It doesn’t have to be hard to find brands that align with your values. As a beauty professional, if sustainability is something you care deeply about, you have a growing number of options for caring for your clients consciously, without compromising product quality.
Whether you want to promote clean water, recycling and reusing, or sustainable ingredient sourcing, we’ve put together a collection of brands that you can feel good about using this Earth Month. These brands pride themselves on doing good for the planet and your guests’ hair and skin.
SKIN SPOTLIGHT
Veg Out Organics Skincare Line
Veg Out Organics – Plant-Based Skincare
Veg Out Organics is an organic, clean beauty, plant-based skincare line headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA. The co-founders are a husband-and-wife team, Brad and Katie Wynne, who created Veg Out from a desire to teach their children the importance of sustainable, organic farming. The brand originated as a passion project, and now offers a complete spa experience with a full skincare regimen through nine products.
Each product is waterless, providing a higher concentration of active ingredients than water-based skincare, as well as a reduced need for preservatives and longer shelf life. All packaging is sustainable and recycled, consisting mostly of sugar cane tubes, glass, and hemp paper. Aloe vera is the first ingredient in most of the products, promoting soothed and healthy skin. The line includes everything your clients need for a full routine, including a cleanser, exfoliator, vitamin C serum, moisturizer, mask, eye cream, lip balm, body oil and body lotion.
SABON is committed to celebrating the power of nature’s finest ingredients, harnessing the healing properties of the Dead Sea with their incredible product offering of skincare and body care. With each thoughtfully crafted product, the brand brings nature’s nourishing gifts directly to one’s skincare routine, offering indulgent self-care solutions that are as kind to the planet as they are to your skin.
SABON’s Dead Sea Body Care Line harnesses the powerful, healing properties of the mineral-rich Dead Sea waters. Infused with Dead Sea mud and salts, along with Olive Oil and Pink Rock Rose, these luxurious body treatments offer a deeply nourishing, spa-like experience. Featuring products with over 92% natural ingredients, such as the Body Scrub, Cleanser, Mask, Bath Salts, and Cream to Oil, this collection purifies, exfoliates, and moisturizes, offering the ultimate self-care ritual with the Earth’s finest natural ingredients.
HAIRCARE & RESOURCES
AIIR Professional Sapphire Shampoo & Conditioner Refill Pouches
Infused with sapphire and soothing botanicals—sage in the shampoo and black rice in the conditioner—these luxurious formulas are now available in eco-friendly refill pouches designed to reduce plastic waste and minimize environmental impact.
Each biodegradable pouch holds 720m1 (24 fl oz) and is crafted to refill (3) 8oz Sapphire bottles, significantly cutting down on single-use plastic in the salon environment. By choosing these refill options, salons can easily align their services with their sustainability goals without compromising on product quality or performance.
Dip Shampoo & Conditioning Bars
Dip – Eco-Friendly Shampoo & Conditioning Bars
Dip Sustainable Hair Care Founder Kate Assaraf set out to create cleansing and conditioning bars that performed as well as the top bottled brands that people would actually re-purchase. With zero-waste packaging, high-quality ingredients, and delightful natural scents, you and your clients will love these eco-friendly bars.
One bar of Dip Shampoo will last as long as three bottles of a luxury brand, and one bar of Dip Conditioner will last as long as 12 luxury brand conditioners. Dip products are not sold on Amazon, and the company rarely runs sales on its website, so your salon retail prices are never undercut.
Green Circle Salons – Salon Recycling Program
Green Circle Salons is an award-winning program that empowers salons to recover up to 95% of their beauty waste, including previously unrecoverable materials and hard-to-recycle items like hair clippings, foils, excess hair color, aerosol cans, and color tubes. Green Circle Salons has been certified by B Corp and the Carbon Trust to acknowledge that it meets the highest standards of environmental and social responsibility and meets requirements for Zero Waste to Landfill.
Green Circle Salons has partnered with 1% for the Planet.
Green Circle has joined 1% for the Planet to focus on the urgent need to care for water. 1% for the Planet was founded on the idea that a company has a responsibility to give back to the use of our planet’s resources. As members, businesses commit to donating at least 1% of annual revenue to environmental nonprofits. The program partners with third-party verified organizations, ensuring that every dollar donated goes to meaningful, long-term solutions. Green Circle will direct 1% of their revenue in 2025 toward water preservation.
Hairstory Healthiest Hair Method Bundle
Hairstory – Responsible Haircare
This month, Hairstory is donating $50,000 to four sustainable water organizations that are part of 1% for the Planet, including Clean Water Fund, Loggerhead Marine Life Center, Riverkeeper and Well Aware. Consumers are invited to vote for the organization they would like to see the funds go to and Hairstory will give $20,000 to the winner and $10,000 to the other three.
Founded in 2015 with sustainability at the heart of their identity, Hairstory continues to develop their brand and products adhering to the mission of being both good for you and good for the planet.Hairstory aims to continue the reduction of their carbon footprint and plastic usage, as well as continue to support water conservation and related organizations. You can view the brand’s full sustainability report HERE.
Jolie Filtered Shower Head
Jolie – Filtered Showerhead
Hair professionals understand the impact of water quality on the health and integrity of our hair and skin more than anyone else, making the Jolie Filtered Showerhead an essential beauty tool. Over 2,500 salons in the U.S. are currently recommending Jolie filtered showerheads to their clients as “step zero” in their haircare routine.
Water systems in the U.S. use chlorine to disinfect the water. While useful in destroying harmful bacteria, chlorine, pollutants and heavy metals in the water are damaging to our skin and hair. We spend so much time, money, and effort on products that address acne, damaged hair, eczema, change in hair color, rashes, you name it, when in reality we should be addressing the root cause, our shower water.
Jolie’s Filtered Showerhead removes chlorine and heavy metals with no compromise in water pressure. It fits all shower faucets and is clinically proven to decrease hair shedding, frizziness, and buildup of damaging impurities.
KMS Hairplay Beach Style Creme
KMS – Hairplay Beach Style Creme
This April, KMS Hair, a collection of innovative professional hair and styling solutions, has introduced Hairplay Beach Style Creme. This breakthrough styling crème, formulated with upcycled seaweed, delivers weightless hydration, touchable hold and an airy texture for effortlessly tousled, beach-like looks.
By integrating upcycled seaweed in partnership with Carbonwave, a public benefit start-up committed to preserving the world’s oceans, KMS demonstrates that great style and environmental stewardship can go hand in hand. Upcycled Sargassum seaweed, a naturally derived texturizer, is the core of the Hairplay Beach Style Creme formula. This seaweed-based emulsifier smooths the formulation for a weightless and very easy to apply creme.
Carbonwave collects washed up seaweed that accumulates on beaches around the world and transforms it into an eco-friendly ingredient, preventing its negative impact on the environment.
Olivia Garden Recycled OG Brush Collection
courtesy of Olivia Garden
Olivia Garden – Recycled OG Brush Collection
Olivia Garden is celebrating Earth Month by showcasing its comprehensive commitment to sustainability through recycling programs, eco-friendly product innovations, and impactful social media initiatives.
The company recently launched a Recycling Program utilizing TerraCycle’s freight recycling services, enabling customers to send in used hairbrushes and styling appliances from any brand for recycling. Upon receipt, participants receive a 10% discount on future purchases, helping reduce waste and repurpose materials into new products.
The company has long incorporated recycled materials into its product lines—including the Recycled OG Brush Collection, Holiday Candy Brushes, OG Luxe Brush Collection, and more— all featuring components made from 100% recycled plastic. Packaging and displays are also continuously innovated to use recycled or eco-friendly materials.
R+Co BLEU Essential Air Dry/Blow Dry Crème
R+Co BLEU – Essential Air Dry/Blow Dry Crème
Experience dual action drying with this new, versatile styler from R+Co BLEU. TheEssential Air Dry/Blow Dry Crème is an ultra-lightweight and quick-absorbing, essential drying crème featuring a unique blend of duo flex polymers that reduce breakage by 79%, provide 450° f heat protection, and deliver high shine and smoothness to air-dried and blow-dried styles. Air-dried hair is left with controlled, yet soft and touchable, natural texture, while blow-dried hair is frizz-free and bouncy.
R+Co BLEU is proud to make a lasting commitment to the environment with cutting-edge packaging that is both recycled and recyclable, creating a continuous cycle of sustainability. A cornerstone of R+Co BLEU’s philosophy and design is its commitment to using PCR: post-consumer resources. This includes recovering plastics and single-use components once the initial lifecycle has been completed.
REDAVID Orchid Oil Treatment
REDAVID – Orchid Oil Treatment
REDAVID’s new Orchid Oil Treatmentis a luxurious, salon-grade leave-in oil that restores moisture, smooths frizz, and delivers incredible shine without weighing the hair down. Suitable for all hair types, it’s powered by orchid extract to deeply nourish and protect, leaving hair soft, silky, and manageable. Designed as a stylist must-have, it also doubles as a finishing product, adding a glossy, polished touch that enhances both natural and styled looks.
REDAVID sources the highest quality, naturally sourced ingredients that treat, reinforce and thicken hair. REDAVID prides itself on being clean, vegan and cruelty-free, fair trade and recyclable.
Saie – Clean & Climate-Conscious Makeup
On Earth Day, Saie is donating 100% of proceeds from Saiehello.com to the The Saie Climate Initiative’s partnership with rePurpose Global.
More than just on Earth Day, Saie is deeply committed to making the world a more beautiful place for all people and our shared planet. While there is still much work to do, The Saie Climate Initiative is their commitment to directly combat climate change. Saie has committed to:
Being net zero by eliminating and offsetting emissions across their supply chain by 2039
Partnering with rePurpose Global to recover 5M pounds of plastic over three-years across four countries, five coastlines
Establishing an all-women board of experts to support, guide and drive this mission.
Small Wonder Signature Shampoo & Conditioner w/ Refill Tubes
Small Wonder – Signature Shampoo & Conditioner Refill Tubes
Small Wonder is an innovative professional-grade haircare brand dedicated to revolutionizing the beauty industry with its powder-to-lather formulations. Known for its salon-grade powder products, Small Wonder elevates haircare by focusing on concentrated active ingredients, eliminating the need for unnecessary fillers or excess water.
At the heart of the brand is its Wonder Bottle – a permanent, refillable fixture designed to reduce plastic waste while delivering luxurious, high-performance results. Paired with recyclable and compostable Refill Tubes, Small Wonder provides a more luxe, sustainable and efficient alternative to traditional haircare routines.
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