Sustainability Cosmetics Summit 2026: packaging solutions that meet sustainability needs
Cosmetics packaging is asked to do three things at once: protect the formula, express the brand, and meet regulation that is tightening each year. It was this combination of factors that brought us to Paris on 27-28 October as a Silver Sponsor of the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit, and that prompted Monica Battistella, Business Development Team Manager at Taghleef Industries, to share our experience by presenting “Packaging Solutions to Meet Sustainability Needs.”
The regulatory clock is already running
Under the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), cosmetics fall into the “contact-sensitive” category. Plastic components that make up 5% or more of a pack by weight of package made of plastic packaging containing PP will need minimum post-consumer recycled content: 10% from 2030, rising to 25% in 2040. Recyclability requirements also begin in 2030, and from 2038 only the two highest recyclability classes (A and B) will be allowed on the market. For brands, 2030 is a very near planning horizon.
What consumers are telling brands
Wellness is now seen as holistic, covering physical health, mental well-being, ethics, and sustainability, so consumers expect brands to reflect all of it. Premiumization favors discreet luxury and accessible prestige, where authenticity and the quality of materials are communicated through touch as much as sight. Color, image, shape, size and wording carry brand values before a product is even opened. And labels have to earn trust: shoppers choose brands that reflect their values, so health and sustainability claims appeal to them, but only transparent claims build loyalty.
How does Taghleef respond?
Thanks to the reDESIGN™ approach, a personalized consulting service that enables the transition to high-performing and environmentally friendly solutions aligned with circular economy principles, many traditional structures in the sector can be redesigned.
Among the solutions presented at the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit are stand-up pouches with graphics designed for cosmetics, as well as packaging for face masks, made with PP-based structures designed to ensure recyclability. NATIVIA® and reLIFE™ solutions for labels and other applications. Both are produced under ISCC PLUS certification scheme, using a mass balance approach: renewable raw materials (used cooking oil or tall oil) for b!oPP and post-consumer recycled PP for reLIFE™. Finally, the complete range of Derprosa™ boxes, including the new sandy and leather-like textures, available with recycled or bio-based (ISCC PLUS) content and suitable for digital printing.
Sustainability claims only work when they can be checked: by certification, by structure, by data. That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and the reason our reDESIGN™ service starts with the customer’s market segment and needs before it proposes a solution.
If you work on cosmetics packaging and are planning for 2030, we would like to hear what your lines need.
Monica Battistella’s presentation is available on request.
