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At L'Oréal Professionnel, we are committed to not only improving the environmental and social footprint of our products but to also sharing this information with our community.

Know more about our environmental and social footprint impact score of our products.

One overall score to help you choose the right products.

To help you make more sustainable choices, we've developed an environmental scoring system.

The "Overall Environmental Impact" score is based on a L'Oréal Group scoring methodology that gives an accurate vision of the impact of a product by taking into account 14 planetary impact factors*, such as greenhouse gas emissions, water scarcity, ocean acidification or the impact on biodiversity.

The impacts are measured at every stage of product's life cycle and calculated by looking not only at sourcing, production and transportation, but also consumer usage and packaging recyclability.

*Carbon, waterscarcity, freshwater ecotoxicity, freshwater eutraphication, marine eutraphication, water acidification, fossil and mineral ressources depletion, land transformation, terrestrial eutraphication,particulate matter, toxicity via environment, ionizing radiation, ozone depletion, and photochemical formation.

Discover our methodology.

This environmental impact labelling methodology was developed by the L'Oréal Group with the help of 11 independent scientific experts and is aligned with the European "Environmental Product Footprint" standards that aim to reduce the environmental impact of goods and services with a multi-criteria approach.

This calculation methodology was developed by the L'Oréal group with 11 indepedent scientific experts and is aligned with the European "Environmental Product Footprint" (PEF) standards. The application of the impact calculation method and the accuracy of the data are verified by independent auditor Bureau Veritas.

Our methodology The bureau veritas verification statement

Where to find the environmental score ?

Each product's environmental score is indicated on the product information section of the website, right after the ingredient list. In this section you will also find more information about the product's manufacturing conditions, packaging, and social impact, to name few.

We've also chosen to highlight the carbon and water footprint of our products. These two impact factors represent over 90% of the overall environmental impact of L'Oréal Professionnel products.

WHAT DOES "CARBON FOOTPRINT" MEAN ?
Carbon footprint refers to the quantiry of greenhouse gas (CO2) emitted throughout the product's life cycle: ingredient sourcing, packaging, production, transportation, consumer usage and recyclability, to name few.

WHAT DOES "WATER FOOTPRINT" MEAN ?
This refers to the quantity of water consumed throughout a product's life cycle. It takes into account the water required for ingredient sourcing, packaging, formula production, the water required to rinse out our products, and the water needed to process the resulting grey water. For L'oréal professionnel, water footprint represents over 75% of the overall environmental impact.

Glossary

Responsible Manufacturing Plant.

A manufacturing plant that, year after year, reduces its greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, water sonsumption, waste generation, and that contributes to the development of local employment - especially for people in vulnerable economic situations - and access to training for its employees. WASTE RECOVERY Waste from manufacturing is either reused, recycled or transformed into energy (waste-to-energy). In order to avoid sending waste to a landfill, materials that cannot ne reused or recycled are used as fuel in special furnaces to generate energy. Did you know ? All L'Oréal Professionnel products manufactured in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, India and China are produced in carbon neutral factories.

FSC or PEFC Certified Paper or Cardboard.

The paper or cardboard used in the product packaging comes exclusively from forests that are managed responsibly, in a way that protects biodiversity, and are independently certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or the Program for the Endorsement of Forest certification (PEFC). Did you know ? All our packaging and instruction leaflets, without exception, come from sustainably managed and certified forests.

95% Recycled Material.

Material produced using other recycled materials. Did you know ?. By 2025, L'Oréal Professionnel will ensure its plastic packaging does not contain virgin plastic. Today, Serie Expert bottles are made with at least 95%¹ recycled plastic. ¹Excluding the cap & pump.

Recyclable.

Components that can - where the infrastructure allows - be collected and treated by a special industrial process to give rise to a new material. Did you know ? By 2025, all of L'Oréal Professionnel's plastic packaging will reusable, recyclable or compostable. We currently include recycling instructions on our Serie Expert range to help consumers correctly recycle.