Refills

Coty files patent on in-store perfume blending refill station

10-Jan-2023 By Kacey Culliney

International beauty major Coty has filed a patent on a method to refill empty fragrance containers in-store, using a station that blends fragrance concentrate, distilled water and ethanol on-demand.

Special Edition: CIRCULAR BEAUTY – SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATION AND FUTURE PROMISE

Kao: ‘Maximising and minimising’ key to zero-waste circular beauty future

07-Apr-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Japanese personal care major Kao Corporation believes achieving a circular society will require a delicate balance of minimising beauty materials and maximising use, with thin-film packaging offering plenty of promise.

Beauty Kitchen’s circular retail model ‘Re’ secures €3.6m in UKRI funding

09-Mar-2022 By Kacey Culliney

UK indie brand Beauty Kitchen has secured a multi-million funding grant to upscale its circular retail model Re, aiming to save thousands of beauty bottles from landfill and break linear business models in the years ahead.

Wild Cosmetics founder: ‘We’re not trying to go after your typical hardcore eco-consumer’

07-Jan-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Sustainable indie deo brand Wild Cosmetics has secured a flurry of major retail listings in the UK – a move it says will help refills reach new consumers and widen sustainability awareness and engagement.

Plastic-free, refillable and reusable: above&beyond ‘lifetime’ indie brand wants to lead a bathroom revolution

22-Dec-2021 By Kacey Culliney

UK startup above&beyond has launched a plastic-free, refillable and reusable lip balm designed to last a lifetime – a product its founders say will shakeup the fast beauty world and its plastic problem.

Circular Retail: Beauty Kitchen wants ‘Re’ programme to direct change

17-Dec-2021 By Kacey Culliney

UK indie brand Beauty Kitchen is upscaling its circular retail programme ‘Re’ that it says should drive meaningful and non-competitive change in the coming years, and its founder has high hopes of onboarding a plethora of big and small brands.

Five 2023 beauty ‘personas’ to watch: Think frugality, sustainability, gender fluidity and creativity, says WGSN

05-Oct-2021 By Kacey Culliney

The next two years will see five cohorts of beauty consumers take centre stage - skinimalists, refillutionaries, beautopians, super basics and skillusionists - drawing a sharper focus on core desires around frugality, sustainability, gender fluidity and...

Colgate-Palmolive brings hand soap refill tablets to US personal care market

14-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the multinational consumer goods company launched its Softsoap Foaming Tablet Starter Kits and Refill Kits. The aluminum bottles and solid product refills are helping Colgate-Palmolive meet its 2025 sustainability goals.

TerraCycle CEO: The macro-economic climate for robust recycling is ‘going in the wrong direction’

23-Jun-2021 By Kacey Culliney

A robust global recycling market is a long way off and will need favourable macro-economic changes, fast-paced industry innovation and wider engagement from all stakeholders in the supply chain, says the CEO of TerraCycle.

‘Could be a gamechanger': Unilever to expand in-store refill and reuse trials across UK

16-Jun-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care major Unilever is ramping up its refill and reuse trials in UK retailers, adding a ‘return on the go’ system for convenient in-store collection and return of pre-filled stainless-steel bottles across key brands.

‘Small changes for a big difference’: Shiseido’s ELIXIR aiming for all key products to be refillable by 2025

26-May-2021 By Amanda Lim

Shiseido-owned ELIXIR is targeting to convert all of the brand’s flagship products into a refillable format by 2025 as part of the multinational’s sustainability goals.

‘For the Instagram generation’: Plant-based refillable deo startup Fussy preps 2021 launch

12-Oct-2020 By Kacey Culliney

UK startup Fussy has developed a line of refillable plant-based deodorants packed in modern, durable containers that aim to create fresh appeal in bathroom sustainability, its founders say.

From The Editor's Desk

Will you be left behind if you don’t switch to sustainable packaging?

18-Sep-2019 By Simon Pitman

An increasing body of evidence is pointing to sustainable packaging as the new industry standard, with recycled materials and refillable solutions becoming more and more popular.

Sustainable beauty packaging ‘a bit piecemeal’ despite urgent need for change

16-Aug-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Beauty has made sustainable packaging advances but nothing widespread enough to align with consumer expectations and the urgent need to save the planet, says a beauty industry commentator.