Impact report · 2026
One page for our footprint: what a refill saves, how far each ingredient travels, what we’ve done so far and what we haven’t solved yet.
Demo values for this template
46.69° N · 10.55° E
Moraine · Lab 01
(01) Why we publish this
(02) In numbers
Six figures we track.
(03) Packaging lifecycle
One bottle, many fills.
Glass is made
Our bottles are formed from opal glass at a glassworks in northern Italy. Opal glass is heavier than clear glass and shields the formula from light, so each bottle is made to last for years.
Filled at the lab
Each batch of up to 40 liters is filled by hand in our clean room and closed with a pump or dropper. The label carries the batch number and the filling date.
Used at home
You use the formula as usual; nothing about the bottle changes your routine. When it’s empty, rinse it with warm water and let it dry upside down.
Refilled
The refill arrives in a light aluminum bottle with a screw cap. You pour it into your glass, keep the pump, and send the empty refill bottle back with your next return.
Returned or recycled
Every third refill includes a free return label for empty refill bottles and any glass you no longer need. Sound bottles are washed, sanitized and filled again; damaged ones go to glass recycling.
(04) Supply chain
How far our ingredients travel.
Grown nearby
0–23 km
Grown by Jonas or by neighboring farms in our valley and the Martell side valley. Leaves, flowers and berries are all picked or cut by hand.
Alpine rose · Sea buckthorn · Chamomile · Calendula
Lab-grown
238 km
Edelweiss is protected in the wild, so we use a plant-cell culture grown in Switzerland. No wild flowers are picked.
Edelweiss
Lab-made
303–504 km
Niacinamide is made by a supplier in Germany and hyaluronic acid by biofermentation in Bohemia. Both arrive as light powders, so a small parcel lasts many batches.
Niacinamide · Hyaluronic acid
Cultivated in the EU
346–1,538 km
Oat comes from farms in Upper Austria and olive-derived squalane from Andalusia. Both travel to us by truck.
Oat · Squalane
Imported
6,024 km
Bakuchiol comes from the seeds of Psoralea corylifolia grown in Rajasthan, India. It is our longest route, and we explain why below.
Bakuchiol
Distances are straight-line demo values from the lab at 46.69° N, 10.55° E. Origins come from the Ingredients collection.
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(05) Goals
What we’ve promised, and by when.
Done
Refills for 9 of 12 formulas
Every formula we can refill safely now has a refill, and every third refill ships with a free return label.
In progress
A single-material pump
We’re testing a pump made entirely from aluminum, so it can be recycled in one piece. Two prototypes are on trial at the lab.
In progress
Drop-off returns at stockists
Bring your empties to a stockist instead of posting them. A pilot is running with our stockists in Vienna and Munich.
Planned
A closer source for bakuchiol
We’re looking for a European grower of Psoralea corylifolia, or a plant alternative grown closer to the lab.
Planned
An independently reviewed footprint
A full cradle-to-grave assessment for every product, reviewed by an outside expert and published here in full.
Goals and statuses are demo content.
(06) What we’re still working on
Four problems we haven’t solved.
Pumps are mixed materials
A pump combines a steel spring, several plastics and an aluminum collar, and most recycling systems can’t sort it. That’s why our refills come with a plain screw cap and you keep the pump from your first bottle. For a pump that finally wears out, we don’t have a good answer yet; a single-material pump is our goal for 2027.
Bakuchiol comes from India
Bakuchiol is the only key ingredient we bring in from outside Europe, about 6,000 km from the lab in a straight line. We haven’t yet found a European grower with the quality and quantity we need. Until we do, we name its origin on the product page and keep looking.
Return shipping has emissions too
Every parcel of empties that comes back by courier adds transport emissions, and for a long trip, such as from Copenhagen, we don’t yet know whether the return saves more than it costs. That’s why the free label comes with every third refill rather than every order: fewer, fuller parcels. We’re measuring it, and drop-off points at stockists should help.
Opal glass takes more energy
Opal glass needs more energy to make than clear glass, so each new bottle starts with a larger footprint. That only pays off if the bottle is refilled many times. We’re testing clear glass with a light-blocking sleeve as an alternative.
Methodology
How these numbers should be calculated.
All figures on this page are demo values written for the Moraine template. They are not measured results. Replace them with your own data before publishing, or remove the figures you can’t support.
Use a cradle-to-gate scope for CO₂e: from raw materials and farming, through ingredient processing and packaging manufacture, to the finished product leaving your lab. State the scope next to every figure.
Compare like with like. A refill figure only means something against a new bottle of the same volume and formula, calculated over the same scope.
Follow ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 for the life-cycle assessment, and have the results reviewed by someone outside your business before you publish percentages.
Data to collect
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Weight and material of every packaging part: bottle, pump or dropper, cap, label, refill bottle and shipping box.
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Recycled content of each material, from supplier declarations.
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Emission factors for each material and process, from your suppliers or a recognized LCA database.
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Ingredient quantities per batch, with the origin and transport mode of each.
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Electricity and heat used per batch at the lab, and the share from renewable sources.
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Transport to the lab and to the customer: distance, mode and load.
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Return rate, reuse rate, and the water and energy used to wash each returned bottle.
Questions about our figures: care@moraine-skin.example