# Prose

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Health + Beauty
**Website:** https://prose.com
**Sustainability page:** https://prose.com/values-and-impact#environment

## Sustainability story

Reconceptualizing the beauty industry through AI-powered, personalized products that offer an alternative to mass production.

Prose is a DTC beauty-tech company leading in customized beauty, creating made-to-order hair and skin products to disrupt the CPG company. Clean ingredients and made-to-order manufacturing translate to an outsized impact on the wellness of the world by reducing overproduction and excess inventory. Prose prioritizes doing good for people and the planet with eco-friendly packaging and promoting recycling initiatives.

## Emissions (2025)

**Methodology:** Prose's emissions inventory uses a mix of spending and activity-based data. An independent third party verification ensures accuracy and completeness of the inventory. The Change Climate team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 687 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 191 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 191 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 14,796 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 14,796 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 15,673 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 15,673 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per unit of product — unit of product

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4.4 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4.95 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 687 | 191 | 14,796 | 2.5 |

## Reduction plans

### Science-aligned targets
- We commit to reducing 2020 Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions 33% by 2030. (completion: 60%)

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce upstream freight emissions through the movement of our Dry Shampoo Sourcing from Europe to the United States. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions by decreasing upstream freight for our purchased goods and raw materials. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce our Downstream Transportation emissions through changing the mode of transportation for all outbound orders to customers. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q1 2023, completion: 90%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing sources for raw materials as well as better vetting our current and future suppliers. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2023, completion: 40%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce our Purchased Goods and Services emissions through changing suppliers as well as certain systems for our purchased goods. (source: Packaging, target: Q3 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce waste from operational fulfilment 25% through incorporating reusable totes at our Liberty View Manufacturing Warehouse. (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2024, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy for remote work to reduce office energy consumption by 20%. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy for low-carbon business travel to reduce the impact of travel to the Paris office by 25% for Executive Team. (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2024, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 1** — Install onsite solar panels to power 50% the energy use in Los Angeles manufacturing facilty. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q4 2025, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 3** — Manufacture goods closer to our consumers to reduce miles traveled 50% across west coast downstream freight. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q4 2025, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 3** — Develop refillable container for skincare products (source: Packaging, target: 2027, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Increase the level of recycled content in our packagings (source: Packaging, target: 2027, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Invest in more sustainable ingredients (from organic farming, regenerative agriculture or obtained through more sustainable farming practices or processes) (source: Raw materials, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $335,256.26

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $335,256.26
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] LED Lights for LA Factory (Energy efficiency, Efficiency & Electrification): $164,441
- [VCA] Centralized Packout System (Energy efficiency, Efficiency & Electrification): $74,944.26
- [VCA] Energy-efficient HVAC technology (Energy efficiency, Efficiency & Electrification): $95,871

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