BLF-Ecoscore®: A Turnkey Tool to Assess the Environmental Impact of Your Candles

Measure and improve your product’s environmental impact with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) through BLF-Ecoscore®

At BLF Private Label, innovation and responsibility go hand in hand. Thanks to our exclusive in-house tool, Ecoscore®, brands receive tailored support to design more sustainable scented candles and home fragrance products. Based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), this tool quantifies a product’s environmental impact at every stage of its production — a strategic asset for committed brands.

In an era of heightened transparency, brands can no longer rely on promises alone — they must measure, prove, and improve the impact of their scented candles. For home fragrance stakeholders, this means rethinking formulation, materials, packaging, and logistics.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is now the gold standard for objectively evaluating a product’s overall environmental impact — from raw materials to end-of-life. It covers all stages of the product lifecycle:

• Raw material extraction
• Manufacturing and packaging
• Transport and distribution
• Use phase
• End of life (recycling, incineration, etc.)

To support its clients in this process, BLF Private Label created Ecoscore®, a turnkey tool designed to:

• Evaluate the environmental performance of each candle or fragrance product
• Compare multiple development scenarios (wax types, packaging, sourcing origins, etc.)
• Guide design decisions toward more sustainable solutions
• Support the brand’s CSR communication with tangible data and easy-to-understand indicators

The environmental score is presented as a clear, visual summary chart, making it easy to use both internally and in marketing communications.

From the earliest brief stages, our R&D, purchasing, and quality teams can use the tool to assess the potential environmental impact of different design options.

Key evaluation criteria include:

• Origin and type of raw materials (plant-based, mineral, recycled, etc.)
• Sourcing distance
• Manufacturing method (energy use, waste generation, etc.)
• Packaging type (mono-material, recyclable, compostable, etc.)
• End-of-life processing compatibility

Every decision has a measurable impact — Ecoscore® makes it visible, enabling brands to make informed choices between option A and option B.

Unlike generic calculators, Ecoscore® was specifically developed for the home fragrance sector, with its unique challenges in formulation, packaging, and product usage.

It also factors in the aesthetic and sensory requirements of the luxury and perfumery industries.
The result: refined scoring adapted to high-value products, reconciling design, sensoriality, and eco-design — instead of compromising one for the other.

Here are a few real-world examples where the Ecoscore® tool helped improve client projects:

• Replacing a multilayer container with a recyclable glass jar
• Switching to glue-free, ink-free packaging for better recyclability
• Optimizing logistics by sourcing entirely from within France
• Replacing a ZAMAK lid with a 100% aluminum alternative

These optimizations reduced environmental impact and improved waste recovery.