owned brands, but it's unclear what applies to this brand. Choice of ingredients is a strong determinant of environmental impact, and Lancome still uses many ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including parabens, microplastics, cyclic silicones, other petrochemical-based ingredients, and uncertified mica. Its products incorporate bio-based and/or biodegradable ingredients. Lancome doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications.

Lancome has made efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers, but still uses an unknown portion of this high-emissions material. It uses some environmentally-mindful materials in its product containers, including ones that are recycled It has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in some of its product containers, including efforts to avoid excessive materials. Its parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, has some initiatives to reduce shipping emissions and packaging volumes, but it's unclear what applies to this brand.

Lancome'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. Lancome has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Lancome offers a refillery model for its perfumes, which helps lower its waste footprint. Its takeback partnership with Terracycle, Empty Bottle Campaign, allows customers to recycle hard to recycle product containers. It provides recycling and/or disposal guidance for most of its products.

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

Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.

Lancome has a prominent sustainability page with comprehensive 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. Its parent company also publishes detailed annual reports. Lancome shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products on a per product basis.

Lancome'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.

Lancome'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 very off track for its scope 3 target. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.

Lancome'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.

Lancome'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.