Babaria - Commit for Our Planet

Babaria

Our mission is to take care of people and the planet. We strive to reduce the environmental impact of our activity from the purchase of raw materials to the manufacturing and distribution of our products as well as the use and disposal of containers and packaging. We work to reduce the carbon footprint.

Our company Babaria is committed to creating sustainable products for consumers. We strive to be an example to follow in terms of 360° sustainability. We also recognize the importance of transparency and innovation in the perfume and cosmetics industry. The collaboration with the European initiative ‘Commit for Our Planet’ gives us the opportunity to exchange valuable knowledge and experience to drive positive change in our industry. We look forward to actively contributing to and learning from other industry leaders who share our vision of a more sustainable and accessible future for all.

David Arregui, CEO Babaria

Climate

Commitment: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

We have been measuring and working to reduce scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions since 2018, by reducing non-renewable energy consumption and reducing the carbon intensity of energy sources. Specifically, we aim to reduce electricity consumption by 30% by generating 30% of our total energy consumed with own photovoltaic plants by 2025.

Packaging

Commitment: Promote packaging recycling

We communicate – throughout our website and social media according to our values and sustainability criteria – to promote consciousness of and the responsibility for recycling product packaging in Spain and our subsidiaries (Colombia, Perú, Mexico and USA) and try to extend our message to the more than 50 countries where we are present. Our commitment is to continue these actions in line with local recycling schemes and to continue developing effective and credible communication campaigns to end consumers to maximise consumer recycling of cosmetics packaging and to raise awareness on the importance of recycling by 2025.

Nature

Commitment: Act for nature within operations

We measure our water consumption and aim for a 5% reduction by 2025. To do this, we will optimise production batches, maximising Kg to be packaged and minimising changes and cleaning to reduce water consumption.

We also measure (non-hazardous) waste generated in our offices and industrial plant, and by 2025, we aim for a 15% reduction in kg of waste generated. To do this, we will stabilise the number of container/compactor movements, which would indicate a better use of loading equipment.

On the other hand, we will reduce by 10% the hazardous waste generated by 2025 through best practices such as a change in cleaning alcohol residue treatment. Instead of discarding it as waste, we send it to distillation to then bring it back to the factory and be used again.

Commitment: Act for nature through sustainable ingredient sourcing

We commit to conducting an analysis of upstream nature-related risks to identify risk critical ingredients using the Cosmetics Europe database by 2025. For identified priority ingredients, we will set up internal processes to investigate ingredient traceability up to farm level, engaging with suppliers by 2030.