The winners of the 2025 Sustainable Beauty Awards have been announced on 22nd October at a reception during the European edition of the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit (22-23 October 2025) at the Crowne Plaza République hotel in Paris.
Organized by Ecovia Intelligence, the Sustainable Beauty Awards celebrate brands, companies, and innovators who are advancing the sustainability agenda through ground-breaking products, ingredients, packaging, or initiatives.
The judging panel has selected the following winners:
Sustainable Ingredient
Lucas Meyer Cosmetics by Clariant gets gold with Pickmulse, a Pickering emulsifier made from organic quinoa seeds from the Bolivian altiplano.
BioTara gets silver with Tucuma Butter, which is made from Tucuma fruits that are ethically sourced from the Amazon region in Brazil.
New Sustainable Product
Ringana’s Fresh Volume Shampoo is the gold winner. The COSMOS certified organic shampoo contains plant-based ingredients, such as a mushroom extract complex, fermented rice water, and a sugar beet–derived copolymer.
Kheoni Wellness gets silver with its Kokum Body Butter Moisturizing Bar. The palm oil-free, natural solid moisturizer is made from kokum that is sourced from tribal communities in the southern forests of India.
Sustainable Packaging
CAHM Europe’s QPearl is gold winner. The innovative biomaterial replaces plastic packaging for shampoo, shower gel, conditioner, body lotion, and related products. The protein-based material dissolves in water and biodegrades.
The two joint silver winners are Occeanne and SMCG Glass. The Californian brand Occeanne is using ocean plastic in its hand wash bottles. The Korean company SMCG Glass is making cosmetic packaging with a high level of Post-Consumer Recycled glass: 60%.
Sustainability Pioneer
Laverana is gold winner. The Hanover-based natural cosmetics company gets recognition for its holistic approach to sustainability. It has invested in research and science, a reforestation project, as well as sustainable packaging.
Croda Beauty is the silver winner for biodegradability of its ingredients. The ingredient supplier has expanded the biodegradability data available for its functional ingredient portfolio to cover a minimum of 90%.
Sustainability Start-Up
C16 Biosciencesis gold winner of this first-time award. The New York-based organization is using precision fermentation to make palm oil alternative from renewable feedstock.
The Dutch start-up Bamboovement is silver winner. It is producing plastic-free oral care and shaving products. Its disposable razor is made from upcycled wood waste and bio-based oils.
