Nutricosmetics 2030 is a digital platform created by Tosla Nutricosmetics for beauty supplement innovators intended to be a cross-industry resource with content and live and online events to gather and share knowledge from experts in the nutritional beauty supplements category.
The newly released Nutricosmetics 2030 Sustainable Beauty Inside Out podcasts are packed with insights and information from top brand leaders, product formulation experts, and industry observers to help understand the challenges and opportunities around sustainability. Key topics covered are rules and regulations, life-cycle approach to functional beauty, the supply side of the story, and a conversation with a plastic expert.
Ute Wollenweber is the CEO and founder of Care-and-Science, and one of the experts featured in the new series who believes sustainability will be a new standard. She is not alone in her thinking— manufacturers, other regulatory experts, and brand leaders believe sustainability is the future.
Toni Carroll the CEO at My Beauty Luv shares, "Sustainability is from the beginning to the end; it is the entire process, from ingredient sourcing to how the ingredients are manufactured, the communities that are involved, how the environment is impacted with that manufacturing, to the transportation, your packaging—it's the whole story."
CEO and founder of Tosla Nutricosmetics Primož Artač says, "The standards are the cherry on top because the legislation, the regulations are pushing you. It's a natural progression that you go into the standards. You don't see it as something that is an obligation but rather a recognition of your work."
Alessandro Solcia, Production Manager at Arca Sleeves Srl. comments, "The collaboration is absolutely crucial when it comes to achieving sustainability goals in any industry. No single company can solve the complex challenge of sustainability on its own. Sustainability has to be our main goal. If we love our planet, and our people, we have to follow these kind of guidelines. Because I think that everything starts with educating the people."
Rok Miklavčič, Business Development at Mica d.o.o., a company specializing in plastic packaging, says, "If you get the wrong information, you tend to offer a wrong solution. We, as producers— especially the ones present on this panel—have the same mission, to achieve these goals in order to preserve the earth for future generations."
"Opinions differ, but the facts do not. The results, if you look at the facts, are clear and consistent. How do you define sustainability? The only way to define that and the only way to measure it is a life-cycle analysis," shares Chris DeArmitt, President at Phantom Plastics and world-leading expert on plastic materials science and formulation.
He continues, "So, if we want to make a lower impact or live a better future, then either we have to dig a hole in a garden and jump in, but I haven't seen anyone doing it. I haven't seen anyone who wants to end it all and give up their phones, computer, the internet, or anything. So, our responsibility is to have a nice life but to make choices that cause the least harm. And the only way to do that is a life-cycle analysis. Because that's been used for decades. Every company and government uses it, and these are all published and for free."
