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Made in New Zealand

We develop and manufacture our products in New Zealand. Our laboratory is ten minutes from Emma Lewisham’s headquarters in Auckland.

We manufacture in New Zealand as we are leading the way globally with 80% renewable electricity. Our laboratory empowers their people, pays living wage and has recycling, water usage and waste management policies at the core of their manufacturing.

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Our Suppliers

We work with international innovative laboratories that are at the forefront of developing natural skincare innovations (like plant stem cells and neuropeptides) that don’t come at a compromise to people or the planet. Our hero actives come from organic and regenerative farms from around the world.

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Our Retailers

We are represented by retailers that are as equally passionate about our sustainability goals and want to work with us to achieve them. We have all of our retailers partner aligned as drop off points for the Emma Lewisham Beauty Circle.

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The Emma Lewisham Clean Standard™

The Emma Lewisham Clean Standard™
Clean for people and the planet

It is our mission to move beauty towards a transparent, clean, circular and regenerative model. We believe that you can make luxurious, efficacious products without customers needing to compromise their health for it. We only use ingredients that are verified as safe by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). In fact, we ban over 2,700 ingredients that are used in mainstream beauty products due to safety and sustainability reasons. We are 100% clean, without any endocrine-disrupting synthetics or carcinogenic chemicals

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Beauty Regulation Changes

In keeping with our mission to create meaningful change in the beauty industry, we believe in standing up and taking a leadership position in having harmful ingredients banned from cosmetic products.

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Safe SPF Products

Sunscreens made with the mineral zinc oxide score well in the EWG's (Environmental Working Group) ratings, because it provides strong sun protection with no health concerns. A number of companies sell products advertised as containing non-nano zinc oxide. These claims are generally misleading. Although particle sizes vary among manufacturers, nearly all would be considered nanomaterials under a broad definition of the term, including the one proposed in 2011 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA 2011b).

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Planet

Cruelty Free

We firmly believe animal cruelty is more than just testing the finished beauty products on animals. Not only do we not test on animals, we review every ingredient in our products, to ensure they are not tested on animals. We also are constantly reviewing ingredients we use to ensure that popularity and demand does not lead to deforestation and loss of animal life. This is the level of standard and definition we have for cruelty free.

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Supply Chain Transparency

There's a huge and very complex supply chain in beauty, and we review and take ownership for every aspect of it. Emma Lewisham traces and discloses every ingredient we put into our products, every component of our packaging, where we source our ingredients from, and even where we need to improve and find solutions as a company.

Our ingredients all go through a robust vetting process (and why transparency is important to us) to ensure ingredients are: biodegradable, organic (where available), non GMO, cruelty free, child labour free, and are manufactured in a sustainable and preferably regenerative way.

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Small Batch Care

A key element of farm-to-face skincare is small batch production to ensure optimal freshness. When customers buy Emma Lewisham we want them to know that they're getting products that deliver proven, visible results for their skin, but not at the compromise to their health or the planet's.

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Our Results to Date

Sustainability and transparency are our north star, a beacon for the way we operate daily - it is not a one off project for us, it's engrained in our way of being and represented in every decision we make. The goals we have set and met, drive us and give us true purpose as a company.

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Carbon Neutral

Carbon Neutral Certified

We believe one of the biggest changes that we can make to have the most drastic and positive impact on our planet is to lower carbon emissions. We believe the circular beauty model is core to drastically lowering our carbon emissions as an industry. The other areas are understanding the carbon emission in respect to producing and manufacturing ingredients. When determining an ingredient, material for our packaging (such as carbon neutral recycled plastic for our tubes), or how we produce our products, we ask "what is our carbon emissions here". Currently, in addition to moving our packaging to refillable options, we are working through measuring our carbon emissions at a product level. This entails looking at the ingredients sourced, understanding the manufacturing process of each ingredient, our bottles and boxes and the transportation to the customer. Once we understand this, we will be working to significantly reducing what we're emitting as a company – before we offset the rest to become carbon neutral.

Responsible Water Use

The availability of clean, drinkable water is expected to nose dive by 2050 due to climate change, pollution and increased demand. We do not use water as a filler in our products and consider water usage across all aspects of our supply chain.

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Reef Safe

All Emma Lewisham products, particularly sunscreens, are designed to be marine friendly and reef safe. Our ingredients are 100% biodegradable.

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Circular

Our goal is to be a 100% circular brand by 2021 - meaning all of our products are offered in a refillable option.

We believe the circular beauty model is core to drastically lowering our carbon emissions as an industry and preventing the billion of units of beauty packaging that ends up in landfill and our oceans every year.

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Emma Lewisham Beauty Circle

We’ve proudly partnered with TerraCycle® to launch the Emma Lewisham Beauty Circle recycling programme – it’s about rethinking the entire process of a beauty product’s lifespan. Return, Recycle, Reward.

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Sustainable Packaging

Every piece of Emma Lewisham packaging is either recyclable, refillable and/or compostable. We are at the forefront of sustainable packaging for the beauty industry.

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Prosperity

Equality

We want to make a meaningful difference in the work we do. Emma Lewisham is passionate about all women having equal rights and opportunities, having been an advocate for over a decade in her work with Zonta International (an organisation that advocates for women’s empowerment globally). Through her platform, Emma wants to champion equality and fairness for all women.

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Social Partnership

We are passionate about women’s equality and fair opportunities for everyone. Central to this, we believe that education is the key to empowering women and breaking intergenerational cycles, which has a positive impact on their families and the community.

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Sustainability Strategy

We want to be the brand that inspires and gives you hope that there is a better way. Our sustainability strategy addresses the six drivers of our supply chain: raw materials, supplier, manufacturing, distribution, retail outlets and customers. These are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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A Truly Beautiful Beauty Industry

The beauty industry has become notorious as a huge contributor to environmental and social issues globally. From disrupting ecosystems and depleting non-renewable natural resources, to excessive water consumption and pollution, to the treatment of animals, to greenhouse gas emissions from supply chains, to the billions of units of packaging produced and ending up in landfills and our oceans each year.

The natural beauty trend has increased demand on natural ingredients. When produced mindlessly, the use of natural ingredients in beauty products on a large scale, disrupts ecosystems and depletes non-renewable natural resources.

There are also the non-natural ingredients to consider. The use of chemical components in products that don’t break down and instead accumulate in our ecosystems. Traditional cosmetics and toiletries do the most damage to the environment once they are washed away down our sinks. From our sinks, the chemicals are released into our lakes, streams, rivers and public water systems, damaging wildlife and flora and fauna.

It is also important to consider the packaging element of the cosmetics industry. Zero Waste reports that more than 120 billion units of packaging are produced every year by the global cosmetics industry – the majority of it is not recycled. If this level of consumption continues, by 2050 there will be 12 billion tonnes of plastic in landfills, the equivalent to 35,000 Empire State Buildings.

The UN has declared our current situation a ‘planetary crisis’. The current model of beauty is broken. It’s an unsustainable model for our planet and as an industry we need to change the way we operate, and fast.

Emma Lewisham is leading skin care into a new age: one that prioritises product efficacy without compromising people or the planet for it. Our single purpose is changing the industry for the better. We have an ambitious goal to transform the industry to one that respects people’s health, is transparent, circular and regenerative. What this means is prioritising people and the planet and putting them at the forefront of our decisions. Being transparent and open – even when there are areas, we haven’t yet found solutions. Ethical and considered sourcing of raw material. Providing transparency on all our ingredients and suppliers, and their treatment of their people and the planet. And that anything we produce can be refilled, reused or recycled. We will take full ownership for our supply chain from the beginning to the end, and always apply the question: is this good for people and the planet?

We still have a lot of work to do, obstacles to overcome and problems to solve, but we are so proud of what we have already achieved and have proven the "impossible" in beauty is possible. We want to give people hope that there is another way – that beauty doesn’t have to come at a compromise to people or the planet. We believe through building and proving a new model, we will pave the way for others to join us, bringing about a truly, beautiful beauty industry.