Beauty bar
As anyone who’s attempted Plastic Free July knows, avoiding single-use plastic is tricky. It’s also confronting when you count the containers in your bathroom – shampoo, conditioner, liquid soap, body lotion, not to mention tubes of hand cream, lip balm and cosmetics.
Globally, around one million plastic bottles are purchased per minute. Yet alarmingly, only around 12 per cent of plastic is recycled around the world, with most of it heading to landfill or our oceans. The beauty industry is one of the worst offenders.
The packaging crisis is reaching a tipping point. It’s a signal for the beauty industry, and consumers, to grow up and move on to solids, which are
