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BEAUTY OF OUR PRODUCT

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Our products have an important role to play in building a sustainable future. To respond to evolving social and environmental challenges, sustainability is at the heart of our product creation, from design and development through to procurement of materials.

Sustainable Innovation

We integrate sustainability criteria into the development of all new products and are changing the way we design, formulate, and manufacture in order to minimize our environmental impact and create cleaner, more innovative products.

In 2019, we developed our internal Beauty That Lasts Index - a qualitative tool to integrate social and environmental criteria into the packaging and formula development process. The Index is now fully deployed across the categories and will be applied to all new initiatives from 2021.

Our R&D function works to leverage the best that nature and science have to offer. By working hand-in-hand with our ingredients suppliers, we use the latest innovation and technology, applying green science to minimize the pressure of our products on natural resources.

Increasingly, this means clean products that meet consumer demand for ingredient transparency and safe, minimalist formulas that don’t compromise on product quality.

Coty’s Product Development Focus Areas

GOOD FOR THE PLANET

Minimizing the environmental impact of materials, packaging and product use

GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE

Formulating with vegan and cruelty-free ingredients

GOOD FOR ME

Designing with the principles of clean beauty

GOOD TO BE NATURAL

Using biotechnologies and natural ingredients

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SPOTLIGHT ON

DESIGNING LANCASTER SUN SENSITIVE FOR SUSTAINABILITY

In FY21 we relaunched the Lancaster Sun Sensitive range with new clean and ocean-friendly formulas. Formulated with 40% fewer ingredients and with an ocean friendly UV filter system, the range was the first ever sun care range to receive a Silver C2C Certified Material Health Certificate from the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

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PACKAGING

Packaging plays an important role in protecting our products and informing our consumers, but it is a significant hotspot of our environmental footprint. We are developing new packaging targets to address
this impact.

Since 2018, we have been a member of the Sustainable Packaging Initiative for Cosmetics: an initiative that brings together the world’s cosmetics organizations to move the whole industry towards more sustainable packaging.

Responsible Sourcing

Our products are made with ingredients sourced all over the world, so we recognize that our impact extends beyond our own operations. For Coty, responsible sourcing means actively sourcing products and services in an ethical, sustainable and socially conscious way. Our Responsible Sourcing Framework establishes key indicators to monitor progress in the management of our sourcing activities.

We require suppliers to adhere to our Code of Conduct for Business Partners (CoC), which sets out our expectations for anti-corruption, data privacy and human and labor rights, among other practices.

Compliance with the CoC or agreed equivalent is a requirement of working with us, and we use several tools to audit and manage the risk of supplier non-compliance.

We also work collaboratively with organizations including: AIM-Progress, a network of businesses dedicated to promoting responsible sourcing practices; and we are a founding member of the Responsible Beauty Initiative (RBI), a beauty industry effort to improve sustainability across supply chains by sharing best practices and processes.

Materials and Traceability

We pay particular attention to those raw materials which present the greatest potential risk for harmful impacts.

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PALM OIL

We have been a member of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2017, and are working towards purchasing 100% mass balance-certified palm oil for our production sites and third-party manufacturers. As part of our commitment to improve transparency in our supply chains, we also publish the list of business partners supplying Coty materials containing palm oil derivatives.

 

This list represents the majority of our business partners and will evolve over time as we continue to engage with suppliers on this topic.

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MICA

We are a founding Board member of the Responsible Mica Initiative: a multi-stakeholder action group aiming to establish a 100% sustainable Indian mica supply chain, free from child labor.
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Product Stewardship & Safety

Ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of safety is integral to maintaining the trust of our consumers, and a top priority for Coty. The process begins at the earliest stages of pre-conception and development, where decisions regarding product ingredients and formulation are directed by Coty’s internal guidance on acceptable usage of materials.

Particular attention is paid to avoiding or minimizing the use of HPIMs (High Profile Ingredients and Materials). Our scientific experts review credible academic research from a variety of sources and any decisions relating to the creation or reformulation of products are made accordingly.

We ensure that all our products are safe and have been developed, manufactured and packaged in compliance with the laws, regulations and guidelines applicable in each country in which they are sold.

Once on the market, we monitor the human safety of our products through consumer feedback. In case of health-related complaints or concerns, our global Cosmetovigilance group produces expert medical case assessments, trend analysis and feedback for product development, as well as reporting to authorities.

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Key Goals & Targets

We have reset our packaging targets in line with our new environmental baseline.

our goals & targets

ALL NEW PRODUCTS

As of 2020, include sustainability criteria in the conception of

100% RSPO

certified palm oil for our production sites by 2022, and TPMs by 2025.

100%

responsibly sourced Indian mica by 2030.