Sustainability in the beauty industry is notoriously difficult, with brands often coming under fire for using plastic packaging and toxic ingredients that have a negative impact on the environment.
But robotics students at MIT in Boston have found a beautiful solution to the problem.
Enter the Sprout Makeup Pencil – an eyeliner or brow pencil that can be planted once you’ve done using it.
In just a few weeks your once useless makeup pencil can grow into a cute bunch of wildflowers.
And you don’t have to be particularly green fingered to do it.
Once the pencil becomes too small to use, you simply flip it upside down, and plant the end into a pot of damp soil.
The plant-based soluble cellulose capsule hidden inside the pencil dissolves and ta-da, your makeup pencil will have bloomed within one to two weeks. The pencil itself completely degrades when buried, making it zero waste.
The clever invention is a spin off from the original Sprout Pencil, the world’s only plantable pencil, which once planted can grown into vegetables, edible herbs, flowers and even Christmas trees.
A staggering fifty million pencils have been sold worldwide, and famous fans include Michelle Obama, Richard Branson, the French President. They’ve even been ordered by the Vatican.
Every element of the pencil is made from natural, kind-to-skin ingredients and materials, and it’s 100% natural and ethically sourced.
They’re also plastic and paraben free, and cruelty-free.
You can buy the Sprout Makeup Pencil from £8.99 from Amazon
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