Brand Profile: Davines

Davines: Making beauty sustainably.

Davines was founded in 1983 in Parma, Italy, by the Bollati family. They started as a research laboratory, producing high-end hair care products for renowned cosmetic companies worldwide! After a decade, Davines began creating their own hair care products exclusively for salons! After that, they began expanding and now have offices in New York, London, Paris, Mexico City, Deventer (Netherlands), and Hong Kong.

Scientific Garden
The Davines Scientific Garden is their open-air lab, which is a place of inspiration and beauty inside the Davines Village. This garden allows their researchers to investigate the properties of plants, new essences and ingredients behind the professional formulas created in their laboratories. The Scientific Garden provides a direct link to their products, growing a lot of the key ingredients right there in-house. A few of these ingredients include Sunflower, Artichoke, Lavender, Rosemary, Agastache, Echinacea, and Lemon.

Davines Village
The Davines Village is their headquarters, which is carbon neutral and is devoted to energy sustainability, waste reduction, optimization of natural resources, and savings of non-renewable resources. The energy needs of the offices are met by 100% certified renewable sources, such as photovoltaic panels, a solar thermal system, and a geothermal system.

Italian Slow Food Presidium
Davines practices Slow Food Presidium, which helps to rescue plant species that are at risk of extinction. Every Essential Haircare collection contains a unique active ingredient that is grown by an Italian farmers who work to preserve unique ingredients that are at risk of extinction. The local farmers behind each family represent a different ingredient, which is now utilized as an active part of each formula!

Sustainability
Davines is focused on sustainability, lowering their emissions, advocating for regenerative organic agriculture, using recycled plastic packaging, and is B Corp Certified. For a company to become B Corp Certified, it must meet the highest sustainability standards. Davines works daily to advance their advocacy and accountability on sustainability issues, sharing the experience and values of the B Corp movement and communicating their commitment to continuous improvement.

Davines is committed to making the highest quality products that meet high ethical standards. For this reason, Davines does not test their products, or the ingredients used in formulations, on animals, and they don't delegate this type of testing to third parties. Davines is working to achieve Leaping Bunny approval.

Davines relies on renewable and eco-sustainable sources whose origins are traceable, of natural origin, biological or eco-certified, biodegradable, and those that allow them to respect and encourage biodiversity. Their products meet clean beauty standards, and there is a collection within the brand to suit the needs of all hair types and textures!