Our Responsibility
Of Course We Have a “NO” List
Atmosphera’s mission is to help people and the planet flourish. We do this by designing climate-curated skincare that builds resilience, respects nature, and empowers everyone to find their element.
We are proud to be a responsible, purpose-driven brand. Our commitment is comprehensive– both deep and wide. We hope you will come along for the journey.
We launched Atmosphera 10 years ago in Canada, hyper-focused on skin health and adaptability to weather and environmental pollutants.
We are now embarking on a full circle experience– one that incorporates sustainably sourced, regionally applicable ingredients that support skin health and resilient ecosystems. We are science-backed and holistic in our approach to climate-curated skincare, identifying the ingredients that deliver just what skin needs, and growing and processing those ingredients with respect to the planet, workers and communities.
This pursuit of excellence will take patience, but we’re thrilled to be off and running.
What goes in matters
Safety
The beauty industry has come a long way in the past ten years—it is so much cleaner thanks to environmental health advocates, leading brands and updated federal policies. But there are still chemicals of concern—and chemicals that have no safety data at all—that cosmetic companies can legally use in their products.
Of Course We Have a “NO” List
We know that even small amounts of certain chemicals can be harmful to people and animals, and that some chemicals persist or build up in the environment, so we will avoid those (even when they're allowed for use in skincare).
We have a robust Restricted Substances List (RSL) that meets and exceeds Canada, US, and EU regulatory requirements. Our RSL is aligned with retail's most robust list—Credo Beauty's. Chemicals like parabens, phthalates, PFAS and thousands of others are on this RSL.
ChemFORWARD Database
We assess all of our ingredients using ChemFORWARD's globally harmonized chemical hazard dataset. Atmosphera is a member of the Know Better, Do Better Collaborative, inspired by poet Maya Angelou who said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.”
Sustainability
To Atmosphera, sustainability is how ingredients, materials and systems are managed along their lifecycle. How they’re grown, harvested, manufactured, processed, and fueled. Everything humans and companies do and make has a sustainability impact– from ingredients, packaging, transportation, product usage, and disposal.
From seed to skin
Ingredients
Atmosphera uses dozens of beautiful, plant-derived ingredients like Aloe, Red Raspberry Seed Oil, Kelp Extract, Rosehip Oil, and Kakadu Plum Extract. We’re setting a big sustainability goal:
By 2028, 50% or more of our natural ingredients will be sustainably grown or harvested, whether that is certified organic, regenerative, upcycled or otherwise verifiable.
We will prioritize ingredients that pose concerns regarding conventional growing methods (e.g., those more likely to involve harmful pesticide application or grown on plantations). We are committed to more resilient skin and ecosystems, which requires clean, responsible ingredients.
(Note that not all of the ingredients we formulate with are natural–we do use safer synthetics and naturally-derived ingredients. As we mentioned, we screen ingredients using ChemForward, and our products are compliant with Canada, EU and US regulations, and with The Credo Clean Standard(™).)
Shipping and Packaging
Atmosphera uses only carbon neutral shipping for our customers, and we encourage ground shipping over air, which is much more carbon intensive
Did you know that overnight air shipping has a significantly higher environmental impact than ground shipping? Ground shipping can result in a 36% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, and slower methods (e.g. 4 days) pushes that reduction to 56%.
All of the materials in our shippers are curbside recyclable, and made from sustainably sourced papers (e.g. FSC certified forest products) and/or recycled content (e.g. 100% recycled cardstock for inserts). Our product cartons are recyclable with paper.
Our oils and serums are in glass bottles, which are curbside recyclable (pumps/droppers need to go in the trash or to Pact). We know that some of our (beautiful but plastic) primary packaging needs to come a long way in terms of sustainability– The Moisturizer bottles, caps and pumps are currently not curbside recyclable.
We recognize the need for material reduction, more recycled content and better end-of-life outcomes (meaning recyclability, refills and maybe even compostable components!).
Rest assured, we will find packaging that is both environmentally and consumer friendly– we are already working on it!
Pact Collective
We are proud members of Pact Collective and will be actively connecting our Affiliates with local Pact Collection bins or mail-in collection mini-bins for our packaging that is not curbside recyclable. We hope that in the future most of the packaging will be curbside recyclable or refillable, but like most skincare brands, we’re just not there yet.
If we have unsellable products (due to overages or misprints), we pledge to donate them to shelters for women so they can be enjoyed and not wasted. (Many (probably most) brands send perfectly good but unsellable products to the landfill or incinerator, unfortunately. Not Atmosphera.)
rePurpose Global
We are proud to partner with rePurpose Global, a social enterprise that helps companies to address their plastic waste while transforming local economies and environments. We use rePurpose Global’s platform to manage and measure our packaging footprint so that we can improve over time.
At US launch in April 2026, Atmosphera made a Plastic Recovery Pledge– a promise to remove a minimum of 20,000 lbs of plastic from communities and waterways in heavily impacted areas.
Why? Because our oceans are in crisis: plastic waste–much of it from consumer packaged goods made in the US, are already literally choking animals and building up in the food chain, and volumes are expected to triple by 2040. We are proud to work with rePurpose to reduce plastic packaging in the environment while we also reduce our own packaging footprint.
Atmosphera Community Commitment
Atmosphera exists to create a positive impact on people and the planet. That commitment includes how we treat one another, and the respect that we show to all stakeholders, from the corporate team, to the field, to the customer, as well as those that make up our supply chain and create our technology. We must be respectful and responsible in order to build community and create a culture in service to our mission.
We are a company made up of individuals with different backgrounds, life experiences, world views. We do not require agreement or consensus. We do require peaceful and professional acceptance of differences.
Every person in the Atmosphera community deserves to be treated with kindness and dignity, regardless of their age, race, color, creed, sex, gender, ability, size, language, or status. This is not a political position; it is a basic standard of professionalism, team building and collective work, rooted in respect.
Within Atmosphera spaces — whether they be internal meetings, in-person gatherings or public events, or in online channels — we expect conduct that reflects integrity, courtesy, and care. No one should be dismissed, diminished, or excluded because of who they are. At the same time, individuals’ personal beliefs remain their own. Our shared responsibility as a brand community is to collaborate in ways that support our mission to positively impact people and the planet.
Atmosphera values responsible business practices, thoughtful partnerships, and a culture where people can work confidently, safely and constructively — even when they see the world differently.
This is the community commitment that we will uphold.
Transparency
We are deeply committed to responsibility-- from how we source materials, to thoughtful partnerships. We are transparent about what we can do better in the future, which is how we model responsibility, and how we grow. We source natural, naturally-derived and synthetic materials, and we seek to understand their processing as far back into the supply chain as possible, as well as the end points (e.g. on skin, down the drain, or in the trash or recycling bin).
We are dedicated to full disclosure on packaging materials, and how to properly dispose of them. This is important to avoid “wishcycling” and contamination in the recycling system. In the future, we will also ensure that all packaging is clearly marked with its resin code for proper identification and recycling at the end of use.