Sustainability

Living skincare starts with living ingredients — and living ingredients only mean something if the process that grows, harvests, and formulates them respects what it's taking from. Sustainability, for us, isn't a badge on a box. It's the reason the formula works in the first place: skin responds to what's actually alive in a product, not what's printed on it.

Here's the proof, structured plainly, so you can verify it rather than take our word for it.

Certifications at a Glance

Standard What it certifies Scope
ECOCERT® Greenlife — COSMOS Natural 95–100% natural-origin ingredients, third-party verified Applied per formula, listed on individual product pages
GMP — ISO 22716:2007 Good Manufacturing Practice for cosmetics: hygiene, traceability, quality control Facility-wide manufacturing standard
EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 Product safety, labelling, and ingredient restriction compliance All products sold under Valen Sey
Cruelty-Free No animal testing, at any stage of formulation or finished product All products

The EU's cosmetic ingredient framework restricts or bans over 1,300 substances that remain permitted in several other global markets — meaning a product formulated to EU standard is, by definition, held to a stricter baseline than most.

Ingredients: What "Living" Actually Means

  • Formulas draw from a working library of roughly 600 active and functional ingredients, of which approximately 95% are certified organic, grown through sustainable farming methods rather than intensive monoculture.
  • 100% of our formulas are biodegradable — nothing in the product outlives its purpose once it's rinsed away.
  • Whole-plant, bio-active extracts are prioritised over synthetic filler actives, preserving the ingredient's natural complexity rather than isolating a single compound.
  • Formulas are built to be free of parabens, silicones, microplastics, and synthetic fragrance — see individual product pages for the full INCI list of each formula.

Manufacturing: Where the Energy Comes From

Every formula is produced in a GMP ISO 22716:2007-certified facility in the European Union, operating on 100% renewable electricity. Precision equipment — including Swiss-engineered stainless steel processing machinery — is used to achieve the texture and stability consistency premium skincare depends on, batch after batch.

This isn't a new commitment bolted onto an old process. The facilities we work with carry 19 years of experience in organic and natural-certified product development, which means the sustainability practices behind your product weren't retrofitted for a marketing campaign — they were built into the process from the start.

Packaging: The Circular Part

  • 88% of the cardboard used across shipping and product packaging is made from recycled material.
  • Product containers are designed to be fully recyclable.
  • Transit packaging — the outer boxes your order actually arrives in — is made from recycled materials wherever possible, reducing the footprint of the delivery itself, not just the product inside it.

Animal Welfare

No product sold by Valen Sey is tested on animals at any stage — not the raw ingredients, not the finished formula. This is a baseline, not an upsell.

Why This Page Exists

We'd rather hand you verifiable standards than adjectives. "Natural" and "clean" mean whatever a brand wants them to mean until they're backed by a certifying body, a regulation number, or a measurable percentage. Everything on this page is checkable — by you, by a regulator, or by anyone else who wants to look past the packaging.

Questions about a specific formula's sourcing or a certification's scope? Reach us at contact@thevalensey.com or visit our Quality Standards page for the full technical breakdown.