Ocean bound plastic recovered thanks to Esse Skincare

Although we are a long way from perfect, we package our products elegantly in materials that are as close to indefinitely recyclable as possible. We aim to show that organic and environmentally sustainable products can deliver results in an aesthetically powerful way.

Why Plastic Neutrality?

Esse currently buys carbon credits to offset its carbon emissions. That means that we are carbon neutral as a company. We cover the carbon emitted in the production processes behind our packaging and raw materials<br /><br /> we cover the carbon emitted in our employees travel and our use of power at the factory to produce the finished product. We also cover the carbon emitted in the transport of our products to Europe and Hong Kong … but there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye.

Our climate action

Our CleanHubs span 3 continents and are located in some of the world’s worst plastic pollution hotspots. Currently, more than 2 billion people dispose of their trash in nature because no one collects it. Your support means our global CleanHubs connect people  in coastal communities to waste collection, preventing plastic from ever polluting our environment. The waste collection you support is door-to-door, or directly from beaches or rivers, creating safe and dignified jobs with fair pay and opportunities.

Our Clean Kerala hub works with collection partner, Greens Worms Waste Management to organize door-to-door collection services across southern India, with the help of women empowerment groups.

Green Worm Sorting

Our Clean North Sulawesi Hub is supported on the ground by No-Trash Triangle. No-Trash Triangle helps prevent plastic pollution in the Coral Triangle, one of the most biodiverse marine environments in South-East Asia.

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Our Clean Goa Hub is supported by vRecycle. vRecycle collects all plastics from households in Southern Goa.  Together, we help over 25K homes manage their waste self-sufficiently and have built more than 2K composters and 200 community recycling points.

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CleanHub collection partner, Greens Worms Waste Management organizes door-to-door collection services across India.

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Our Clean Bali Hub is supported on the ground by ecoBali, which was founded on the idea of 'getting responsible with waste' due to the lack of waste management in Bali and is working toward a more circular approach.

EcoBali Collection

Our Clean Pondicherry Hub is supported on the ground by Recity. Recity was founded to keep plastics out of the environment, and is creating a circular economy - enabling value-chain collaborations between brands and consumers

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Portfolio

Two billion people in coastal regions don’t have access to proper waste management. Trash is either openly burned, dumped, or piled onto poorly managed landfills, destined to impact our climate.

Waste management systems prevent trash from ever leaking into nature or being burnt under the open sky.

Esse Skincare's strategy for positive change

Impact progress

We recycle, where we can, our plastics, cardboard and paper at our production facility in Richmond. We separate our compostable waste and use them in our gardens. We have reduced the amount of carton grammage on all our Esse products as well as making sure we use an aqua varnish and as recycled a board on the products. We use glass, where possible, for our products. We are looking at thermoformed cartons for a portion of our range.

Esse Skincare's plastic sustainability report

How we’re protecting oceans from plastic waste

At Esse Skincare, we're proud to say that our partnership with CleanHub is preventing 38,500 kg of plastic waste from ending up in landfills, open environments, or our oceans.

Our sustainability commitment at Esse Skincare

Why we act on plastic

More than
2 billion people worldwide
dispose of their trash in nature because there are no waste collection services.

This year we're supporting these sustainability projects

How we support local communities

By working with CleanHub, we’re making sure 38,500 kg of plastic will never end up in our oceans. 🙌