Farmacy Beauty

Farmacy Beauty has made ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact, including by avoiding parabens, phthalates, other petrochemical-based ingredients, and microplastics. While it has made commitments, it still use some ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its products incorporate uncertified organic ingredients. It carries products that have certifications from Leaping Bunny.

Farmacy Beauty hasn't made any efforts to concentrate its products or minimize its containers, which increases shipping emissions and packaging volumes. It's parent company, P&G, has made efforts to minimize the volume of material used in its secondary or tertiary shipping packaging. It uses primarily plastic containers that are made of vigin and PCR origin. The brand also uses glass and recyclable materials including FSC-certifed paper cartons. Its shipping packaging includes materials that are recyclable.

Farmacy Beauty's parent company, P&G, shares information on its overall energy strategy but doesn't provide details at the brand-level. It uses a majority of renewable energy to power its production sites and corporate offices, and is targeting 100% renewable energy by 2030, for which it's on track. It implements energy efficiency measures in its production sites, but doesn't provide many specifics or detail if this extends to its corporate offices. It has water conservation initiatives in its production focused on water restoration and water positivity. Farmacy Beauty has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Farmacy Beauty utilizes alternative models for some products to avert waste, including partnering with TerraCycle to collect and recycle empty bottles.

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

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Farmacy Beauty has a prominent sustainability page with comprehensive details on its climate strategy. P&G, its parent company, publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2023. Farmacy Beauty shares a complete list of ingredients used in products, on a per product basis.

Farmacy Beauty's parent company, P&G, 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 identifies its top driver of emissions. The last reporting period was 2024, but in its 2023 update, its estimated emissions footprint was 187,883,256 tons CO2e.

Farmacy Beauty's parent company, P&G, has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term (5-10 years). It has reported on its progress within the past year, and is on track for its scope 1 + 2 targets but not its scope 3 target. Its net zero commitment was recently removed by SBTi for not meeting the deadline to provide science-based targets. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.

Farmacy Beauty's parent company, P&G, doesn't publish information about its supply chain partners. It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor, prohibits child labor, and includes environmental clauses. Its code of conduct doesn't disallow unauthorized subcontracting, ensure the right to collective bargaining where not allowed by law, ensure a living wage, or establish grievance mechanisms. P&G has a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners, which can mitigate human and environmental risks.

Farmacy Beauty's parent company, P&G, discloses all of its trade association memberships, including those that are climate-obstructive. P&G is a member of 4 large climate-obstructive trade associations: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Personal Care Products Council, and American Chemistry Council. It isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. P&G employs state lobbyists with few fossil fuel aligned clients. P&G donated $500k-1M to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024. Of this amount, 12.99% more was given to obstructive candidates or PACs than to pro-climate ones.