More Than Skin Deep: A Service Design Approach to Making the Luxury Personal Care Industry More Sustainable

Wakefield-Rann, Rachael

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2917-2_10

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“…There is a growing recognition that packaging designs that are not environmentally sustainable are a thing of the past. However, most cosmetics currently on the market are still packaged in single-use plastic containers (Gatt & Refalo, 2022;Lofthouse et al, 2017;Ren, Zhang, & Gao, 2022;Wakefield-Rann, 2017;Willskytt, 2021). As a measure against the loss of resources and the emissions caused by production and disposal, the Packaging Directive 94/62/EC was adopted in the European Union in 2021 (Aguiar et al, 2022).…”

Section: Packaging Design In the Cosmetics Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dissolvable packaging is another concept (Willskytt, 2021). One example of this sales strategy is the company LUSH, which claims to sell 65% of its products 'naked' and also uses this strategy in marketing campaigns (Aguiar et al, 2022;Gatt & Refalo, 2022;Sahota, 2013;Wakefield-Rann, 2017). This has enabled them to save more than 450,000 litres of water per year compared to liquid shampoos (Aguiar et al, 2022;Wakefield-Rann, 2017).…”

Section: Refusementioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Circular Packaging Design: A Systematic Literature Review on Strategies and Applications in the Cosmetics Industry

Kaestner,

Scope,

Neumann

et al. 2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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Packaging protects products, keeps their value and reduces waste. This is especially crucial in domains with perishable goods such as food, medicine or cosmetics. But conventional packaging solutions yield negative environmental impacts. In the EU, the largest share of plastics is used for packaging, causing a corresponding footprint. The application of sustainable strategies to packaging should help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and promote the development of sustainable consumption. In this paper, a review is conducted on research that brings together circular economy, packaging design and cosmetics industry, by systematic literature review and content analysis. In addition to the current standards of conventional packaging, packaging alternatives are presented, which are categorised according to the R-strategies Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

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Section: Packaging Design In the Cosmetics Sectormentioning

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Section: Refusementioning

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Sustainable Circular Packaging Design: A Systematic Literature Review on Strategies and Applications in the Cosmetics Industry

Kaestner,

Scope,

Neumann

et al. 2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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“…Antibacterial chemical sprays and wipes generally offer the most convenient options for dealing with the perpetual mess generated by young children, particularly if one is already busy. These products are also imbued with sensory attributes designed to reassure users they are effectively cleaning, such as scent (e.g., lemon and pine), and lather and shine, all of which are achieved through the addition of chemicals (Wakefield-Rann, 2017).…”

Section: Hygiene Outcomes and Competition Within Complexes Of Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Indoor spaces have not traditionally been considered the domain of human ecology. They have been the subject of cultural, architectural, and sociological inquiry, and more recently the site at which various pathogenic or toxic encounters may be studied; yet, these concerns have rarely been investigated as part of one unified and codependent ecology. This special issue aims to remedy this dislocation by beginning a conversation between a range of disciplinary perspectives concerned with the indoors. This ambition is not only linked to a desire to articulate and connect multiple interacting variables operative in indoor spaces, but also to address both a number of factors that are increasingly creating indoor environmental conditions that are suboptimal for human habitation, and the broader more-thanhuman ecosystems in which they are situated. Although certainly not exhaustive in scope, the research presented in this special issue provides an exemplary profile of situated knowledge that must form the basis of future, integrative, transdisciplinary research into indoor ecologies. Spanning design, architecture, social and human ecology, environmental psychology, sociology, mycology, biotechnology, spatial sciences, statistics, engineering, philosophy, and "lay" and experiential knowledge perspectives, this special issue uncovers a number of the challenges and fertile points of overlap across epistemological approaches and areas of concern within the indoors. The goal of this issue is to highlight the points of divergence, and, more crucially, the points of convergence from which a new transdisciplinary approach to indoor research can emerge.

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“…Above basic sanitation, higher standards of cleanliness are more to do with status and boundaries and give diminishing returns on quality of life (Ger and Yenicioglu, 2004). Meanwhile using products related to cleanliness can in fact be bad for health (Wakefield-Rann, 2017), especially cleaning chemicals when combined and interacting with each other (Nazaroff and Weschler, 2004). Furthermore, access to cleanliness infrastructures is different for different groups and thus attaining increasing standards is more challenging for social groups that have unequal access to resources and may already be facing disadvantages, leading also to social stratification.…”

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Representations – A critical look at media’s role in cleanliness conventions and inconspicuous consumption

Jack

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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In post-industrialist societies, similar high standards of living are becoming not only desired but also expected the world over. Globalising processes ensure that every material desire is within the reach of ordinary citizens, and then flame these desires in order to sustain continuous growth narratives. But are increasingly resource-intensive lifestyles sustainable, or even desirable? This article investigates cleanliness using representations in media to understand how practices – including washing, disinfecting and sanitising – have become increasingly normal. Five popular Swedish magazines from 1985 to 2015 are used to track the representations of cleanliness. Idealisation, shame and medicalisation are the main themes arising from this data set. These themes aim to perpetuate higher cleanliness conventions and translate them into consumer goods. The article is inspired by a critical theoretical perspective which helps to reveal inequalities perpetuated by the way media represents cleanliness and suggests that the imperative to clean falls most heavily on those who lack the resources to resist. Processes of inclusion and exclusion are inherent in consumer culture and this attempt at using critical theory to understand consumption practices illuminates consumption’s role in not only increasing pressure on the natural environment but also amplifying social stratification.

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More Than Skin Deep: A Service Design Approach to Making the Luxury Personal Care Industry More Sustainable

Cited by 8 publications

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Sustainable Circular Packaging Design: A Systematic Literature Review on Strategies and Applications in the Cosmetics Industry

Sustainable Circular Packaging Design: A Systematic Literature Review on Strategies and Applications in the Cosmetics Industry

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