Prose

Sustainability Story

As a company built on personal care, we have a mandate to care for the planet too. Our goal is to give back more than we take - to make a positive impact on our customers, our suppliers, and the earth itself. We continue to cut carbon emissions and have offset the rest through strategic investments in regenerative farms and energy efficiency. We are the first and only carbon-neutral custom beauty brand and achieved climate neutrality in September 2021.

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What is Climate Neutrality

A state in which human activities result in no net effect on the climate system. Requires balancing of residual greenhouse gas emissions with reductions or removals. All Climate Neutral Certified brands must meet climate neutrality standards for measuring, offsetting, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from making and delivering products and services.

This certification covers business activities and operations for the following brands :

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Prose achieved Climate Neutral Certification as part of 's certification process. 's measurement, offsetting and reduction plans fully account for Prose's 2021 emissions

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01 Measure

Prose measured Scope 1, 2 and 3 cradle-to-customer emissions following categories and approaches established in the Climate Neutral standards.

GHG Scope 1

GHG Protocol Scope 1

Emissions from energy used in buildings, fleets, and equipment.

6 tCO2e

797 tCO2e

GHG Scope 3

GHG Protocol Scope 3

Emissions from raw materials, manufacturing, shipping, air travel, and other activities in the supply chain.

14,525 tCO2e

Total Emissions

Total Carbon Emissions

The sum of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

15,328 tCO2e

02 Offset

Prose invested in projects outside of their value chain to compensate for all of their measured carbon emissions. This step supports their climate neutrality designation, and enables Prose to take responsibility for historical emissions that can’t be reduced.

Total Investment in Carbon Credits

$183,936.00

Prose's credits came from:

Emissions Offset

Offset equivalency

For reference, reducing a footprint by 1000 tonnes is roughly equal to removing 230 passenger vehicles from the road for a year.

15,328 tCO2e

Lifetime Emissions Offsets

tCO2e

03 Reduce

Prose has set targets and identified actions to reduce their emissions from operations and their supply chain. These actions will enable Prose to emit fewer emissions in the future.

Mid Term Targets

Prose has committed to reducing 2020 emissions 33% by 2030.

This target is aligned with global trajectories to limit climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Mid Term Targets

This target is aligned with global trajectories to limit climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Reduction Actions

Prose is implementing a Reduction Action Plan to reduce emissions from within its own operations and supply chain.

Current Year Reduction Actions

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce our Downstream Transportation emissions through changing the mode of transportation for all outbound orders to customers.

How We'll Reduce It

All outbound orders will now be transported strictly through ground transportation, rather than air transportation, while maintaining service level agreements as to lead time to customers.

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing sources for raw materials as well as better vetting our current and future suppliers.

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to utilize Ecovadis, a new partnership that will help us in understanding the sustainability context of our suppliers, and allow us to make easier choices when switching or adding suppliers. We will localize more components of our supply chain.

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing suppliers as well as certain systems for our purchased goods.

How We'll Reduce It

We will switch our current bottles from PET plastic to PCR plastic. Our supply for our labels, bottles, packaging, and jars will all be localized to relieve emissions. We will be putting into place a forced pump opt-out, encouraging pump reuse.

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to reduce our Downstream Transportation emissions through changing the mode of transportation for all outbound orders to customers.
We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing sources for raw materials as well as better vetting our current and future suppliers.
We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing suppliers as well as certain systems for our purchased goods.

In Progress Reductions

100%

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce upstream freight emissions through the movement of our Dry Shampoo Sourcing from Europe to the United States.

How We'll Reduce It

We will look for responsible suppliers/vendors stateside and take into consideration critical factors such as proximity to our warehouse, supplier best practices, and the use of natural /non toxic ingredients as we make this transition.

100%

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce emissions by decreasing upstream freight for our purchased goods and raw materials.

How We'll Reduce It

We will move our Label Supplier from a European based vendor to a United States based Vendor.

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to reduce our Downstream Transportation emissions through changing the mode of transportation for all outbound orders to customers.
We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing sources for raw materials as well as better vetting our current and future suppliers.
We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing suppliers as well as certain systems for our purchased goods.

Completed Reductions