Green Impact Index

A tool to help you consume better

Founded by a humanist pharmacist, a passionate botanist and committed to manufacturing its products in Occitania, the Pierre Fabre Group, to which the brand Eau Thermale Avène belongs, has been committed since its origin to the protection of biodiversity and the respect of Men. But today, we wanted to go further.

We had to accelerate to fight against global warming, health risks, exclusion in all its forms and the growing mistrust of consumers and patients. We were convinced that we would not be able to meet all these challenges by working in isolation. The challenge request collective effort involving companies, institutions, experts, consumers and patients. This is why the Pierre Fabre Group has designed the Green Impact Index, an informing and rating tool for the environmental and societal impact of cosmetic products. 

A tool that aims to be reliable, transparent and useful, to help us develop products that are more respectful of the Planet, and to allow everyone to choose their products with full knowledge of the facts.
 

Green Impact Index scoring method

To be complete and reliable, calculating an eco-socio-design score is a complex exercise. Our main challenge was therefore to make it understandable and easy to use for everyone. Thus, each product is assigned a letter from A to D to measure its level of eco-socio-design.

The score for each product is obtained from the evaluation of 14 environmental criteria and 6 societal criteria. The environmental score accounts for 2/3 of the overall score, and the societal score for 1/3. The overall score is first calculated out of 15, then averaged over 20 to obtain the product's Green Impact Index.