‘Measured, Tracked and Validated’: Estée Lauder Outlines ‘Green Score’ Tool for Beauty via Cosmetics Design Europe

Beauty major The Estée Lauder Companies has outlined a method it has developed to score ingredients, formulations and products on their green value, considering human health, ecosystem health and environmental endpoints throughout the supply chain.

Published in the Royal Society of Chemistry, Estée Lauder executives, scientists and several external sustainability specialists outlined how the beauty major had applied green chemistry principles to its raw material selection and product formulation processes via a “quantitative green chemistry scoring
methodology”.

The methodology, or framework, they said, enabled Estée Lauder to provide a ‘green score’ for cosmetic and personal care products, ingredients and formulations and therefore conduct a “rapid assessment” by following a “hazard-based approach” that considered several human health, ecosystem health and
environmental endpoints.

“The current approach advances the organisation’s sustainability goals in a way that can be transparently measured, tracked and validated,” the study authors wrote. “With this data-driven approach comes the opportunity to proactively guide the supply chain and strengthen green-chemistry-inspired formulation above and beyond regulations.”