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CeraVe

Moisture-first skincare formulated with peptides, hyaluronic acid, and three essential ceramides

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CeraVe's Sustainability Rating:

Fair

[Beta Review] CeraVe is rated Fair - it has a lack of reporting and initiatives at the brand-level, but its parent company has made progress overall. CeraVe offers some refills to reduce its waste and emissions footprint. It doesn't report on its packaging materials, but its parent company has made efforts to reduce packaging plastic use and waste across all owned brands. CeraVe doesn't make any brand-level commitments related to its ingredients. Its parent company makes some commitments across all owned brands, including to avoid phthalates, microplastics, and select other petrochemical-based ingredients. However, CeraVe still uses many ingredients that pose a threat to the environment, including parabens. Its parent company uses nearly 100% renewable energy in its production, reports on its emissions measurement, and has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets.

CeraVe is owned by L'Oreal Groupe


  • Ingredients

    CeraVe doesn't make any ingredient commitments at the brand-level. Its parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, makes some commitments across all owned brands, including to avoid or reduce phthalates, uncertified palm oil, microplastics, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. However, CeraVe still uses many ingredients that pose a signficant threat to the climate, including parabens and other petrochemical-based ingredients. CeraVe's products incorporate bio-based and/or biodegradable ingredients, its parent company is working to increase the proportion of biobased ingredients across all owned brands by 2030. CeraVe carries products that have certifications from: Cradle to Cradle, Hawaii Compliant Sunscreen.


  • Containers & Packaging

    CeraVe doesn't share any information about its packaging materials at a brand-level. Its parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in product containers across all owned brands. L'Oreal Groupe has made efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers and is on track for its goal of 50% recycled and biobased plastics by 2025. It uses eco-friendly materials in its packaging, including ones that are recyclable or FSC-certified.


  • Energy & Water Use

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


  • Refill & Reuse

    CeraVe utilizes alternative models for some products to avert waste, including offering refills. It doesn't offer any take back programs for its product containers. It offers bulk sizes for some products, which may help reduce packaging waste.


  • Slow Cleaning

    CeraVe offers an evergreen collection, which helps prevent production of excess inventory.


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    CeraVe doesn't appear to have a sustainability page or centralized source of relevant information, and it doesn't link to its parent company's sustainability page. Its parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2023. CeraVe shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis.


  • Emissions Tracking

    CeraVe'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 2023. In its most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 8,173,101 tons CO2e.


  • Targets & Offsets

    CeraVe'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.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    CeraVe'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.


  • Advocacy

    CeraVe'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.

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

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