These Are Just Some Of The Beauty Products You Can Recycle With Us
Handle sorts, washes and shreds plastic materials and recycles them into new packaging for the beauty industry and a range of accessories, including a hand mirror and hairbrush. All you have to do is pop into your nearest Space NK, pick up a Handle collection bag, fill it with your empties and drop it off in the Handle bin at your local store. You will need to rinse out the packaging and remove paper labels where possible.
In terms of what can be recycled, Handle accepts all types of plastic bottles, pots and jars (including the lids!), as well as aluminum packaging (cue your favourite Aesop buys) and glass bottles and pots. While there are plenty of beauty products that you can recycle through the Space NK and Handle partnership, to celebrate National Recycling Week 2023, we decided to shout about our 14 favourite recyclable beauty products…
Drunk Elephant
C-Firma Fresh Day Serum, £71.00We love that the reformulated Drunk Elephant C-Firma Fresh Day Serum means it’s as potent as possible and brightens our skin, but it does mean that our favourite vitamin C serum comes with extra packaging. Fortunately, both bottles can be recycled with Handle.
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Aesop
Purifying Facial Exfoliant Paste, £43.00Aluminium is one of the easiest materials to recycle and more beauty brands are turning to it for packaging. Aesop was an early adopter and uses it for a handful of its formulas, including this gentle lactic acid exfoliator.
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Nécessaire
The Body Serum Fragrance Free, £45.00Of course, the body care brand that everyone is going mad for is recyclable. The founders of Nécessaire thought of everything when they launched the chic, streamlined range in 2017. If you haven’t tried any Nécessaire products yet, put the Body Serum at the top of your list. It’s fragrance-free and contains five molecular weights of hyaluronic acid to maximum your skin’s hydration levels from head-to-toe.
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Ren Clean Skincare
Ready Steady Glow Daily AHA Tonic, £16.00REN is another brand that takes sustainability incredibly seriously and the packaging is not only recyclable, but it’s made from post-consumer recycled plastic. Without going overboard on the cheesiness, you can now feel as good as your skin does with its daily dose of Ready Steady Glow Tonic.
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Hourglass
Curator Eyeshadow, £29.00While you can recycle all of your Hourglass compacts and palettes with Handle, we wanted to highlight the Curator Eyeshadows as we’re obsessed with our bespoke eye palette. Expect to see more aluminum packaging from the brand moving forwards too.
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Olaplex
No.3 Hair Perfector, £28.00If you go through an Olaplex No 3 Hair Perfector a month because you’re as addicted to the shine-boosting results as us, then make sure you pick up a Handle collection bag. The entire Olaplex range can be recycled via Handle, but don’t forget to give each bottle a quick rinse and dry before adding it to your bag.
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Charlotte Tilbury
Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray, £20.00Our buying team and customers alike love Charlotte Tilbury’s Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray. The featherlight mist can be used to fix your makeup in place and refresh your glow mid-afternoon too. It’s a multitasking makeup essential.
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Sol de Janeiro
Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, £21.00The holiday inducing scent of Sol de Janeiro’s Brazilian Bum Bum Cream is a year-round favourite for a lot of people and now you can recycle your empty as soon as your new pot arrives. If you’re more of an Sol de Janeiro Bom Dia Bright Cream, £21.00 fan, Handle will take care of that and any other Sol de Janeiro packaging too.
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Paula's Choice
Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant, £12.00This miracle tonic from Paula’s Choice keeps blackheads and breakouts at bay thanks to the 2% salicylic acid blend. While the brand doesn’t offer refill yet, you can make your beauty favourites more sustainable by recycling them with Handle.
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Summer Fridays
Lip Butter Balm, £23.00If, like us, you love Summer Friday's nourishing lip balms, especially at this time of year, you'll be pleased to hear that you can recycle the packaging when you need to replenish your stash.
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JVN Hair
Complete Air Dry Cream, £12.00When Jonathan Van Ness started his haircare line, JVN Hair, he was as passionate about the environment as he was about ensuring the formulas catered to all hair types and concerns. As a result, the packaging is as sustainable as possible, including the bestselling Air Cream in its aluminum tube.
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Upcircle
Body Cream with the Extract of Leftover Date Seeds, N/AUpCircle is a revolutionary sustainable beauty brand that repurposes leftover ingredients, including date seeds, apricot stones and coffee grounds to create effective skincare and bodycare. Not only do the formulas deliver on the promises made on UpCircle's packaging, but they smell and feel divine too. Unsurprisingly, the brand has ensured its packaging is recyclable.
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Stella by Stella McCartney
Restore Cream, N/AFashion designer Stella McCartney has applied the same approach to her beauty line as she does with her clothes and accessories collections. The ingredients are sustainably sourced and the packaging is both recyclable and refillable. It is feel-good skincare at its very best.
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Susanne Kaufmann
Hair & Body Wash, N/AWhile the bottle Susanne Kaufmann's uplifting Hair and Body Wash comes in is recyclable, we've still got the original one as the brand offers refills which are great for the environment and your bank balance.
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