The majority of Sisley’s products are made in France.

Sisley & the environment

For over twenty years Sisley has been striving to reduce our environmental impact, taking into consideration the whole production process, from product design to sourcing ingredients. A structured action plan with long and short term aims for 2025-2030 was established around three key priorities.

Sisley is a French family company that’s continually striving to improve with a structured approach to creating quality beauty products, while reducing our environmental footprint.

CLIMATE & BIODIVERSITY - Reducing pressure on the environment

When it comes to energy, water, waste management and logistics, the company’s growth goes hand in hand with daily actions to continually and successfully reduce our environmental impact.

Sisley’s sites benefit from the latest technological advances in insulation and energy saving.

Energy consumption

Sisley’s sites have the highest certification standards (ISO 45001, ISO 14001 et HQE) meaning they benefit from the latest technological advances in insulation and energy saving. Long term investments have been made to ensure our machinery has the lowest energy consumption possible, lighting is optimised with LEDs and sensors are in place to limit the energy used.

Renewable energy

Sisley uses renewable energy wherever possible. Covering a surface area of 18,000m2, the solar power station installed directly on the roof of our logistics warehouse in Val-d’Oise is one of the largest in the Paris region. It produces 100% of the energy to run our offices. Since 2021, our industrial sites are fuelled by biogas, meaning a reduction of 850 tons if CO2 per year. The logistics site also uses geothermal energy.

Sisley is innovating to recycle waste sustainably and responsibly.

Waste management

The best kind of waste is waste that does not exist. Sisley is reducing waste at source (re-using packaging inserts: bubble wrap, cardboard boxes) while also ensuring that residual waste finds its value (recycling publicity materials). As a company, we are constantly working with our service providers to find innovative solutions and establish new waste treatment subsidiaries (plastic, glass, labels).

Meanwhile, Sisley is experimenting with new sustainable transport systems such as rail freight or net zero emissions with the COZEV project (Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels).

Distribution and transport

The majority of Sisley’s products are made in France. As an international brand, shipping to over 100 countries worldwide, we are always aware of the impact of shipping. After ten years working to reduce air transport, this now represents less than 10% of our freight, it has been replaced by sea freight. Meanwhile, Sisley is experimenting with new sustainable shipping options like rail or net zero emissions initiatives with the COZEV project (Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels - a collective initiative for zero emission sea freight)

Sisley is committed to reducing pollution from used manufacturing water and has a water purification station installed on site.

Water management

Water is an essential element and we should preserve it, both by reducing consumption and optimising production processes. At Sisley’s production site, the machines are set up to save water, with closed loop circuits, and cleaning systems using pressure jets and rotating nozzles. We clean 100% of the industrial used water we evacuate using the purification station installed on site to limit the pollution of water downstream.

Sisley supports environmental preservation and biodiversity projects both internationally and in France.

The preservation of biodiversity

As a company we are working to preserve the species that grow on our sites in France: cultivating bee hives, developing eco-grazing, planting endemic plant species and 4,000 trees and bushes etc. In addition, Sisley supports environmental preservation and biodiversity projects in France and internationally. One of these projects is in Cayenne in French Guiana, where the Sisley Foundation created the Jardin Sisley des Lauracées in partnership with the French coastal conservancy and CIRAD. The garden is dedicated to the study and preservation of native plants like coffee, cacao and ligneous species of Cordia alliodora, Bagassa guianensis and rosewood.

ECO-DESIGN & RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION - Reducing the impact of our products throughout their life cycle

For Sisley, the environment and innovation are closely linked, both in terms of our products and our sites: we analyse the lifecycle of products, redesign packaging as well as publicity materials at points of sale with eco-friendly criteria in mind.

Raw materials

As plant specialists for over forty years, Sisley’s research laboratories carefully select the plants used for active ingredients while respecting the biodiversity of local communities. Our partners share the same concerns and are particularly committed to sustainable supply:

RSPO certification for palm-based ingredients, short circuits, recovering bi-products created by other industries. Our Velvet Nourishing Creams with Saffron Flowers range is a perfect example, its flagship active ingredient, saffron flowers, is a bi-product of the food industry.

Packaging

Each product in the catalogue has been designed with our “4R” approach: using the right weight (Reduction), considering Refilling and Recycling options and using Recycled materials. The environmental impact of each new packaging solution is measured during development using the SPICE (Sustainable Packaging Initiative for Cosmetics) lifecycle analysis tool, developed in collaboration with other groups in the cosmetics industry.

Sisley is committed to innovation by using recycled or organically sourced material whenever possible.

Our goal:

Combining the best of nature with cutting-edge science to create quality beauty products that are safe and effective, all while minimising our environmental footprint with exacting, innovative processes.

COMMUNITIES & SHARED VALUE - Taking action and supporting our ecosystem

Sisley strives for excellence at all levels of the company and supports all its stakeholders (employees, suppliers, customers, etc.) in this endeavor, both within the company and along its value chain.

Sisley’s teams in action

Sisley’s 4,900 employees play a large role in reducing the environmental impact of our sites. Daily actions are taken: lighting sensors in offices, reducing external lighting at night, shared photocopying machines to avoid wasting paper, sorting of recycling, electric sockets in car parks, recovering rainwater to use for the plants and so on.

Sisley Tree Challenge

Sisley’s teams are working to support environmental causes with the collaborative spirit the brand is known for. This is the idea behind the Sisley Tree Challenge, an annual sports challenge that involves all our teams worldwide and supports environmental preservation, biodiversity, oceans and even local communities.

Sisley for nature

Alongside our own activities, Sisley supports a variety of programmes, projects and associations for the preservation of the environment and local ecosystems. Sisley’s programme for nature supports and finances biodiversity preservation and carbon emission offsetting projects along with those that aim to combat plastic pollution.

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