The Era of Upcycled Beauty — Sustainable Products for You and the Planet
The Era of Upcycled Beauty
Sustainable beauty items that protect both your body and the planet
Produced by Parc Jinmyoung, Pyo Youngso
Photos Park Jaehong
Products courtesy of Gleer
Gold Babyrice
Herbloom
B Project
Gleer
White Peachcule Cream & White Peachdrop
Upcycled produce: Imperfect Mibaekdo peaches from Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do
Product features: A daily cream that helps bring out radiance and shine, thanks to the fresh pectin in Mibaekdo peaches harvested in season from August to October. Made mainly with Mibaekdo peach, banana and white spicule, it also uses barley seed extract, potato peel extract and acorn extract to soothe skin, deliver antioxidants and add moisture. The aluminum packaging is easy to recycle.
About the brand: Gleer is a brand that offers “farm-direct, seasonal cosmetics.” Specialists select, process and turn agricultural produce into ingredients themselves, and sales volumes are set each year according to conditions on the farms, from the variety and region of the seasonal ingredient to its harvest time.
Size: 50g / 55g
Price: 45,000 KRW / 42,000 KRW
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Gold Babyrice
Baby Rice Soap Powder
Upcycled produce: Domestic organic broken rice (baby rice)
Product features: A powder-type cleanser made from finely ground organic broken rice. The assorted vitamins and minerals in rice help cleanse, moisturize and soothe. The packaging uses a recyclable glass container and an easy-to-remove label.
About the brand: Gold Babyrice is a brand that adds value to broken rice through upcycling. It practices eco-friendly veganism with naturally derived ingredients and zero-waste packaging.
Size: 100g
Price: 28,400 KRW
Herbloom
Calming Days Vegan Sunscreen
Upcycled produce: Imperfect potatoes from Jeju
Product features: A sunscreen that combines extract of discarded imperfect potatoes with centella asiatica extract and organic fresh aloe juice to replenish the skin with vitamins and calm it. It contains no oxybenzone or octinoxate, making it reef-safe and harmless to coral reefs, and its paper packaging cuts plastic use by 80 percent.
About the brand: Herbloom is an organic vegan skincare brand built on plant-based ingredients. It never uses animal ingredients obtained unethically or any animal-derived ingredients at all, and it works to reduce plastic use by relying solely on eco-friendly packaging.
Size: 50ml
Price: 28,000 KRW
B Project
Stay Hair Deep Cleansing Shampoo
Upcycled produce: Carrot leaves from Jeju, yuzu seed oil from Goheung, sea buckthorn from Jirisan
Product features: A shampoo that draws on the proteins in potato, corn, rice and soybean to focus on scalp health and hair root strength. It uses eco-friendly ingredients upcycled from crops grown in clean areas of Korea, such as yuzu, carrot and sea buckthorn, along with plant-derived extracts.
About the brand: B Project is a vegan-friendly brand committed to protecting animals and the environment. It excludes chemical ingredients as much as possible and uses naturally derived ones, pursuing clean and sustainable beauty.
Size: 500ml
Price: 39,000 KRW