Resources
Compliance, K-beauty science, and operational guides for hotel and superyacht amenity programmes.
The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation enters general force in August 2026. For Balearic hotels, it is not even the most pressing regulation they are not complying with. This guide covers both.
Read →This is not an argument that European cosmetic formulation is bad. It is not. The question for hotel buyers is narrower: which approach produces better-performing products for intensive guest use?
Read →Most operators who add K-beauty to their amenity brief are thinking about aesthetics. The science behind the claim is rarely what drives the decision. This is a guide to the science.
Read →Switching from miniatures to a pump dispenser satisfies the format requirement under Balearic Law 8/2019. It does not automatically make your amenity system compliant. Here is what the other three requirements are.
Read →Most hotels assume their amenity supplier has handled CPNP registration. Many have not — at least not for every product in the range. Here is what the registration actually requires, and how to check.
Read →Balearic Law 8/2019 is the strictest hotel amenity regulation in the EU. It predates PPWR. It predates Spain's national plastic framework. And it has been in force since 2019. If your Balearic property is still using single-use plastic miniatures, you are already non-compliant.
Read →The Spanish hotel amenity market looks more crowded than it is. There are plenty of distributors. There are very few genuine formulation partners. Knowing the difference matters more than most procurement processes acknowledge.
Read →The upfront investment in a bespoke amenity programme is higher than a single-use replacement. The total cost over a season is usually lower. And there is a retail revenue opportunity that the single-use model makes structurally impossible.
Read →Two things are happening at the same time: regulation is removing the single-use plastic option, and the licensed brand model has stopped working. The properties treating this as one decision rather than two will come out ahead.
Read →The hygiene concern around refillable dispensers is real — but it is almost entirely a problem of bad implementation, not the format itself. Here is what the science actually says.
Read →Aesop stopped being a luxury signal when it hit every airport duty-free. The guest most likely to stay in your hotel already owns it. You're paying a licence premium for a product that no longer impresses them.
Read →Most amenity suppliers have never designed for a marine environment. These are the five questions that separate a genuine partner from someone who will send you hotel-spec miniatures in a different box.
Read →Switching to a generic refillable dispenser is compliance. It is not a brand decision. The two requirements — regulatory and experiential — can be solved with the same programme.
Read →Most hotels in the Balearics are already non-compliant — and don't know it. The plastic ban came before any national or EU deadline. Here's the full picture.
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