2024 Year Recap with Salonvironment

Our table at the NRC x NYSAR3 Conference, Nov 2024

2024 - what a year you were. Another year supporting sustainability in the beauty industry in various ways and avenues. As this year comes to an end, we’d like to reflect what we’ve done this year and share it with all of you.

This year’s goals ended up looking differently than I originally had planned for Salonvironment, but it was brought great opportunities for the beauty industry - for that I am thankful and I am excited to bring that energy into the next year.

Let’s talk about some of the things that we did through Salonvironment

• Our lashes are now being sold at Nomad Beauty Therapy, as well being offered as a service for temporary lashes

• Taught my first 7 R’s in Salon Sustainability class on the Green Beauty Community Webinar Platform

• Partnered with True Glue to offer low-tox eyelash glue with our Plant-Based Lashes

• Sponsored a Giveaway with Green Beauty Community by offering our “Recycling in the Salon” Workbook

• Hosted 3 Product Swaps this summer with 86 Plastic Refillery x Nomad Beauty Therapy, Kismet Studio, and BYOC Refillery Plymouth

  • Donated the rest of the products between Give ‘n Glow, The Indigo Community, Detroit Recovery Project, my local Buy Nothing page, and the unusable products disposed of to ERG Hazardous Recovery

  • You can read the impact report here

• Hosted a Beauty Tool Donation box at the Refill Emporium for recently released Colorado inmates who obtained their cosmetology license through R&R Headlabs

  • You can read the impact report here

• Visited SPURT Composting Facility to learn more about the commercial composting progress and how the salon industry can get involved

• Completed our first R&D Project with compostable materials (results will be posted soon)

• Advocated for Climate Disaster funds and resources to support beauty professionals and salon owners

• Offered Beauty Tool Donating at BABE Collective’s Conference

• Launched our Affiliate Marketplace to showcase our partnerships

• Was a guest on a 3-episode series on the Impactful Salon Owner Podcast on the topic of advocacy in the salon and beauty industry

  • Ep 1, Ep 2, Ep 3

• Tabled at the National Recycling Congress x New York State Association of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Conference with the topic of Sustainability in the Beauty Industry

As most of you know, I cofounded the Green Beauty Community last year, this year I became COO.

Here are some of the things we’ve done through Green Beauty Community

• Went to Chicago for an Oway event and visited the Climate Action Museum

• Released the Green Beauty Community Guidebook with Pivot Point

• Went to America’s Beauty Show to meet with leaders in the industry to figure out what support the beauty industry needs 

• The Green Beauty Community becomes a nonprofit

• Launched the Green Beauty Community Podcast (The Business of Sustainability) and our bi-monthly webinar series

• Attended both Intercoffuire Spring & Fall events and the Pro Beauty Association Executive Summit Event

And some of our daily tasks that take up our day-to-day…

• Recycling for beauty professionals and beauty enthusiasts (332.66 lbs of plastic, aluminum, and other hard to recycle items)

• Wrote 9 articles for our website

• Advocated our various causes such as Protect the Porkies, Shut Down Line 5, standing behind a Global Plastic Treaty, and others

• Connecting with incredible individuals that are looking to make the world a better place. Innovators, artists, manufacturers, salon owners, recyclers… and so many others

We have many ideas of what we’d like to do for 2025. There are so many opportunities to help educate, create actionable steps, and help bridge the gap where it needs it. 

This includes going back to becoming more locally involved and offering more tools and resources to professionals looking for easy, sustainable actions.

Have a Happy New Year, everyone! We’re excited to see you then.