08/08/2024

The guide to sorting your cosmetic products

Sorting to recycle is a well-understood habit. At least in the kitchen. Because in the bathroom, it's often another matter. How many of them are equipped with two bins? Whether out of convenience or ignorance, many of our cosmetic products end up in household waste, with no other treatment solution than incineration or landfill. While many of them can be recycled!

Although largely forgotten in recycling, beauty product packaging is nevertheless largely eligible for the sorting bin. Like many household or food products, they only need a few seconds for the different elements that compose them to be separated. It is then up to us to direct them in the right direction. Our selective sorting guide explains everything.

Who goes where? The guide to selective sorting

Want to know more?

The recyclability guide for beauty packaging published by Citéo

The list of different recycling logos and their meaning according to Ademe

Cosmetic packaging: a necessity… and an obligation to do better

In cosmetics, packaging remains a necessity, especially because most formulas are in an aqueous form, especially when it comes to moisturizing. More or less liquid, these formulas are sensitive to bacterial contamination and oxidation. Hermetic packaging is therefore essential to preserve the safety of the product in the short and medium term.

That said, not all packaging is equal, and not all is necessary. Plastic is far from being the only material available, and it even becomes unacceptable when it comes in the form of a film placed around a case… sometimes itself containing cellophane packaging!

Fortunately, the cosmetics industry is moving forward and such examples are becoming increasingly rare. In France, the Agec law provides the sector with an excellent stimulus: it provides for the total disappearance of single-use plastic packaging by 2040, with, initially, the recycling of all plastic packaging by 2025. The change is already underway: from March 2023, cosmetics manufacturers will be required to display a new unique sorting logo ("Triman") on their packaging and details on the sorting methods. Many other advances are also required in terms of information and use of certain materials. To find out more, click here:

Everything you need to know about the Agec law

The Agec law and specific actions in the cosmetics sector

AND FOR MYBLEND, HOW DOES IT WORK?

At myBlend, our commitment is clear: to move towards 0 plastic. Today , less than 4% of our packaging is used, and we are making progress every day to eliminate it completely.

In other words, you will only find plastic in three places in myBlend packaging: in the pumps when the product is equipped with them (they are then unscrewable so that they can be sorted and recycled); on the neck of our bottles to reduce their thickness; and finally in our samples where health requirements still require the use of plastic bags.

For the rest, all our cases favor easily recyclable materials such as glass and pure aluminum covers. And it goes without saying that all our cases are made of recycled and recyclable raw cardboard, without any cellophane.