Add These 8 Planet-Friendly Summer Beauty Picks to Your Sephora Cart ASAP

Start your day bright-eyed with a formula that smoothes, hydrates, and reduces the appearance of fine lines. Biossance’s signature squalane is a cruelty-free, sugar-based alternative to squalene (which is derived from sharks and commonly used in beauty products), and the swap saves two million sharks every year.

Turn your gaze toward hydration with this seriously moisturizing face cream, designed to target signs of aging. Like all Youth to the People products, it’s packaged in a glass container and recyclable paper, and it supports nonprofits committed to sustainability. It’s an ultra dewy glow with an eco-conscious MO.

Prep your face for makeup with this every-age cream, which relies on aloe, squalane, and vitamin C to hydrate and improve dullness. Via its partnership with Grand Teton National Park Foundation, alpyn is the first and only skin care brand to sustainably harvest wild plants from the mountains of Jackson Hole. All the Western chic vibes, activated.

With the busy to-and-fro tempo of the season, you’re all about simplifying your routine. A natural, medium-coverage foundation that doubles as sunscreen is a solid place to start. In more than 30 shades, you’re bound to find your complexion’s perfect match—and feel great wearing it, since every tube is made from biomaterials, free of microplastics, and designed with recyclability in mind.

Sun-kissed without the sun damage? It’s a win-win. Oatmeal, grapeseed oil, and elderberry extract infuse this creamy, lightweight, buildable bronzer, which is available in four shades. And when it comes to eco-consciousness, Saie recovers at least twice as much ocean-bound plastic as it uses in production, and plans to become totally carbon-neutral by 2023. Go ahead, exhale.

After a busy summer day flitting from beach to barre to bars, ease into your nighttime routine with a makeup-removing face cleanser. This balm cuts through SPF, dirt, and oil with tons of hydration and zero residue. You’ll sleep especially well knowing Farmacy partners with Feeding America to minimize food waste and donate millions of meals to people in need.

It’s an almost-too-good-to-be-true trifecta. Give your skin some TLC, reduce the impacts of climate change, and support local communities—with a single, super chic bottle. While this oil-free, radiance-boosting serum smoothes your face, Caudalie is busy planting trees (as in, nine million to date) to preserve biodiversity and create jobs.

Post-serum, hydrate with this peptide-powered formula designed to target eye-area wrinkles with natural ingredients like lavender, safflower, and buckwheat. Follow with moisturizer and rest well knowing that Tata Harper Skincare partners with Trees for the Future to revitalize forest acres, sequester (literal) tons of carbon, and help people out of poverty.