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.
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 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.
REACH24H, Asia’s First ChemFORWARD Approved Assessor for Safer Chemistry
REACH24H, Asia’s First ChemFORWARD Approved Assessor for Safer Chemistry
ChemFORWARD Joins an NSF-Funded Project to Tackle "Forever Chemicals" with AI
ChemFORWARD Joins an NSF-Funded Project to Tackle "Forever Chemicals" with AI
ChemFORWARD Releases v2 Chemical Rating Guidance
Version 2 (v2) changes include a new D Hazard Band that enables organizations to identify chemicals of moderate to high hazard, including members of chemical classes of concern such as PFAS.
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.
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.
ChemFORWARD and SPC offer plastic producers free access to chemical additive safety tool
ChemFORWARD and SPC offer plastic producers free access to chemical additive safety tool
A tool to help plastics manufacturers identify safer additives is being made freely accessible to help accelerate the development of safer single use plastics and other recyclable materials.
Apple, Google, and ChemFORWARD join forces to drive support for safer flame retardants in the Electronics Sector
Apple, Google, and ChemFORWARD join forces to drive support for safer flame retardants in the Electronics Sector
ChemFORWARD, in collaboration with Apple and Google, is pleased to announce the availability of a comprehensive set of chemical hazard assessments for phosphorus-based and other non-halogenated flame retardants used in electronics. The goal of this work is to help companies move away from flame retardants with known health and environmental concerns towards those that are well characterized and verified to be safer.
ChemFORWARD’s Lauren Heine & Chris Bartlett to Present at the SOT 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
Lauren Heine, Ph. D., ChemFORWARD Co-Founder and Director of Science and Data Integrity, and Chris Bartlett, Ph.D, ChemFORWARD Lead Toxicologist, will be presenting at the Society of Toxicology 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo on Sunday, March 27th in San Diego, California.
INTRODUCING SAFER™ BY CHEMFORWARD
ChemFORWARD, a leader in creating broad access to chemical hazard data and safer alternatives, announced today the introduction of an exciting new program for raw material suppliers. ChemFORWARD’s SAFERTM program will verify their safer alternatives and amplify them as safer by trade name through leading B2B marketplaces. The program was co-designed with suppliers and retailers over the last two years to fill a critical gap in safety data.
ChemFORWARD helps Green Science Policy Institute Verify Safer Alternatives
ChemFORWARD Helps Target Support Diversity, Innovation with Chemicals Data for B3P Participants
ChemFORWARD is honored to work with Target to provide access to high quality, actionable information about chemical hazards and safer alternatives to diverse and woman-owned businesses through the retailer’s B3P program.
New, Free Tool Informs Better Food Packaging Purchasing
The Understanding Packaging (UP) Scorecard, led by the Single Use Materials Decelerator, provides a single measuring stick to food packaging buyers who must weigh claims such as compostable, recyclable, low-carbon and sustainable.
ChemFORWARD and GreenScreen Offer Aligned Outputs for Hazard Data: ToxServices
ChemFORWARD’s method of assessing chemical hazards and safer alternatives and GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals’ framework offer highly aligned and equivalent outputs. That’s according to a detailed comparison of results from applying the two methods that ToxServices’ Jennifer Tanir presented at the 2021 Society of Toxicology’s Annual Meeting last month.
In Conversation with Boma-Brown West: Pursuing a Unified Definition of Clean Beauty
“Clean” has grown to dominate the growth in the beauty sector, with prestige beauty brands claiming to be clean surging 39 percent in 2019 and doubling their share of high-end skincare sales in the last four years.
ChemFORWARD Executive Director Stacy Glass sat down to talk with Boma Brown-West, director of consumer health at Environmental Defense Fund. Brown-West is an engineer who works at the intersection of science, policy and corporate leadership to drive safer products in the retail marketplace. Glass leads a nongovernmental organization working to provide a shared database of chemical hazards and safer alternatives, allowing companies to use better information to make safer products.
EDF’s Clean Beauty Roadmap Offers Long-Needed Guide to Credible Claims of Safe Products
This roadmap is a clear framework for companies making clean beauty claims to restore and build confidence in their products. It equips them to move beyond the practice of claiming to be “free of” a group of hazards or restricted substances -- no matter how extensive -- and instead offer the credible assurance that ingredients have been thoroughly and credibly assessed and found to be free of hazards.
ChemFORWARD Applauds Apple, Target, and Sephora for Safe-Chemistry Leadership
ChemFORWARD applauds Toxic Free Future’s fifth Retailer Report Card, highlighting the great work by leaders in safer chemistry including the report card’s two A+ grades, earned by ChemFORWARD Co-design Partners Apple Inc., and Target Corp., along with Sephora, with an A grade representing the list’s biggest improvement over time.
Apple Joins ChemFORWARD as Co-Design Partner, Boosting Sustainable Tech Innovation
The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is one of the world’s most innovative in sustainability, leading initiatives on clean energy and no carbon footprint and working to source 100 percent recycled materials. The company’s Smarter Chemistry efforts include regulated substances specifications, toxicological assessments of materials selected for Apple products, and a protocol for prioritizing chemicals of concern in the electronics industry.