ICADA Global Ethics

Environmental awareness and sustainability are increasingly becoming factors in purchasing decisions. Many consumers are prepared to pay a higher purchase price for a sustainable product or at least prioritise such a product over an equivalent non-sustainable product. The "Global Ethics" seal from ICADA takes this development into account. The seal acts as a meta-standard. It is not intended to add yet another label to the many global standards for sustainability, fair trade, CSR/social responsibility, environmental factors, life cycle assessment, carbon footprint, water footprint, waste disposal, etc. Global Ethics should be usable as a summarising umbrella brand for every type of ethical criterion in the cosmetics market by checking whether ICADA has recognised certifications in the area of sustainability or environmental protection for the raw material properties of the product in question.

The Global Ethics label is awarded for proof of one or more qualifications 

1. CSR (social and environmental requirements) 

2. Environmental management system 

3. Waste management 

4. Climate neutrality 

5. Fair trade 3-world projects 

6. Environmentally friendly packaging 

7. Solvent avoidance 

8. catalyst restriction,

9. Social working conditions 

10. certified sustainability 

11. resource-conscious logistics 

12. Regionality 

13. Supply chain documentation 

14. Degradability according to OECD 301 A-F 

15. Green chemistry rules 

16. Carbon dioxide balances/reduction 

17. Optimised energy yield 

18. Reduced water consumption 

19. Resource awareness (mica, talc, zinc..) 

20. Unpackaged 

21. BCorp company 

22. Life Cycle Assessment 

23. ISO 14014 

24. EBS EcoBeautyScore 

25. WWF Carbon Credits 

26. No microplastics 

27. Climate Partner certification 

28. and others

Conditions for licence use 

ICADA members or label partners do not have to pay any licence fees for the Global-Ethics label. For all others, the label is not available for purchase.

Procedure 

To purchase the label, you must have a certificate - recognised by ICADA - in which the product to be licensed is certified as complying with one of the above criteria. This certificate must be forwarded to ICADA. The certificate, your ICADA membership or label partnership will then be checked and it will be assessed whether the requirements for using the label are met. If these are met, you will be sent written authorisation to use the ICADA mark and the certificate for the compliant products.