Advancing our Health Lives Mission with sustainable packaging for your favorite skin health products

At Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health, we're investing a lot of time to make our iconic products more sustainable. The truth is: it isn't easy, and it will always be a work in progress!

The process is fraught with tensions about supply chain readiness, cost challenges, and formulation complexity, not to mention changing a product that millions of people love and rely on every day. Yes, it’s hard, but we are inspired by the challenge of our mission to bring consumers healthier skin and a healthier environment!

I love this quote that one of my colleagues shared recently. The fact is that improving sustainability will always be a work in progress but setting ambitious goals - like our Healthy Lives Mission, which was announced in September last year - pushes all of us to achieve greater benefits for the people, communities, and our planet.?

A quote by Anne Marie Bonneau, author of The Zero Waste Chef, sums up perfectly what we should be focusing on -- small efforts towards a big impact

?Our Skin Health team has made incredible progress towards our goals, one step at a time, over the past year. Across our brands, from AVEENO? to NEUTROGENA??to LE PETIT MARSEILLAIS?, we are developing new product packaging to reduce waste while providing consumers with easy-to-use formats for their favorite products.

We are moving towards recyclable, reusable, or compostable materials in our packaging. Here’s an example: AVEENO? is soon to launch our first refillable format for body wash using the same trusted formula that consumers love and packaging it in a refill format that uses 80% less plastic than our 33oz bottle. The refill package is made using 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) material and includes three additional ounces of wash for consumers. In China, we recently launched our first AVEENO? PCR material tube in our new range of Hand Creams. This is just the beginning of our journey to elevate AVEENO? to better meet consumer expectations for ethically sourced, clean, and sustainable products.

Our NEUTROGENA? brand is leading the way in our U.S home market, upgrading our best-selling Make-up Remover Wipes line using a new improved formula without parabens, alcohol, sulfates, phthalates, soaps, and dyes, and with an ultra-soft 100% plant-based and compostable cloth. The best part is that the product continues to offer superior make-up removal efficacy, which effectively lifts away up to 99% of make-up, including all traces of waterproof mascara and long-wearing makeup.

In Asia, the NEUTROGENA? team recently launched an upgrade to our classic Deep Clean Foaming Cleanser with a clean formulation that is dermatologist-tested and utilizing ingredients that are designed even for sensitive skin. It also has a new packaging featuring an eco-cap that uses 15% less plastic, which in turn delivers 25 tons of plastic reduction annually. Around the world, we continue to upgrade our NEUTROGENA? Face Care product lines, including removing plastic windows in cartons and upgrading packaging to be recycle-ready and include PCR materials in our packaging design.

In Latin America, the team has delivered advancements across our brand portfolio, upgrading to 30% PCR into its carton packaging composition, reducing the total consumption of paper in the manufacture of packaging by 10%.

Perhaps the most exciting of our sustainability initiatives this quarter is from LE PETIT MARSEILLAIS? as part of the brand’s mission to be a leader in natural, eco-conscious skin care. This month the team has launched our first 3-in-1 Solid Care, delivering an all-in-one solution for body, face and hair cleansing. The formula exemplifies our ambition to provide ingenious solutions for healthier people and the planet; just one bar delivers the efficiency of two bottles of wash. The formula is 99% biodegradable and requires ~70% less water. The packaging is 100% recyclable and uses FSC-certified cardboard and vegetal inks.

A sustainable future for Skin Health starts with our brands, our people, and our purpose. I’m so proud of the progress we’ve made as one team and thank you to many of our colleagues who have worked tirelessly to make our brands sustainable for consumers now and into the future. I’m excited to see our continued growth and leadership in advancing our Health Lives Mission.