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Jun 2025

9m 8s

EP270. Why ‘sustainable beauty’ isn’t su...

FORMULA BOTANICA

About this episode

These days, everything in beauty is “more sustainable.” More sustainable packaging. More sustainable formulas. More sustainable choices. But if everything is claiming to be sustainable… is anything really sustainable at all?

In this second episode of her exclusive 4-part series, Formula Botanica CEO, Chartered Environmentalist and Biologist Lorraine Dallmeier takes a hard look at the beauty industry’s most overused word.

Tune in now to find out what sustainability really means in beauty today.

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Free formulation course | Green Beauty Conversations Podcast | Blog | YouTube

Socials: Formula Botanica on Instagram | Lorraine Dallmeier on Instagram

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