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🎉 BIG NEWS 🎉 We’ve launched into beauty, building upon Good On You’s decade-long expertise and trusted sustainability ratings system for fashion. This sees Good On You scale up industry-focused solutions for retailers, tech platforms, and commercial real-estate, upgrading our suite of enterprise tools to help your businesses assess the sustainability performance of brand portfolios and credibly engage consumers. Our ratings dashboard will now include 230+ beauty brands in addition to the 6,000+ fashion brands we’ve rated, with more brands added each week. Moreover, our ratings API will allow you to integrate the data into internal systems and create engaging consumer-facing experiences. Good Measures, a sustainability tool for brands, will also be updated, to help both fashion and beauty brands understand their rating, with tailored guidance on how to improve. “Since 2015, we’ve helped millions of people worldwide make better choices on our channels and through our retail partnerships,” says Sandra Capponi, co-founder. “Our ratings have helped retailers like FARFETCH, Klarna, Microsoft, and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield-Rodamco Westfield track performance and engage consumers.” The Good On You team has spent the past year consulting with experts and building the new beauty methodology, which covers haircare, makeup, and skincare brands. Thanks to proprietary tech that powers our existing ratings system for fashion, this behind-the-scenes infrastructure enabled us to quickly and effectively scale beauty ratings. “We’re excited to help even more retail businesses take action on sustainability and convert conscious shoppers,” Sandra adds. Swipe to learn about our new beauty ratings system and industry tools, then find out how your business can get involved here → https://lnkd.in/egMPcYpc

Did you hear that Nike and SKIMS are collaborating? They are—and we have some thoughts 🤨 Called #NikeSKIMS, the sportswear giant is hoping this pairing will “have a similar impact as Michael Jordan”, as Business Insider describes. But what does this mean for people, the planet, and animals? Potentially problems 😭 Collaborations between brands aren’t inherently bad, as they’re a merging of ideologies. The problem in this case is both brands have issues—but Nike is just slightly more in step with progress when compared to the abysmal SKIMS 🤢 Swipe to learn more about both brands and about the sustainability of collaborations, before exploring SKIMS’ rating here → https://lnkd.in/ejWNGAMb

We’re tired. You’re tired. But we cannot, cannot, cannot let the sustainability movement—in fashion, in beauty, and beyond—slip 🪧 2024 saw a shift in culture and in the industry, one that further prioritised profit over people and planet. This year, this shift seems to be turning more direct—and the sustainable movement is at stake. This means our future is too 🚨 A lot is happening in the world right now. A lot is happening in our lives right now! Like many sustainable businesses, we’re sounding an alarm: we have to fight for what we believe in, to push back harder on industries, on governments, and on our communities, to make others see the value in sustainability. Swipe to better understand this issue and how government and corporate shifts can mean sustainability losses. Share this post—and share how you plan to push forward for change in life and work ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼

How might lab-grown fibres reshape the fashion industry? And what obstacles stand in the way of their implementation? 🤔 For this month’s Industry Insider newsletter, we zoom in on this subject to explore exciting fibre innovations. The opportunity here is to create a material like cotton that avoids common issues with the material like water use, deforestation, and worker exploitation 💚 What are your thoughts on material innovations? How do you see them shaping the fashion landscape? Share below—and sign up today, to make sure you don’t miss tomorrow’s dispatch → https://lnkd.in/eGjEXB_W

You can be honest: how are you feeling about the sustainability space in 2025? The year is off to an interesting start and, as we near the end of the second month, we want to take a temperature check to understand how you are feeling. Please share your thoughts in the comments too, in case we can explain and explore subjects that might be affecting your community, your life, and your work. We’re here to hep you make change—and to stand up for sustainability 💚

If you’re looking for an example of what proactive sustainability leadership in retail looks like, look no further than our partners at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW). The real estate developer recently released its 2024 full year results, which included a progress update on their sustainability strategy. Highlights include a 42% reduction in emissions (since 2015), the continued installation of on-site renewable energy, and inclusion in TIME’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies 🎉 It also celebrated the expansion of the Sustainable Retail Index, which combines Good On You’s brands ratings with store level indicators to better understand the impact of brands present at their shopping centers and drive their progress. The SRI was expanded to beauty brands in 2024 and now covers 70% of eligible revenue in Europe 💚 In moments like these, when the sustainability movement faces very real challenges, it’s inspiring to see that some of the biggest brands in the world continue to push to reduce impact on people, the planet, and animals. Whether that’s reducing on-site energy use or supporting individual retailers to improve via tools like Good Measures, major retail players have a role to play—and we couldn’t be more proud to be supporting them. Learn more about URW’s progress here → https://lnkd.in/gpUFNuBY Is your business looking to stand up for sustainability? We can help: learn how we help e-commerce, real estate, publishers, and brands make a difference here → https://lnkd.in/e_EGsGgc

What are your favourite sustainability podcasts? 🎧 If you’re looking for something new to listen to in the fashion and beauty spaces, we’ve got some recommendations. Swipe for a few of them, via organisations and creators like Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Kestrel Jenkins McGill, Ethical Fashion Initiative, Formula Botanica, Brittany Sierra of Sustainable Fashion Forum, and more 📻 Share your sustainable podcast faves in the comments and visit the link for the full list, with links on how on how to listen 🔊→ https://lnkd.in/ep7ryypC

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HBO #Hacks’ actor Hannah Einbinder’s acceptance speech at the recent Critics Choice Association's Awards was a call to action: we have to do more for our environment—and we need to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable 🚨 This is vitally important to all of culture but, in fashion, this is particularly important as synthetic materials like polyester are over-used and unrecycled, resulting in non-biodegradable materials entering environments and harming both animals and people 👎🏿👎🏽👎🏾👎🏼👎🏻 🤔 What can be done to solve this problem? Swipe to learn more about the issue of plastics in fashion and visit the link for a full explainer on the subject → https://lnkd.in/eufjDgkj

Recycling clothing shouldn’t be so difficult 😤 Until governments regulate the matter or brands take more radical leadership on the matter, people like you are forced to “figure it out” 🙄 To help, we’ve put together a little explainer on what to do with unwanted clothes, from brands with take-back schemes to composting clothing ♻️ What are your thoughts on recycling clothes? Visit the link in bio for a full explanation—and share this post to remind others that clothing is not waste 💚→ https://lnkd.in/gscC4-ze Are you a small brand or big business hoping to implement a recycling or take-back scheme? Learn how Good On You can help you reach these goals here → https://lnkd.in/gpDTrhDC