ChemFORWARD 10/22/24 ChemFORWARD 10/22/24

Safer Ingredients Make Strides in the Beauty Industry, but Challenges Remain

New report quantifies the use of safer chemistry in consumer products, moving beyond “bad lists” to set a new standard for accountability

ChemFORWARD released the first "Beauty & Personal Care Ingredient Intelligence Report.” The report, which analyzed 8,500 products, showcases the groundbreaking collaboration among major beauty retailers, brands, and ingredient suppliers, including Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Credo, Beautycounter, The Honest Company, Inolex, and Dow, to define a standard for safer chemistry and measure progress.

ChemFORWARD 10/15/24 ChemFORWARD 10/15/24

Venebio Joins ChemFORWARD’s Approved Assessor Program

ChemFORWARD expands its Approved Assessor Network with the addition of Venebio, a leading provider of scientific and regulatory support for product safety. Their team of experts provides end-to-end safety support from raw ingredient safety assessments to post-market surveillance. The growth of the Assessor Network highlights the growing demand for comprehensive chemical hazard assessments to inform safer substitution across multiple sectors.

ChemFORWARD 10/7/24 ChemFORWARD 10/7/24

ChemFORWARD Welcomes Rachel Simon as Senior Manager Safer Chemistry

ChemFORWARD is pleased to introduce Rachel Simon as our new Senior Manager, Safer Chemistry. In this role, Rachel will play a key part in ChemFORWARD's mission to transform global supply chains by providing accessible and actionable chemical hazard data. Her key focus will be leading ChemFORWARD's Electronics Safer Chemistry Collaborative, driving initiatives to identify safer alternatives in the electronics sector. Rachel brings to ChemFORWARD over fifteen years of experience in sustainability as well as a deep understanding of chemical hazard assessment and safer alternatives, with particular expertise in the electronics sector.

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ChemFORWARD Provides Evidence to ECHA of Safer Flame Retardants

ChemFORWARD submits comments to ECHA’s call for evidence on alternatives to aromatic brominated flame retardants highlighting more than 35 potential safer functional alternatives.

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Making proactive safer chemistry a standard operating procedure

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Samsung Joins ChemFORWARD’s Electronics Safer Chemistry Collaborative

ChemFORWARD is pleased to share that Samsung has joined our Electronics Safer Chemistry Collaborative. Samsung joins fellow collaborative members Apple, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Sonos, Microsoft, Amazon, and Seagate.

Loop Creative 9/6/23 Loop Creative 9/6/23

Gabrielle Rigutto Joins ChemFORWARD as Research & Data Quality Specialist

Loop Creative 7/21/23 Loop Creative 7/21/23

Introducing CleanPackage: Supporting Safe + Circular Materials for Packaging

As packaging design advances to support recyclability and compostability, safe building blocks can be hard to pinpoint and hazardous chemicals can be difficult to avoid. To help companies tackle this challenge, The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) is excited to launch CleanPackage, a database of verified safer alternative packaging materials.

ChemFORWARD 5/23/23 ChemFORWARD 5/23/23

Groundbreaking collaboration between leading cosmetics companies will advance safer chemistry for the beauty sector

ChemFORWARD, a science-based, nonprofit organization, announces "Know Better, Do Better," the first-of-its kind collaboration of industry-leading beauty companies Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Credo, Beautycounter, and The Honest Company, as well as ingredient designer Inolex and the global nonprofit organization Environmental Defense Fund. These stakeholders are banding together to promote the use of safer chemistry and improve chemical hazard data to enable informed decision making.

Loop Creative 4/24/23 Loop Creative 4/24/23

ChemFORWARD Shares Safe + Circular Packaging Materials Pilot Results

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ChemFORWARD Partners with Apple to share Safer Chemistry Resources

APRIL 6, 2023 - ChemFORWARD, a science-based non-profit organization, has partnered with Apple to scale the adoption of safer chemistry used in electronics assembly worldwide. A new website, www.ChemWorks.org, provides free access to identify certified safer formulations as well as resources for formulators to screen and optimize their products with verified safer chemicals.

Loop Creative 4/5/23 Loop Creative 4/5/23

Ahlstrom’s Cristal® Transparent Packaging papers achieve SAFER™ Designation, helping brands demonstrate human and environmental safety

Loop Creative 1/31/23 Loop Creative 1/31/23

ChemFORWARD Releases v1 Botanicals Hazard Assessment Methodology

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News Release: Over 40 Inolex Products Verified SAFER™ by ChemFORWARD

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ICYMI: “Beyond PFAS-free Packaging” Webinar Recap

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) and ChemFORWARD recently shared the initial results from the Safe + Circular Materials Collaborative. This year-long supply chain collaboration explored the challenges of circular packaging and solutions to accelerate the transition to safer alternatives.

ChemFORWARD 11/3/22 ChemFORWARD 11/3/22

ChemFORWARD Speaking Engagements

ChemFORWARD has been invited to speak at several conferences this Fall. You can find all the details below. If you are attending any of these events please reach out and connect with us or attend our session as we share specifics about what ChemFORWARD is doing to accelerate the elimination of toxic chemicals and transition to safer chemistry in multiple sectors.

Loop Creative 11/1/22 Loop Creative 11/1/22

The Honest Company Partners with ChemFORWARD to Co-Design the Future of Science-Based Home & Personal Care

Loop Creative 10/11/22 Loop Creative 10/11/22

Beautycounter Joins ChemFORWARD as Co-Design Partner to Collaboratively Advance Safer Chemistry for All

Beautycounter is bringing their commitment and experience in sourcing and formulating products that protect both people and the planet to the collaborative work of scaling greater transparency and safer chemistry throughout the industry as a ChemFORWARD co-design partner.

Loop Creative 9/15/22 Loop Creative 9/15/22

ChemFORWARD’s Plastic Additives Optimization Tool Expands to Include Trade Name Materials - still freely available!

Since its launch in April, ChemFORWARD’s free Plastic Additive Optimization Tool has helped hundreds of formulators and designers check the chemical hazard profile of over 1100 plastic additives and find safer alternatives.

Loop Creative 9/13/22 Loop Creative 9/13/22

BASF Plasticizers Achieve Rigorous SAFER™ Designation

Five BASF plasticizers have met ChemFORWARD’s rigorous evaluation of human health and environmental criteria for preferred alternatives through the organization’s SAFER program.