Kim Kardashian, the Unlikeliest of Sustainable Beauty Champions, Takes Up the Torch

Jill Ettinger
10 min readAug 4, 2021

The Body Shop and Aveda sparked a sustainable, clean beauty revolution nearly fifty years ago. Now the Kardashians are stepping in.

The natural beauty industry has come a long way in the last half-century. And in a surprising twist, the Kardashian family, long the antithesis of “natural”, may just be the ones to stamp sustainability and ingredient integrity into permanence. Can they really do it?

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