Credo Beauty Joins ChemFORWARD as Codesign Partner, Accelerating Supply Chain Transformation
Credo Beauty Joins ChemFORWARD as Codesign Partner, Accelerating Supply Chain Transformation
Credo Beauty has agreed to work with ChemFORWARD as a Codesign Partner, contributing Credo’s leadership and expertise to ChemFORWARD’s efforts to build the most useful, trusted repository of data on chemical hazards and safer alternatives.
Through the partnership, ChemFORWARD has included Credo’s expansive restricted substances list, known as The Dirty List™, in its database, offering ChemFORWARD subscribers the biggest list anyone has ever created of ingredients linked to health or environmental issues used in the industry.
While companies are responding to the lack of chemical safety regulation in the U.S. with their own policies, they often struggle to determine which materials are actually preferable. The partnership will facilitate Credo’s collaboration with its brands to boosting supply chain transparency, adoption of chemical management, assessment and safer substitution.
“Credo connects our brand partners and product formulators with platforms like ChemFORWARD so that they can comply with The Dirty List™, and go beyond it,” said Mia Davis, director of environmental and social responsibility at Credo. “We want products on our shelves to use ingredients that have been assessed for safety and environmental impact. ChemFORWARD’s makes it easier for our brands to manage chemicals and improve products for their customers and the planet. This is next-level clean beauty. "
Credo, the world’s largest clean-beauty retailer, has stores across the U.S., and partners with more than 130 retailers to provide beauty and personal care products which meet Credo’s exacting Clean Standard™, creating safer, more sustainable, ethical and transparent products.
“Adding The Dirty List™ to our globally harmonized repository of safer alternatives makes it even easier for brands, formulators and other decisionmakers in beauty and personal care to eliminate chemicals of concern, avoid regrettable substitutions and design safer from the beginning,” said Stacy Glass, ChemFORWARD’s executive director. “By strengthening our work with the partnership of a leader like Credo’s, we can make even more progress toward ending toxic chemical exposure and advancing health equity.”
Codesign Partners are a key element of ChemFORWARD’s work to unlock chemical hazard assessment data, employing a user-centered approach to realize the vision of enabling a prosperous future for all people, the planet and commerce using better chemistry.
ChemFORWARD’s Codesign Partners are leaders from diverse industries including electronics, fashion, retail and building products. They share a commitment to creating a marketplace where chemistry is safer and the potential of circular design is fully realized. Credo’s participation will amplify and accelerate the transformation of affordable, trustworthy, verified and actionable chemical-hazard data, offering a platform for informed decision-making that has never before been available.
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