In recent years, the beauty industry has significantly shifted towards sustainability and embraced natural product ingredients and packaging. Blue biotechnology, which focuses on utilizing marine organisms for various applications, has recently emerged as a promising, sustainable, and effective cosmetic ingredient source. From ingredients like algae to seaweed, marine-derived ingredients will increase in popularity in the beauty industry, and for a good reason. 

Renewable energy, also sometimes called clean energy, consists of naturally replenishable, flow-limited, inexhaustible resources such as sunlight, wind, or water. These energies, while not always consistent and limited in the amount of energy available for a unit of time, will not be used up like fossil fuels.