Leading Industry Collaboration

EcoBeautyScore: Leading Industry Collaboration

Consumers are demanding transparency and sustainability in beauty. L'Oréal has long recognized this, beginning a decade ago with the development of SPOT, our internal Sustainable Product Optimization Tool. This science-based, Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) footprinting methodology helps us understand and improve the environmental impact of our products.

In 2022, L'Oréal took a leading role in forming the EcoBeautyScore Consortium (now the EcoBeautyScore Association), bringing together over 70 global companies to create an industry-wide standard.

Their collaborative effort resulted in the 2025 launch of the EcoBeautyScore tool. This easy-to-use platform helps cosmetic brands calculate and understand their products' full life-cycle environmental impact using a shared, science-based method. The tool's methodology is based on the European Commission's Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) approach and uses data from EcoInvent and SPICE (the Sustainable Packaging Initiative for CosmEtics). Built upon three years of collaboration with scientists and industry experts, and the EcoBeautyScore Association is now seeking third-party certification.

Through collaboration and transparency, the EcoBeautyScore Association fosters a sustainable culture across the beauty industry.