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Aesop's brown glass bottles aren't a style choice. Its plant-based formulas degrade when exposed to ultraviolet light, so the dark amber glass exists purely to block UV. Rather than disguising this functional constraint, Aesop turned it into its signature look.
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  • Ultraviolet
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  • Cosmetics
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