Growing awareness about the harmful effects of synthetic products is leading to a shift in demand from synthetic to natural and organic personal care products in Europe, especially in the skincare category.
In 2014, the skincare segment dominated the overall personal care market, with a market share of 68%-70%. Thanks to increased emphasis on more natural skincare products, the European market is likely to grow at a CAGR of 9.58% from 2014-2019.
Technavio highlights the top 19 companies offering natural and organic personal care products in Europe:
Arbonne
Arbonne skincare products are based on botanical principles and are shared all over the world through the Arbonne network of Independent consultants. Their product line offers both inner and outer health and beauty products that are unparalleled in quality, safety, value, benefits and results.
Aubrey Organics
Aubrey Organics boasts an impressive ‘list of firsts’ including being the first personal care manufacturer to list all of their ingredients. They buy only the purest natural and organic ingredients from fair trade sources, and use them in handcrafted, all-natural products that are good for you and good for the Earth.
Clorox
Clorox is a manufacturer of chemicals, foods, and consumer products but entered the personal care market when they acquired Burt’s Bees in 2007. Every year Burt’s Bees gets better at choosing and fusing raw ingredients from root and stem and bark and blossom that work in harmony with your skin’s natural chemistry, producing products with the best scent and texture nature has to offer.
Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive is a multinational company engaged in the production and distribution of household goods, oral and healthcare products, and personal care products. They own the natural products company Tom’s of Maine who have been committed to sustainable sourcing, manufacturing, and packaging since 1971.
Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder is a leading manufacturer and marketer of high-end skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. In partnership with their consumers, employees, suppliers and retailers, they promote respect for people and resources, striving to be a positive influence in every community they touch.
Giovanni Cosmetics
Giovanni was one of the first natural salon hair care brands and today is one of the top selling natural hair care lines in Europe’s natural and organic products industry. Giovanni is recognized as a natural product industry leader because they are committed to creating only the highest performance formulations, wrapped in aesthetically beautiful packaging and marketed with extraordinary visuals and graphics.
Iredale Mineral Cosmetics
Jane Iredale is a comprehensive line of mineral makeup developed to enhance the lives of women by delivering personal, natural beauty to lift her health and spirit. A responsible extension of skin care, each product is subjected to rigorous safety tests to ensure it is as good for the skin as it is beautiful to wear.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson offers a broad range of products used in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women’s health care fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products, and wellness and prevention platforms.
Laverana
The mission for Laverana is to produce genuine natural cosmetics. They utilize the multifunctionality of natural ingredients to create products that uniquely combine naturalness, effectiveness, and beauty.
L’Occitane
L’Occitane offers high quality beauty products and fragrances, developed following the principles of phytotherapy and aromatherapy. They use over 200 botanical ingredients, a quarter of them organic certified, which are carefully selected for their effectiveness and their ability to give your skin the elements it needs to be beautiful.
L’Oréal
For over a century L’Oréal has provided access to products that enhance well-being, mobilizing its innovative strength to preserve the beauty of the planet and supporting local communities. Their accolades speak for themselves having won awards for ‘Ethics, Sustainable Development and Diversity’, ‘Performance and Innovation’, ‘Corporate Management’ and more.
Natural Solter
Natural Solter is one of Spain’s leading private label cosmetic manufacturers. They rely on the expertise and experience of their laboratories to manufacture their own brands, producing some of the highest quality natural and organic cosmetics in Europe.
Oriflame
Oriflame started in Sweden but now offers a wide range of high quality beauty products in more than 60 countries. Their current five-year sustainability plan includes 14 goals and 36 commitments, all of which are dedicated to improving people’s lives, creating products that are ethically and socially responsible, and achieving business-wide sustainability.
Physicians Formula
Allergists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgeons across the world recommend Physicians Formula products because none of the 100+ known skin irritants are allowed in anything they create. Their hypoallergenic skin care products are made for those with sensitive skin.
Revlon – The Colomer Group
In 2003, Revlon acquired Colomer, a global manufacturer of personal care products for professional and individual use. This acquisition has further established Revlon as one of the most quintessential and innovative beauty companies in the world.
Sephora
Sephora’s unique, open-sell environment features an ever-increasing amount of classic and emerging brands across a broad range of product categories including skincare, color, fragrance, body, smilecare, and haircare, in addition to Sephora’s own private label. Today, Sephora is not only the leading chain of perfume and cosmetics stores in France, but also a powerful beauty presence in countries around the world.
Shiseido
Shiseido’s state-of-the-art technology is developed through research on the skin, the body and the mind, to advance what they call human science. Shiseido combines these advancements with exquisite aesthetic elements, to create the most satisfying experiences of skincare, makeup and fragrance – infused with the power to connect with your inner beauty force, and bring it to the surface.
Weleda
Weleda’s aim is to maintain, support and restore human health. What started in 1921 as a pharmaceutical laboratory, has now become the world-leading manufacturer of holistic natural cosmetics and pharmaceuticals for anthroposophical therapy. They are pioneers of sustainability, receiving awards for ‘Best Ethical Range’ and the ‘Sustainable Beauty Award’.
Yves Rocher (Rocher Group)
Yves Rocher is a worldwide cosmetics brand and one of the leading manufacturers of natural and organic personal care products in Europe. They extract the best ingredients from the plant world and control every step of the production cycle in order to guarantee the quality and safety of all products for a respectful and accessible brand.
