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EP272. Can beauty survive in a post-natu...

FORMULA BOTANICA
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Is the future of beauty really found in a lab? Or does true sustainability lie in the soil, the roots, and the traditional ways of working with nature?

In the final part of this thought-provoking four-part series, Formula Botanica CEO Lorraine Dallmeier looks ahead at the shifting definitions of sustainable beauty, and asks whether the next big divide won’t be natural vs synthetic, but harvested vs lab-grown.

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