After we bought right here all through a cosmetics’ agency declaring that it might wish to see its purchasers buy fewer of its merchandise, we knew we merely wanted to interview its founder on Inexperienced Magnificence Conversations. This podcast, as one focused intently on the ethics and observe of inexperienced magnificence, has heard commerce journalists ask time and again how a cosmetics’ agency would survive if it impressed its purchasers to buy a lot much less. What kind of magnificence enterprise dare title out the elephant inside the room – overconsumption as a root set off of damage to the planet?
We now have tackled the consumption problem in fairly a couple of episodes; our Podcast 124: the 4 pillars of sustainable magnificence spells out a blueprint of how the surprise commerce can technique sustainability. Nevertheless, until now, we had not talked on to a magnificence mannequin that was so aligned with our private messaging.
On this episode, Elements Botanica CEO and podcast host Lorraine Dallmeier talks to founder and CEO of Elate Cosmetics, Melodie Reynolds, to search out how her mannequin has constructed a sustainable enterprise for a further sustainable planet by working a less-is-more enterprise model. Listen in to hearken to from Melodie, a pushed and inspirational founder, about how Elate is putting these pillars of sustainable magnificence into movement.
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On this episode with Melodie of Elate Cosmetics, you’ll hear:
- How Melodie was impressed to start her journey to founding Elate the day she bought a single lipstick in a mass of pointless packaging. She realised that unsustainable practices wanted to be dealt with at provide by reducing consumption.
- Elate’s promoting stresses, “don’t buy it within the occasion you don’t need it”. It promotes the concept of the capsule magnificence bag as a result of the core of frequently magnificence requirements.
- The mannequin has no need for each purchaser to buy fairly lots, as a result of it focuses on getting purchasers to come back again once more to Elate always over the 12 months to repeat buy their magnificence necessities. Elate must see its merchandise used up, not bought in bulk or in haste solely to go to waste.
- Instead of rising a limitless range of cosmetics, Elate has pioneered a magnificence market of like-minded producers whose necessities for ethical elements, low-waste packaging and extreme effectivity they’ll vouch for. Melodie sees this as a significantly better technique to maintain true to Elate’s mission of specializing in requirements than by fulfilling every attainable magnificence purchaser’s need in its private line.
Key takeouts embrace:
- Magnificence prospects, due to a very long time of commerce messaging and promoting, are conditioned to buy new, shiny magnificence merchandise whether or not or not they need them or not. There’s nonetheless some technique to go, even for sustainably-minded producers, to show purchasers to not buy for the sake of it.
- Shade cosmetics can present powerful to slender all the way in which right down to an necessary capsule magnificence bag assortment as this sector should cater for quite a lot of pores and pores and skin tones and pay attention to the have to be inclusive. Elate happily consists of additional colourways within the occasion that they present widespread repeat buys. As Elate says, it might presumably’t make your entire requirements purchasers need for frequently, so it companions with totally different producers.
- Melodie feels the surprise fable is part of the rationale the commerce is so unsustainable. Until the commerce begins to level out frequently of us using its merchandise pretty than exhibiting fashions who venerate explicit, perfectionist pictures of how purchasers must look, it could actually proceed to gasoline unbridled consumption as magnificence consumers attempt to obtain unattainable beliefs.
- By elevating sustainability as its private message pretty than harnessing it for promoting causes, the surprise commerce can begin to have a crucial dialogue about overconsumption.
Meet our customer: Melodie Reynolds
Empowered by 20 years inside the magnificence commerce and a imaginative and prescient of a world with out single-use packaging, Melodie Reynolds created Elate Cosmetics with a straightforward message: our day-to-day choices create worldwide affect, and deciding on ethical merchandise means a further constructive consequence.
After leaving a occupation in firm magnificence, Melodie has been creating fashionable magnificence merchandise since 2014 that encourage simplicity and self-love and empower everyone to make sustainable choices for his or her day-to-day rituals. She believes that the ethics and performance of a corporation distill right down to 1 key question: how did we depart the oldsters and the planet? Her personal mission is to change the world, one lipstick at a time.
Elate Cosmetics is an ethical magnificence mannequin with a imaginative and prescient of a world with out single-use cosmetics packaging. It makes refillable, high-performing vegan and cruelty-free cosmetics with an ethical present chain, accountable promoting and sustainable, reusable packaging. As a B-Corp licensed agency, Elate prioritises of us and the planet. It educates, empowers and evokes everyone to simplify their magnificence rituals to reduce waste.
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