For over 25 years now, we’ve worked with Unilever’s Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC) to develop and refine the best ways to reduce our environmental impact. … With renewable energy sources, reduced water use and zero non-hazardous waste to landfills, we’re completely committed to environmental protection.

We’re on a mission to help reduce waste around the world, from helping you recycle plastic to using more recycled materials in our packaging. Our parent company, Unilever, is proud to be an eco-responsible company. … To make it happen, we work with the three ‘R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Plus, the small amount of plastic we do use is 98% recycled. So, you can start your environmentally friendly deodorant routine and enjoy the Dove underarm care you know and love.

BETTER PLASTIC: This included the launch of 100% recycled plastic (PCR) bottles where technically feasible, in North America and Europe across all ranges (Dove, Dove Men+Care, and Baby Dove). … The Shower Foam and the Foaming Hand Wash formats in North America will be at 78% recycled plastic.

We are excited to announce that Dove has been certified as cruelty-free by PETA’s Beauty Without Bunnies Program. … PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is the biggest animal rights organisation in the world, with more than 6.5 million members and supporters.

Dove is proving its commitment to sustainability. The leading beauty care products brand just announced an initiative to cut back on plastic waste, and the long-term plan will reduce the use of virgin plastic by more than 20,5000 tons per year.

Dove moves to 100% recycled plastic bottles, and plastic-free packs for its beauty bar. Today, Dove, one of the largest beauty brands in the world, unveils new initiatives and impact figures to accelerate the global beauty industry’s progress to address plastic waste.

Yes, Dove soap contains palm oil. … Most all the big brand soaps use palm oil. It’s also in most all liquid soap.

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Spray deodorants and antiperspirants create the most obvious and perhaps most dangerous threat to the environment. Every time you use spray-on deodorant or antiperspirant, you’re releasing chemicals into the air. These sprays likely contain the largest amount of volatile organic compounds.

Our single use sachet recycling scheme By recovering the plastic polymer from the sachet, it can be reused to make new ones. Unilever also plans to set up sachet packaging waste collection schemes with local governments and communities to reduce waste and create economic growth opportunities.

Dove does not test any of its products or ingredients on animals or ask others to test on its behalf. However, Dove sells some of its domestically-manufactured products in China.

Dove soap is set to lose its plastic wrapping after the beauty giant announced a global move towards eradicating all plastic from its products. … Work is well underway on the product, whose packaging will primarily consist of stainless steel, it said.

The overall Dove brand is distributed in 171 countries and bottles require almost two-thirds of all plastic that the brand uses, according to Amy Stepanian, Dove and Dove Men+Care U.S. brand director.

With its patented blend of mild cleansers and moisturising cream, Dove’s iconic Beauty Bar rinses cleaner than soap, leaving skin clean, soft and smooth. It is the #1 Dermatologist Recommended brand in the US, Canada and France and strongly endorsed by Dermatologists across the world.

Dove has been globally accredited Cruelty Free by the animal rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in recognition of the Dove global commitment to permanently end tests on animals everywhere in the world.

ages 18 to 35 Dove’s target audience was comprised of highly engaged women active on digital and social media. The brand focused on females, ages 18 to 35, who valued natural, healthy beauty products.

Detergents don’t completely biodegrade, and they contaminate our water supplies, rivers, and oceans with toxic heavy metals like cadmium and arsenic. Chemicals from the laundry detergent make their way from the washing machine to groundwater, which eventually ends up in the ground and in waterways.

Dove, the Unilever-owned beauty brand, has announced that its iconic soap bar will no longer be wrapped in plastic. Next year, all of the brand’s beauty bars sold globally will be plastic-free. … We are passionately committed to being one of the brands making the biggest impact against plastic waste.

The most common soaps, shampoos and detergents actually pose a minimal risk to the environment. This is the conclusion of a comprehensive survey that covers more than 250 scientific studies over several decades.

Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said a study had found that the word normal makes most people feel excluded.

Dove will no longer utilize plastic wrapping for its soap bars. … Additionally, Dove’s shampoo and cream packaging will be made from 100% recycled plastic. These efforts are part of the brand’s commitment to reduce plastic waste by 2025.

Care that goes further. At Dove, we believe in care that goes further: for our consumers, as well as our planet, says Marcela Melero, VP Dove Global Skin Cleansing. … By taking these steps, Dove will be the biggest brand in the world that has moved to 100% recycled packaging.

What is the problem with palm oil? Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world’s most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino.

In 1996, Unilever scientists worked on altering their body-wash formula. First, they made the liquid thicker and the lather creamier, making the Dove body wash feel as good as Olay. Two years later they added sunflower oil, whose triglycerides moisturized as well as Olay.

Palm oil and palm kernel products are widely used soap ingredients that we refuse to use. … The World Wildlife Fund writes The (palm oil) industry is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty, and indigenous rights abuses in the countries where it is produced.

Most commercial antiperspirants contain aluminum in some form it’s the active ingredient to help reduce sweating. … While not all of these ingredients will be toxic to the environment as such; they all have to be created which can often be an energy and resource intensive process.

Our Eco Champion: Fit Pit Our top-scoring eco deodorant is created by green sisters Eve Carnall and Suzanne Loudwill. Handmade in small batches in the UK, it’s free from aluminium salts, parabens, BPAs, palm oil and petrochemicals. It’s organic, vegan, plastic-free and delivered in reclaimed packaging.

When wet and applied to clean skin, the mineral salts in crystal deodorant prevent the growth of odor-causing bacteria, Agarwal explains. However, crystal deodorant doesn’t actually stop you from sweating, which for a lot of sweaty dudes out there, might be a problem.