No more preconceived ideas about concrete. It is becoming a new trendy material in skincare (it was already a trendy material in decoration)! La Crème Libre reinvents the look of the cream jar and imagines a design concrete jar, artisanal, refillable, in eight colors and two sizes.
Who would have thought it? Concrete is a solid (unbreakable), creative, durable material and its manufacturing process is energy efficient.
Judge for yourself: a durable concrete jar = only 84 g of CO2 compared to 92 for glass (100 for PP plastic, 312 for aluminum). Concrete is composed of white cement (clay + limestone), fine white sand and water.
La Crème Libre’s concrete jars (with a cork-lined base and lid) are handmade in a workshop in Champagne-Ardenne. All the materials that make up the range (ten references) come from France. The cork comes from a family company in Hossegor (labeled a living heritage company), the natural pigments come from the last French coloring earth factory located in the Ardennes and the water used is rainwater collected in the garden of the craftsman who produces the concrete pots! He is also a farmer and offsets the CO2 emission linked to the manufacturing process by planting a hundred apple trees per year in his orchards.
The concrete pots are refillable or reusable in decorative boxes so they are never thrown away. They come in eight colors (pink beige, terracotta, off-white, mineral blue, duck green, concrete gray, anthracite, taupe). As for …