Upcycled Ingredients
Part of our sustainability mission is the way we source our ingredients. Upcycled ingredients are those that would have otherwise gone to waste but have instead been used in our products. Check out our upcycled ingredients:
A message from Graydon
Our mission to give you good skin days, every day, is about more than feeling good about your skin. It’s also about feeling good about the skincare brand you use.
We want you to feel good knowing that we’re committed to helping you shop with confidence. From innovative packaging and local production to third-party ingredient verifications and carbon-offsetting, we’re introducing sustainability and transparency initiatives to help make beauty better.
Learn more about our sustainability and transparency initiatives in our Mindful Beauty Magazine.
Sustainable Packaging
A large part of building a sustainable beauty industry is in the packaging we create and ship, ensuring that its materials come from sustainable sources and can be recycled when reaching the end of its life.
Our Intimacy Oil and Face Food bottles are now made from 50% PCR (Post Consumer Recycled Resin) and are fully recyclable.
Our boxes have become even more sustainable when we removed silver foil and laminates and began producing them locally, further reducing their CO2 impact. The pulp for the boxes are certified to never come from old growth forests.
The Last Mile
While we’re working hard to improve our product packaging, we recognize that many components of beauty product packaging cannot be recycled through your curbside recycling program. These include pumps, caps, droppers and black plastics. Because we’re striving towards 100% recyclable packaging, we’ve partnered with Pact. This non-profit collective is working to make the beauty industry more circular by providing solutions for hard-to-recycle packaging.
Drop off your empties at a Hudson's Bay or Credo Pact box near you.
Pact's Mail-Back Program
If an in-store drop-off isn’t possible, we encourage you to participate in Pact's Mail-Back Program.
- Once you have finished using your beauty products, set any hard-to-recycle components aside. See Pact’s Collection Guidelines for more information.
- Place 5–10 components from any brand into a box or envelope. Reuse one if possible!
- Print your shipping label and mail your package.
All you have to do is pay a small $5 shipping fee and we’ll pay for the recycling cost!
You’ll also receive a $5 off discount code to apply towards your next purchase. It’s our way of saying thank you for helping us to improve circularity in the beauty industry and take better care of our planet.
Carbon Offsetting
Our online store automatically calculates the shipping emissions, and ensures high-quality carbon removal to neutralize your shipping footprint. We take into account shipping distance, package weight, and mode of transportation, all the factors that affect a delivery’s emissions.
Our Partnership with Ocean Legacy
The Ocean Legacy Foundation (OLF) is a globally-recognized, non-profit organization based in British Columbia, Canada, that is committed to ending ocean plastic waste.
We’re proud to donate $1 to the Ocean Legacy Foundation for every 30 mL bottle of Fullmoon Serum we sell. This money will be used to help fund cleanups in ecologically sensitive regions and reduce the amount of plastic that is harming our planet. Click here to learn more.
Accountability
What is Provenance?
Provenance® powers sustainability claims you can trust. The global leader in sustainability marketing technology, Provenance® exists to drive positive change through transparency. They're protecting shoppers from greenwashing using their Proof Point technology, connecting 'green' claims to evidence from the supply chain or third-party verification.
How do we work with Provenance?
Provenance® is helping Graydon Skincare share credible, compelling and fact-checked social and environmental impact information with brand and product Proof Points. Proof Points are interactive icons representing a claim about a business or product. Each Proof Point is part of the Provenance Framework, a collection of 50+ jargon-free claims about social and environmental impact.
Ingredient Transparency
The ingredient lists on our product pages are presented in a unique way. Skinfo adds scientific, third-party verified, objective descriptions of each ingredient, displays the purpose in the formula and provides the origin (plant-based, synthetic, mineral, etc). We hope that this gives you confidence in our ingredients.