How does the 'Eco Beauty Score' work?

The past month of February, 'Quantis' announced that it would be the company commissioned of the preparation of the 'Echo Beauty Score Consortium'. This new tool is fruit, mainly, of 'Cosmetics Europe' with the collaboration with big marks for to design a tool that pretends to measure the environmental impact of the products elaborated by the cosmetic industry. In 2021, the considered as 'beauty majors', already worked in making the first drafts and foundations of this initiative.Initially, 36 marks did members of this new initiative baptised as 'EcoBeautyScore Consortium'. Between the initials, were included Henkel, L'Oréal, LVMH, Nature & Co and Unilever. Now, these 36 companies almost have duplicated , and are 60 the entities that have accepted to form part of this new procedure, as for example CTPA, of United Kingdom, FEBEA of France, IFRA…Echo Beauty Consortium members 2022In general lines, the aim of 'Echo Beauty Score' is to allow to the consumers take sustainable decisions of purchase by means of a common system of evaluation and punctuation of the environmental impact. This project answers to the need to face up and satisfy to a consumer that sues increasingly transparency to the companies and that it wants to know the footprint that generates his decision.The values that pretend to reach through 'Echo Beauty Score Consortium' are the inclusivity with the aim to achieve that all the industry take the way of the sustainability, independently of the size of the company, since it is an open initiative to the adhesion of any company. The feasibility, the capacity of measurement, as well as offer a meaning and an importance to all the subjects that turn around the industry and the notable content, as well as the politics and the 'stakeholders'. Another of the remarkable data of this project is that it treats of a 'common tool', by what the data will be shared with the rest of companies and the data will be visible between the different agents that participate in the initiative.The areas that cover this 'Echo Beauty Score' are the climate, the nature and the packaging. Regarding the first point, what pretends is to reduce the greenhouse gases through a tool that is a species of calculator adapted to know the quantity of this type gases issued by the industry. Regarding the nature, looks to protect the nature through new ingredients and also safeguard of the activities that make the industry through a database of risks and impacts related with the nature of key ingredients of cosmetics and a standard questionnaire for the participation of providers. In matter of packaging, treats of innovations that already result is in some familiar occasion, as for example, increase the use of material recycled for them, promote the recycling, sustainable supply of containers to wooden base through a guide of packaging.To the hour to calculate the quantity of greenhouse gases and the footprint of carbon, from the bases of 'Echo Beauty Score' signal that it is important to take into account three fields: direct broadcasts (it is necessary to take into account, for example, the boilers, cars or other elements of transport and machineries in addition to other activities of the company). The second 'Scope', as they indicate it, would be the impact generated through the broadcasts of energy mattered, like the electricity or the thermal energy. Finally, to calculate properly, the impact of the greenhouse gases of a company that adhere to this consortium, will be count the indirect broadcasts, like the commodities purchased, the transport of commodities and employees, the treatment of waste, the phase of utilisation of the products, as well as the end of the useful life of the packaging and of the products.Regarding the greenhouse effects, the conclusions will be able to extract through an automatic tool based in an infrastructure that has the support of LCA and the incorporation of IA. In said model, the companies will include his respective data and will offer a complete X-ray of the activities of his company, in addition to a description in which it will be able to identify the source of his broadcasts.Transparency and effectivenessSo that this method was effective, the companies will have to know with the greater possible accuracy data and aim that in occasions can escape or simply ignore, as for example the indirect broadcasts related with the supply of energy, the cost generated through the recycling and the reuse and even the itineraries of trip that make the employees of a company.Definitely, it treats of an exercise of collected of data and transparency that presents results really promising, but that they can be difficult to achieve owing to the difficulty to attain exact and precise data. The big corporations that form part no only have to count its activity, but also those companies that have subcontracted. An ambitious process whose denouement is still uncertain.

How does the 'Eco Beauty Score' work?

Climate, nature and packaging are the 3 main areas covered by the tool