Love Beauty and Planet

Love Beauty and Planet doesn't make any explicit ingredient commitments at the brand-level. Its parent company makes a few commitments across all owned brands, specifically on RSPO-certified palm oil. Choice of ingredients is a strong determinant of environmental impact. Love Beauty and Planet uses some petrochemical-based ingredients ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate. Its products incorporate biodegradable ingredients. It carries products that have certifications from PETA Animal Test-free.

Love Beauty and Planet doesn't discuss its packaging materials at the brand-level at all. Its parent company, Unilever, has some initiatives to increase recycled plastic, but it's unclear what applies to this brand. Packaging is a large portion of the industry's emissions and waste footprint.

Love Beauty and Planet's parent company, Unilever, shares information on its overall energy strategy. It uses some renewable energy to power its production sites and corporate offices. Unilever has targets for expanding its use of renewable energy. It implements energy efficiency measures in its production sites and corporate offices. It implements water conservation measures. Love Beauty and Planet has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Love Beauty and Planet utilizes alternative models for some products to avert waste, including offering waterless formats with ephemeral packaging. Commons didn't find evidence that it currently offers any take back programs for its product containers.

Love Beauty and Planet doesn't frequently release seasonal or limited edition products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory.

Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.

Love Beauty and Planet has some pages with sustainability information, but they're hard to find on its website. It doesn't link to its parent company's more thorough resources. Its parent company, Unilever, publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2023. Love Beauty and Planet claims to share a complete list of ingredients used in its products but many were not accessible. We hope for more transparency from brands.

Love Beauty and Planet's parent company, Unilever, 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 110,153,969 tons CO2e.

Love Beauty and Planet's parent company, Unilever, has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term (5-10 years) and long-term (10+ years). It has reported on its progress within the past year, and is on track for some of its targets. Its overall net-zero commitment was removed by SBTi due to failure to meet deadlines. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.

Love Beauty and Planet's parent company, Unilever, publishes information about its supply chain partners, disclosing their geographic locations. It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which ensures the right to collective bargaining, prohibits forced labor, establishes grievance mechanisms, prohibits child labor, and includes environmental clauses. Its code of conduct doesn't disallow unauthorized subcontracting or ensures a living wage. Unilever doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks.

Love Beauty and Planet's parent company, Unilever, discloses all of its trade association memberships, including those that are climate-obstructive. It's a member of 1 large climate-obstructive trade associations: Personal Care Products Council. It isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It doesn't employ any state lobbyists. Unilever didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.