AS SUSTAINABILITY LEADER, WE AIM TO PIONEER NEW SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE SALONS WHILE CONTINUING TO SHAPE OUR BUSINESS RESPONSIBLY AND INCREASE OUR ECONOMIC SUCCESS.
We care about people and the planet and are devoted to the development of both. As a leading global company, we have an important role in this quest.
Using our craft of hairdressing, size, reach and resources to find new and efficient ways of doing what we love – creating new opportunities and positive impact on the lives of our clients, their business and their communities so we can deliver both long-lasting professional and personal fulfillment.
TOGETHER WITH YOU WE WANT TO CREATE IMPACT ACROSS THE ENTIRE VALUE CHAIN.
Building on our progress and activities in sustainable packaging, we continue to improve our packaging footprint in line with our new ambitious targets for 2025 with the vision of striving for 100% circular packaging by 2030.
As your Partner in Craft, we offer you a large variety of professional hair products. We take up our responsibility and set ourselves competitive packaging targets for 2025:
- 100% of our packaging at Schwarzkopf Professional will be designed for recyclability or reusability.*
- We aim to reduce the amount of virgin plastic from fossil sources in our products by 50%. We plan to achieve this by increasing the proportion of recycled plastic to more than 30%, reducing the plastic volume, and by increasingly using bio-based plastics.
- We want to help prevent waste from entering the environment. In order to achieve this, we are supporting waste management and recycling initiatives. We are investing in innovative solutions and technologies to promote closed-loop recycling.
In addition to this, we aim for 100 percent of the paper and cardboard we use for packaging to be made of recycled material or, where virgin fiber is required, to come from fresh fiber originating from sustainable forestry.
*Excluding products where ingredients or residue may affect recyclability or pollute recycling streams.
RECYCLABLE OR REUSABLE
All our packaging will be recyclable or reusable by 2025
LESS PLASTIC
Reduce the amount of virgin plastics from fossil sourced by 50% by 2025
WASTE
Supporting waste collection and recycling initiatives to promote closed-loop recycling
In our quest to preserve nature, we develop products with clean, nature-based and natural ingredients, responsibly sourced aiming to offer our customers more value with high performance at a smaller environmental footprint.
- Our products are developed and manufactured with the utmost care.
- We do not test our cosmetic products on animals. This applies to our entire professional hair care assortment.
- Since March 2013, the cosmetics regulation prohibits the testing of cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients on animals in the EU. Naturally, we respect, support, and comply with this obligation as a company.
- Last but not least: For almost 40 years, we have been committed to the development and recognition of alternative methods in many different ways.
- We engage our own research expertise to develop alternative testing methods, for example within the context of Phenion, or in relevant research collaboration initiatives at national or international association level, such as Cosmetics Europe.
- Read more about us, our commitment, the respective legal framework as well as China on our Corporate Site: https://www.henkel.com/brands-and-businesses/beauty-care/research-and-development/animal-testing
GREEN BEAUTY
Formulas with up to 95% naturally derived ingredients and relevant certifications.
CLEAN BEAUTY
"Free-from" formulas with optimal product properties and a focus on ingredients transparency.
Our challenge is to manufacture more while using fewer resources and we have defined long-term goals to ensure that we develop in this direction.
Our challenge is to manufacture more while using fewer resources and we have defined long-term goals to ensure that we develop in this direction.
- By 2030, we aim to achieve a climate-positive carbon footprint for our production sites (scope 1 and 2).
- In line with our ambition, the sites will become climate-positive in terms of their carbon balance when surplus CO2-free energy that we do not need for our own purposes is supplied to third parties.
- Therefore, we strive towards our existing goal of sourcing 100% of the electricity we purchase for production from renewable sources by 2030.
- We are still pursuing our target of making a 65% reduction of the carbon footprint of our production sites by 2025 compared to the base year 2010.
- We are also aiming to replace the fuels we need to generate thermal energy at our sites with CO2-free alternatives such as biogas or biomass by 2030.
- In addition to our activities at our own sites, we want to leverage our influence on areas of our value chain that are particularly relevant to CO2 emissions.
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS
Reduce CO2 emissions in production by 100% by 2030
RENEWABLE ENERGY
100% of the energy used is from renewable sources by 2030
REMAINING FOSSIL FUELS
Replace the last remaining fossil fuels used in our production and become climate positive by 2030
As your Partner in Craft, we want to be transparent about our steps on our journey to be more sustainable. Be inspired by our latest projects on climate impact.
The Wassertrüdingen plant’s production has been transformed to become more and more sustainable – from recycling initiatives and energy savings to rail transport and the latest technologies. Since 2018, Wassertrüdingen has already been using renewable electricity (bought-in electricity from external suppliers) for their production equipment, lighting, or cooling. By the beginning of 2021, a 17,000 m2 photovoltaic system was additionally installed on the roof of the production facility and a surrounding field – with solar panels with a surface area of more than two soccer fields. Those solar panels generate as much energy as is needed for the average annual energy consumption of 450 households without producing harmful CO2 emissions that cause climate change. In addition to green electricity, this site also uses biogas to further minimise the site’s overall carbon footprint. Furthermore, by becoming CO2-neutral in 2022, Wassertrüdingen saved 7,500 tons of CO2 emissions per year – which is more than going around the world 900 times by car.
“The projects carried out in Wassertrüdingen are now the blueprint for transforming our other sites on our way to CO2-neutrality. The team of Wassertrüdingen is sharing their know-how with all other sites so that they can benefit from the experiences made here on the ground.”
We started biogas delivery in Paris for Schwarzkopf Professional salons. In collaboration with our partner Geodis, the main objective is to reduce CO2 emissions but it's also a good way to reduce "noise pollution" in the city.
In Spain, we established an innovative last-mile delivery system together with Koiki. With this, we reduce CO2 emissions within our environment and we also promote employment in vulnerable condition collectives locally.
We want to enhance the livelihoods & well-being of our customers and their communities. Since 2010 we have had an impact on society beyond the planet through our global social initiative Shaping Futures, training socially disadvantaged young adults in the craft of hairdressing.
Shaping Futures is dedicated to a world where young adults can face their future optimistically and with confidence, knowing that they have the skills to actively contribute to society and shape their lives independent of any external restraints.
Tebogo really stood out during his Shaping Futures training in South Africa. His ability and commitment prompted one of his trainers – award-winning hairdresser and renowned stylist, Ania Kulec-Karampotis – to offer him an apprenticeship at her salon ‘Trendy Hair Fashion’ in Poland.
“Before Shaping Futures, I wasn’t really sure what to do with my life, but when my mother told me about the training I grabbed the chance – and it feels great. I am just really thankful to Shaping Futures for giving me the opportunity to become a great stylist."
Son was abandoned by his parents at a young age and from then on grew up in the SOS Children’s Village Thanh Hóa, Vietnam, along with his little brother and sister. By participating in Shaping Futures program, he was able to secure a job, practice and enhance his skills, gaining a lot of confidence in the process. Later, Son decided to move back to his hometown to open his own professional hair salon. Today, Son is giving back what he once received, closing the circle of Shaping Futures. Since 2018, he has returned annually to the SOS Children’s Village where he grew up, to join the Shaping Futures training – only this time as a trainer in his own right.
From growing up in an SOS children’s village in India to demonstrating her artistry on the Essential Looks World Tour stage in Berlin, Manashi showed how far one person can come in 19 short years. Her Shaping Futures training in Chennai, equipped her with the power to shape her life in a new way. Now, she is working at Naturals, one of the biggest hair salon chains in India.
With our Schwarzkopf Professional social initiative Shaping Futures we are proud that together with you we made an impact to many young lives.
Training countries worldwide
Volunteers from all over the world and counting
Young adults trained since 2010
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SOCIAL IMPACT