‘Clean Beauty’ showcases cosmetics and personal care products that are free from all Watsons' restricted ingredients list, and are additionally designed to reduce environmental impact through their formulations or packaging.
‘Refill Reuse Replace’ products help reduce waste by enabling customers to refill an original packaging, reuse a full product, or replace only part of the packaging or product instead of discarding it.
Refill
Promote the reuse of a full original packaging, to reduce packaging waste.
Reuse
Promote the reuse of a full original product, to reduce waste.
Replace
Promote the reuse of part of an original packaging or part of an original product, to reduce waste.
At Watsons, we promote products made with responsibly sourced ingredients and materials, while reducing the use of virgin resources. These criteria help ensure our products support responsibly managed forests and plantations, and make use of recycled materials whenever possible.
Better Ingredients
Sustainable Palm Oil
Products containing palm oil or palm derived ingredients must either be fully RSPO certified or include a minimum of 50% RSPO certified sustainable palm oil/derivatives, promoting the use of palm oil from responsibly managed plantations.
Products containing palm oil or palm derived ingredients must either be fully RSPO certified or include a minimum of 50% RSPO certified sustainable palm oil/derivatives, promoting the use of palm oil from responsibly managed plantations.
Better Materials
Sustainable Paper
Paper must be 100% FSC/PEFC certified or contain a minimum of 50% recycled content.
Paper must be 100% FSC/PEFC certified or contain a minimum of 50% recycled content.
Reduced Virgin Plastic Content
Reducing or substituting virgin plastic in product components by using more sustainable materials—such as bamboo, or FSC/PEFC certified wood—or by incorporating recycled plastic content.
For formulated products like wet tissues or facial masks, the fabric must be made from 100% plant-based materials.
Reducing or substituting virgin plastic in product components by using more sustainable materials—such as bamboo, or FSC/PEFC certified wood—or by incorporating recycled plastic content.
For formulated products like wet tissues or facial masks, the fabric must be made from 100% plant-based materials.
We promote the use of packaging materials that help reduce environmental impact—such as FSC or PEFC certified paper, recycled content, or plastic free designs. These criteria ensure that eligible products use packaging from responsibly managed forests or make use of recycled materials whenever possible.
Recycled content uses fewer virgin materials by using recycled materials instead. Packaging is made with either recycled plastic, metal or glass.
Sustainable paper is made from responsibly managed forests, or with a minimum of 50% recycled paper content.
“No plastic packaging” promotes products with zero inner and outer plastic packaging wherever plastic packaging is mainstream in the market.
“Innovator” promotes packaging that introduces a novel packaging material and/or design, ahead of brand’s competitors in its product category or industry.
