[Upcycling Ingredient] Cosmetics that contribute to the environment
#Private label cosmetic products
#Cosmetic OEM/ODM service
#SSH Korea cosmetic products development
Recent consumption trends have increasingly reflected consumers’ individual beliefs.
For example, consumers who value animal protection only use cosmetics that are cruelty-free, non-animal tested, and vegan certified.
Consumers who choose environmentally friendly products because they are concerned about the serious destruction of the Earth’s environment also share this behavior.
There are many ways you can contribute to the environment, such as Carbon positive products that want to contribute to the prevention of global warming (carbon positive related products are also available at our SSH), Sustainable process that minimizes environmental destruction when collecting resources (it is also possible at our SSH to use materials from sustainable production methods), and also Upcycling concept that utilizes discarded materials to minimize environmental waste.
In this article, we are going to introduce private label cosmetic products using upcycling materials.
Upcycling means ‘Up’ Cycling’, which goes beyond simple recycling of discarded waste and it means even improving it into products with higher added value.
Not only for the cosmetics industry, this upcycling concept has many uses.
For example, (1) remaking bags and clothing using functional fabrics such as discarded waterproof cloths and firefighting uniforms, (2) adding design elements to waste materials and using them as high-value design accessories, or (3) converting discarded wood materials and paper into boxes, furniture or household items. Those are the concept that can be widely used in a variety of fields.
In conclusion, Upcycling, also known as Creative Reuse, means the converting to new materials or products of better quality and need by adding artistic or environmental value to by-products, waste, and useless or unwanted products.
These up-cycling keywords can be seen as a significant trend with the same direction as keywords such as ‘Eco friendly, Environment friendly, Sustainable, Sustainability’, which are also in the spotlight recently.
When these keywords are combined with consumer goods such as cosmetics, they can reach out to smart consumers who want to contribute to society through their consumption meaningful, so various industries are working hard to produce products that meet this trend.
In cosmetics, keywords related to social contribution consumption such as cruelty free, vegan, and non-animal testing are attracting more attention from consumers, and together with this, up-cycling is also being considered as keyword that can attract the attention of these progressive consumers as environmental contribution and eco-friendly trends.
In the case of food, a huge amount of food is wasted around the world every year, and various upcycling methods are being tried to solve this problem. One common method is to feed those food wastes to animals such as pigs. This way, you can save on discarded food waste.
Another type of food upcycling method is to decompose it and use it as energy through biofuel, or to use it as compost.
The upcycling cosmetics products that we SSH Korea can provide is that using skin active materials produced from utilizing plant materials that are discarded as they are difficult to sell as food (such as unripe or damaged fruit during the cultivation process of plants and fruits) by converting them into high value-added skin active extracts for cosmetics, and this process can help saving a huge amount of unmarketable fruits that are discarded and prevent environmental destruction.
In fact, in the cosmetics field, unripe fruit, which is not marketable as a food product, actually contains a higher content of good skin-effective ingredients, and as a result, there are many cases where the skin effect is actually superior to that of mature fruit.
These upcycling plant extract materials that we can use include pear (La France – whitening and skin texture improvement effects), watermelon (anti-glycation, anti-aging effects), and edible mushroom (moisturizing and skin protection effects), Melon (cell proliferation, moisturizing, skin texture improvement), cherry (moisturizing, antioxidant, polyphenol), persimmon (deodorant, scrub, cell proliferation), etc. which is high quality materials made of various specialty fruit and plant materials which are effective materials for cosmetics.
Please contact SSH Korea for private label cosmetics using the above upcycled materials.
