In a rapidly evolving market, cosmetics players must move beyond incremental change and embed sustainability into product development, supply chains, retail activation, consumer engagement and business performance.
We understand key industry challenges
Supply chain engagement
Supporting suppliers in adopting sustainability best practices across climate, biodiversity and plastics can significantly reduce upstream impact and strengthen supply chain performance.
Product portfolio transformation
Meaningful progress starts with products. Integrating ecodesign and circular design principles into product portfolios can significantly reduce impacts across the value chain.
Distribution channel engagement
Active collaboration between brands and distributors is essential to enabling circular solutions such as product refills and bulk formats, to optimizing packaging and marketing materials, and encouraging sustainability practices across professional networks.
Consumer engagement
The use phase is responsible for 40% of the sector’s impact. Influencing consumer beauty routines, supported by transparent communication and thoughtful design, can help meet targets while strengthening brand trust.
Digital transformation
As the industry advances sustainability across the value chain, the need for reliable data and transparency continues to grow. Companies must integrate digital tools that enable consistent measurement, tracking and reporting of sustainability performance at scale. Managing data flows effectively is critical to ensuring credibility, comparability and informed decision-making.
6 key topics for the beauty industry in 2026
2026 is set to be a transformational year for the cosmetics and personal care industry, driven by intensifying regulatory pressures and the urgent need to implement achievable sustainability strategies. From aligning with global regulations such as CSRD and EUDR, to addressing nature impacts and dependencies, as well as rethinking product design, the industry must shift beyond compliance to develop ambitious and meaningful activation plans. One priority stands out: integrating ecodesign to address the full environmental impact of products across the lifecycle.
Our Approach in Action
For two decades, Quantis has been the trusted sustainability advisor of the entire cosmetics & personal care industry globally including ingredient and packaging suppliers, brand manufacturers, retailers and professional channels, as well as trade associations and collective initiatives.
We are supporting all these players in their sustainability journey, aligning sustainability with business performance
We are supporting all these players in their sustainability journey, aligning sustainability with business performance
Quantis cosmetics and personal care experts can help you to:
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Develop science-based strategies and roadmaps beyond climate
Focusing solely on carbon can overlook material risks and opportunities across water, biodiversity, land use and plastics. We work with you to assess these interconnected issues, define clear priorities and build structured roadmaps that align environmental considerations with product strategy, sourcing decisions, market activation and growth plans.
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Accelerate and institutionalize sustainable innovation
By collaborating with your brands and product development teams to integrate ecodesign and circular design principles into products and packaging, we help respond to growing consumer demand for transparency and regulatory pressure for more sustainable solutions while reducing environmental impact across the value chain.
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Activate your supply chain
We support your teams in driving measurable change across supply chains, clarifying expectations, aligning incentives and focusing effort where it will have the greatest impact. By strengthening collaboration and accountability with upstream partners, we help translate strategy into practical results.
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Market activation
Retail collaboration, professional channel mobilization and consumer engagement are essential to the environmental impact reduction of the industry. Our experts partner with you to shape joint retail green business plans, put in place incentives for distribution channel, as well as developing credible and easy to understand consumer information schemes while steering clear of greenwashing.
Ready to align sustainability with business performance?
Quantis experts
Clement Turnier
Branch Cosmetics & Personal Care Lead
Emmanuel Hembert
Global Cosmetics, Personal Care & Pharma Lead
Victor Frontère
Branch Cosmetics & Personal Care Lead
Natalia Trunova
Branch Cosmetics, Personal Care & Pharma Lead
Laura Tasso
Branch Cosmetics & Personal Care Lead
Latest case studies
IOFI
By steering this pre-competitive initiative and aligning stakeholders, Quantis enabled the creation of a shared reference for non-proprietary ingredients commonly…
IFEAT
Quantis developed and implemented a scientific scoring framework to ensure credibility and comparability across applications.
Reckitt
Reckitt, with Quantis and CO2 AI, used AI and data to pinpoint and reduce Scope 3 emissions, improving footprint accuracy.
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