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Skims

Shapewear, loungewear, and undergarments designed to fit a wide range of body types

Skims
Skims' Sustainability Rating:

Harmful

We avoid Skims because its sustainability reporting is incomplete or nonexistent. Skims is part of the fast fashion industry, which exploits labor and natural resources while incentivizing overconsumption.

Skims is still reliant on high emissions materials, including nylon, spandex, cotton, modal, polyamide, and lycra. Commons couldn't find any stated plans to increase low emissions materials and/or decrease synthetic materials. The brand has no strategic programs or services for customers to help keep its products out of landfills.

Skims doesn't report on its energy use, packaging materials, or emissions footprint and any reduction plans. We look for more accountability and transparency from large brands.


  • Raw Materials

    Commons couldn't find information on the overall proportion of materials this brand uses. We assume larger brands are still dependent on high emissions materials. Skims appears to heavily rely on high emissions and/or synthetic materials, such as nylon, spandex, and lycra, while also using a small amount of recycled synthetics. Commons couldn't find any stated plans to increase low emissions materials and/or decrease synthetic materials. Skims doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications.


  • Energy Use & Production

    Skims doesn't share information on its energy strategy. Skims sources and manufactures its materials globally, which is standard practice in the textile industry.


  • Packaging & Distribution

    Skims doesn't appear to have made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in its packaging. Commons couldn't find any brand-reported information on this brand's packaging materials. We assume larger brands still have the standard practice of plastic packaging and excess waste.


  • Repair & Care

    Skims doesn't offer repair services or support. Skims doesn't offer a warranty. It gives detailed and environmentally conscious care instructions for its products.


  • Take Back Programs

    Skims does not offer a take back program to customers to help keep its products out of landfill. It appears to work with Supercircle to help reduce its internal production waste.


  • Slow Fashion

    Skims is a fast fashion brand which continually overproduces products, incentivizes overconsumption, and creates excess waste.


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Skims has a sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy, but this page is hard to find on its website. Despite being a larger company with increased influence, Skims doesn't publish an annual sustainability report, which signals a lack of transparency and accountability.


  • Emissions Tracking

    Skims states that it measures its emissions via Watershed, but doesn't share its process or findings.


  • Targets & Offsets

    Commons couldn't find emissions reduction targets for this brand beyond a statement that the brand is working to reduce its emissions. Larger brands have an outsized impact and responsibility to reduce their emissions. The brand commited to purchase $1B of permanent carbon removal by 2030 via Frontier, though it hasn't provided an update.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Skims publishes information about its supply chain partners, disclosing their names and locations across Tier 1 (final production manufacturing). It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor, prohibits child labor, includes environmental clauses, disallows unauthorized subcontracting, ensures the right to collective bargaining, and pushes for paying living wages. Its code of conduct doesn't establish grievance mechanisms. Skims has a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners, which can mitigate human and environmental risks.

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

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https://www.cfobrew.com/stories/2024/01/11/how-skims-measures-carbon-emissions#

https://skims.com/products/skims-ultimate-nipple-push-up-bra-clay

https://skims.com/pages/environmental-and-social-partnerships

https://skims.com

https://skims.com/pages/ca-transparency-act https://skims.com/pages/environmental-and-social-partnerships https://skims.com/pages/faqs

https://skims.com/pages/social-responsibility-policy https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12i0diFvY_mar3ApC8TH_7dPql2R8yHGUBJL62m4G67U/edit?gid=715514914#gid=715514914

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12i0diFvY_mar3ApC8TH_7dPql2R8yHGUBJL62m4G67U/edit?gid=715514914#gid=715514914

https://skims.com/pages/code-of-conduct

https://skims.com/pages/ca-transparency-act

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Sustainability information was last updated in July 2025.

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