Mission & Goals

The Home & Personal Care Sector represents products that we use daily to clean, preserve, and improve the beauty of our bodies, our homes, and our possessions. In standardizing the way companies create, validate and communicate sustainability information to the consumer and retail buyer of home and personal care products, The Sustainability Consortium and its partners will reduce confusion in product labeling, prevent false claims and foster a marketplace where true product innovations will be rewarded.

Scope

The Sector was formed in September of 2009 and has grown to include manufacturers, suppliers and retailers. Home and Personal Care products can be found in nearly every home in the developed world and are rapidly growing in popularity among developing regions such as China, India and Brazil making the benefit globally relevant and our timing extremely important to long term sustainable growth.

Research

The Sector funds research on important cross- cutting topics that are crucial to advancing sustainability of the chemical-based consumer products industry. Topics range from understanding how raw materials and chemical processing can aid in lowering the environmental footprint of products, to developing a richer understanding between consumer perceptions, purchasing decisions and user behaviors related to sustainability.

Projects

Home and Personal Care Sector Research Compendium

A synthesis of the current state of knowledge and efforts related to home and personal care product sustainability and implications for current Consortium work and future research agendas.

Home and Personal Care Sustainability Measurement and Reporting Standard (H&PC SMRS)

Standardized method to evaluate and report product life cycle information for home and personal care products. The Working Group is divided further into fully active Product Committees addressing the specifics related to the following product families:

• Laundry Care
• Household Cleaners
• Beauty and Personal Care
• Cleaning Peripherals

Participants

• 3M
• Alberto-Culver
• American Chemistry Council
• Arizona State University
• BASF
• Burt’s Bees
• Church & Dwight
• Clorox
• Colgate-Palmolive
• Danisco
• Earth Friendly Products
• Ecolab
• EPA
• Georgia Pacific
• Henkel
• Johnson & Johnson
• KIK Corporation
• L’Oreal
• Novozymes
• NSF International
• Procter & Gamble
• Royal Ahold
• SC Johnson
• Seventh Generation
• Sun Products
• Unilever
• Walmart