Editor’s Picks: Sustainable Superstars

Discover brands that are making a difference! These featured products come from brands that strive to help the environment and make positive changes for a sustainable future.

Armani Beauty My Way Eau de Parfum
from $95, available on Sephora.com

A fresh and delicate fragrance, My Way is made with carefully chosen ingredients and packaged in a refillable bottle. My Way’s ecological design choices allow the reduction of carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.

A reflection of the fundamental values of the brand creator, Armani beauty commits to eco-designs for their products, the fight against climate change, and the shortage of drinking water. Giorgio Armani products include refillable formats, recycled materials, and natural ingredients from sustainable sources. Also on their sustainability agenda, Armani beauty focuses on reducing its carbon emissions with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025. Their efforts towards reduced carbon emissions and the preservation of endangered forests in Africa enabled the brand to achieve carbon neutrality in 2020 for their MY WAY fragrance.

Origins Ginzing Energizing Gel Cream
$45, available on Sephora.com

Free of animal-derived ingredients, this vegan face moisturizer boosts radiance and fights fatigued-looking skin. Join Origins and do your part for the environment by properly disposing of the newly designed, recyclable jar for this product.

Bringing a new skincare vision to life, Origins creates transformative skincare with naturally derived ingredients. Committed to giving back to nature and reducing their impact on the planet, Origins has pledged to breathe new life into forests by planting and caring for over 2 Million tree saplings around the world. The Origins brand also boasts minimal packaging made with recycled, refillable, reusable, recycled, or recoverable materials and uses 100% renewable electricity to manufacture their products.

Three Ships Dew Drops Mushroom Hyaluronic Acis + Vitamin C Serum
$49, available at threeshipsbeauty.ca

Shop their best-selling water-based serum that’s certified vegan. Naturally derived ingredients tremella mushrooms and kakadu plums replenish moisture, brighten, and plump the skin.

Using recyclable and compostable materials as well as screen printing product labels makes this Canadian cosmetic company’s packaging design easy to recycle and compost. For hard-to-recycle components like serum stoppers and caps, Three Ships has partnered with the Pact Collective who finds the best use for these materials. Three Ships also sees value in discarded raw materials and strives to use upcycled ingredients in their formulations. 

Burt’s Bees 3 Pack Assorted Lip Balm
$12.99 available at Shoppers Drug Mart.

Shop the favourite pack of their classic beeswax lip balm to try three flavours of Burt’s Bees 100% natural lip balms. Infused with natural butters and oils, these lip balms moisturize and soften the lips and are formulated without Parabens, Phthalates, or Petrolatum.

Burt’s Bees makes all their products with responsibly sourced ingredients that replenish and strengthen the skin. Respecting and preserving nature, Burt’s Bees has designed their packaging to be recyclable, power their facilities with renewable electricity, and promise to keep 1.5 million pounds of plastic out of the oceans. Burt’s Bees reinvests in nature and communities where they can and strives to protect biodiversity, support climate resiliency, and safeguard natural and cultural resources.