We’re an ethical brand building a community that’s fair and inclusive for all. We want to do our bit to positively impact people; from helping our customers create self-care rituals through to ensuring the welfare of our staff and suppliers, making sure we always give back wherever we can. This is a huge part of Peggy Sue and has been integral to our partnership with Destiny Rescue. 

We donate $1 from every sale via our website to help fight sexual exploitation. For us, it was important that we could work with a local charity to create an impact around the world. We believe nobody should ever fall harm to abuse and Destiny Rescue has operations in 7 countries with over 250 staff and volunteers who work tirelessly to fight sexual exploitation and trafficking of children through rescue, reintegration, and prevention. They are a recognized member of The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), who are the peak body for Australian non-government organizations (NGOs) involved in international development. 81% of every dollar they receive goes directly to their programs, while the rest goes into administrative or fundraising initiatives that allow Destiny Rescue to grow even further and protect more children. 

The journey ahead…. 

As Peggy Sue continues to grow, we’re committed to creating meaningful impacts as we strive toward a better future. For us, this means working toward gaining more transparency across our supply chain to really make sure that every step of the process is as ethical as possible. 

Peggy Sue acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. 

We know first hand the many challenges life can throw at us and taking the time for self-care is not always easy. But we hope to inspire and help educate people on the benefits of everyday self-care to create healthier communities. For us, self-care is all about creating moments that can help preserve or improve our wellbeing and reduce stress. 

BENEFITS OF SELF-CARE:

1. Can improve emotional and physical health 

2. Relaxation response to manage stress 

3. Offers time alone 

We believe that your skin deserves the absolute best, and natural ingredients provide you with just that. We hope that through incorporating our products as part of your regular self-care ritual, you are able to slow down and get off the treadmill of life, allowing yourself to recenter, restore and be present for not only you, but also those around you. 

Over the years we have donated products to the Wollongong Homeless Hub who support homeless families, youth and individuals or those at risk of homelessness. Those products were designed to help support those in our local community that are going through unsettling or hard times to provide a loving moment of self-care and relief. 

The Journey Ahead...

Peggy Sue is all about community, we believe healthier, happier people create thriving communities. Our future focus will be developed in 2022, so watch this space for more news. We’re always inspired when we see the impact Peggy Sue has on people, so if you’re open to sharing we’d love to hear your self-care stories to keep up the good word in our community and beyond! 

Across the majority of our refill range, we have maintained glass, now with aluminium lids and PET labels. Previously, our bottles were fully coated, but we learnt that this can prevent the glass being detected as glass during sorting for recycling, meaning it was unlikely to be recycled. To this, we also consciously removed pumps and glass droppers, as these are also problematic to recycle. 

Aluminium can be infinitely recycled, so we decided to move our lids to improve recyclability and work with our new aluminium bottles. Our PET labels provide the water resistance needed for our self-care regimes and glass is fully recyclable and provides great longevity for refill, so you can keep using your 

bottles for as long as possible. Please head to our FAQs to learn of a top tip on how to improve our glass recyclability by removing our labels! 

For our bath shots and cleansers, we have moved our packaging to use aluminium. Aluminium provides greater durability than glass for products that are more prone to being used in the shower/ bath and prevents breakage. They can be easily cleaned and refilled to maximise their life and if no longer needed, fully recyclable. 

Our refill pouches are made of flexible plastics now proudly part of the RedCycle scheme. This means, once you’ve topped up your reusable bottle, the pouches can be rinsed and returned to participating stores to be recycled. Using refill pouches is really important in keeping our overall packaging footprint low, they help us to reuse our bottles and jars as much as possible. 

Our lip range now comes in beautiful FSc certified cardboard tubes. Our previous tubes were a wood/ polymer combination (so, really difficult to recycle as the materials couldn’t be easily separated). While our cardboard tubes are made from recyclable materials, their size and shape unfortunately do impact 

how they are identified in material recovery facilities (where all kerbside recycling goes to be sorted before being recycled). We’ve been testing how we can overcome this, so head to our FAQs page for a tip on how to improve our tube’s recyclability. 

 The cello bags used across our Wellness Range are home compostable. Alternatively place in your food or garden organics recycling bin if your local council accepts it. 

All our secondary packaging (so the boxes some products come in) and our gifting boxes are all made from FSc certified cardboard. This means that they’re sourced from responsible forestry practises. This level of certification means that our suppliers are committed to the safety and preservation of the world’s forest systems, everything living in and around them. 

Our inks are chosen to be as sustainable as possible within print and our suppliers capabilities. For all our cardboard, labels and stickers we use vegetable based inks. These are from renewable resources and are easily recycled. Our aluminium bottles require a more durable enamel ink suitable for application on to metal. We will continue to work with suppliers for the use of water based inks as an alternative solution for these. Currently, our pouches use a petroleum based ink, while this is not the perfect solution we were hoping to find, but we will continue to work with our suppliers to move to a water-based alternative

To protect our self-care goodies in delivery, we now use 3D honeycomb FSc certified and recyclable wrap paper. Each refill bottle or jar needs to be protected so our wrappers are essential to making sure your refills arrive safely. We also include our Peggy Sue paper wrapping to provide an extra layer of protection. 

Each delivery you receive, be it your first refill bottle, or a refill pouch will come in one of our mailer posters. Currently this is the only cardboard we use that is not FSc certified, but we’re looking to upgrade our mailers later this year to bring them in line with our Peggy Sue packaging. 

Beyond our packaging, we recently conducted a Bin Trim Assessment to understand how we can maximise recycling and as a priority minimise waste to landfill from our warehouse. This identified companies we can partner with to ensure our harder to recycle products can be safely recycled or repurposed and it was also oh so informative! The Flagstaff Group offers the collection of film and soft 

plastics in order to recycle responsibly. It helped educate our team on best practices in regards to recyclable materials in the workplace so we’re collectively minimising the amount of waste from Peggy Sue ending up in landfill. Did you know you cannot recycle paper towels!? We have also implemented segregated bin systems to capture general waste and recyclables in shared spaces and put our learnings into action every day! 

We will continue to promote the use of our refill system so it remains our ‘norm’ and continue to find ways to improve the refill process through better product formulations (such as our pourable Facial Cleanser) or packaging features. 

Beyond this, we will be looking at how we can source and use recycled content into our glass and refill pouches. This will help us to use materials already in circulation and prevent the need to use ‘new’ material.