Reducing waste with L’OCCITANE
Less waste, more beautiful
In today's world, any responsible company has a duty to do all it can to reduce waste and prevent pollution. The future of our planet depends on our actions today! At L'OCCITANE, we've been focusing on ways to reduce, reuse and recycle for many years, but there's still more we can do. And we're working on it!
Less new plastics, more green for the Earth
More than 10 years of using recycled plastic bottles
Do you know why the bottles in our hair care range have a green color? It's because they're designed to be green! In the world of cosmetics, clear plastics are usually preferred, but we chose to use coloured bottles for this range, so we could make them from 100% recycled PET.
By 2025, we want to be using rPET in all our bottles, and we're working with Loop Industries to make this happen!
Less packaging, more to love
Save the Earth and save money with Eco-Refills!
For over 20 years, we have offered eco-friendly refills as part of our commitment to reducing waste. With a wide range of over 20 products offered in a refill format, you can save up to 97% packaging weight vs the original when you switch to these wallet-friendly Eco-Refills!
Less wasted ingredients, more love for your skin
Zero ingredients wasted
An important part of reducing waste is making sure we make full use of the ingredients we harvest. Every part of our Almond and Shea nuts are used, including the shells, so that absolutely nothing goes to waste.
Less of the unnecessary, more on what matters
Removing what is not needed
Every little bit matters when it comes to reducing waste, which is why we have removed cellophane wrappers from our boxes. We have also printed usage instructions of our products on the inside of the boxes they come in, reducing the need for an extra product leaflet.
Why do we care about reducing waste?
By 2050
there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean.
50% of plastic
the world uses is used just once, then thrown away.
Over the last 10 years
humans have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.
Our mission to reduce waste by 2025
Make it easier for you to Recycle
100% of our stores will offer a beauty empties recycling service by 2025.
Use more Recycled packaging
100% of our bottles will be made with recycled plastic by 2025. Our 5 Essential Oils hair care range and Eco-Refill packets are already leading the way, and are 100% made with recycled plastic!
Big Little Things recycling program
Recycle your empties, redeem rewards
Our dream is to build a recycling culture in the beauty community, which is why we make recycling as easy and as rewarding as possible. Our Big Little Things recycling program accepts full-sized, cleaned and dried beauty empties from any beauty brand in return for digital stamps. Once you have collected enough stamps, you will be able to redeem them for a mini L’OCCITANE bestseller!