Consumers And Sustainability: Personal Care
Consumers and Sustainability: Personal Care
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This report forms part of a series jointly published by The Hartman Group and Packaged Facts on Consumers and Sustainability. This four-part series covers in separate reports the markets for foods and beverages, personal care products, household cleaners, and OTC medications and supplements.
Sustainability means different things to different people. Asked to identify what the term means to them, consumers most frequently respond the ability to last over time (76%) and the ability to support oneself. Sustainability is also strongly associated with environmental concerns, whereby consumers are being challenged to develop and express an eco-consciousness in their daily habits and purchases. Thus, nearly half of consumers associate sustainability with conserving natural resources and with recycling.
But using eco-conscious or green as synonymous with sustainability unduly limits the term. Green falls short as a description for the variety of social, economic and environmental issues that real-world individuals believe are important to sustaining themselves, their communities, and society at large. Adoption of sustainable products mirrors the health and wellness progression that The Hartman Group has previously reported, in which consumers first consider the impacts of things in the body, followed by on the body, and finally around the body.
As consumers become more educated about the environmental, social, and economic implications of their shopping habits, their health and wellness motivations dovetail with societal concerns, such that four zones of sustainability become relevant to purchasing choices:
The Personal Benefit Zone
The Environmental Zone
The Social Zone
The Economic Zone
Within the personal care marketwhich includes cleansers, soap, moisturizer, deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, cosmetics and fragrancespersonal health and wellness needs are the most important factor in what motivates a consumer to purchase a sustainable product. However, attributes such as chemical free and not tested on animals are also frequent considerations for conventional and alternative personal care products alike.
Consumers often review the ingredients contained in a personal care product looking for recognizable, pronounceable ingredients as an indication of naturalness. Although the term natural has lost significance in other categories, it remains a meaningful term to reference a variety of sustainable personal care product attributes that also signify quality to consumers.
Series Methodology
This report series was jointly produced by The Hartman Group and Packaged Facts, and is based on The Hartman Groups 2009 multi-category study, Sustainability: The Rise of Consumer Responsibility. In addition, Packaged Facts provides an update of consumer attitudes and spending based on a proprietary online poll conducted in February 2009 and on Experian Simmons surveys fielded from November 2008 to June 2009.
The Hartman Group Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
This report draws primarily on an online survey of 1,856 U.S. adults conducted in September 2008 by The Hartman Group to understand consumer attitudes and behaviors related to sustainability. The sample was drawn from a panel of adult U.S. consumers with Internet access, and was designed to provide good representation of the U.S. population according to geographic area, age, gender, race and income. The Hartman Group also conducted qualitative research on sustainability in three markets (Seattle, Dallas, and Columbus) during August 2008, using consumer ethnography with fifty consumers as the cornerstone of qualitative research. Ethnographic interviews included one-on-one conversations at an individuals home or at a specific retail setting, as well as group interviews also at consumers homes. These engagements garnered more than 100 hours of in-depth, revelatory consumer discussion.
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