Clean & Clear

Evaluation Completed: 
April 16, 2025
Adults
Bathroom

Clean & Clear is owned by the company Kenvue. Hilde evaluates parent companies rather than individual brands. You can read more about why we think this approach is more helpful for consumers on our blog. Kenvue is an absolute behemoth of a company, owning dozens of consumer brands including popular baby and personal care ones like Aveeno and Zarbee’s Naturals. There are some solid efforts underway at the company related to addressing their environmental impacts and creating benefits for people. But we are not particularly impressed with their overall approach in the ingredient safety arena - there are some gaps that need to be filled. We think there are real opportunities for leadership on environmental impact issues if the company decided to mature its programs and adopt a context-based approach to sustainability. We also see the need for more robust corporate accountability measures.

Hilde Status:

Avoid

Consider

Recommended

We try to avoid purchasing or using products made by this company or their brands in our homes.
We may decide to purchase or use products made by this company or their brands in our homes when other options are not accessible.
Hilde Ratings
Topic
Rating
Ingredient Safety
Environmental impact
People Benefits
Governance
Hilde Approved Certifications
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Forest Stewardship Council
Hilde Likes

Focusing on packaging sustainability

Good paid parental leave policy

Holistic approach to addressing environmental impacts

Public disclosure and reporting

Opportunities for Improvement

Aligning political activities

Transitioning to a more protective ingredient safety approach

Benchmarking ingredient safety practices

Adopting a context-based approach to sustainability

Verification of benefits for people efforts

Bolder action on climate impacts

Additional Information
Parent Company:
Kenvue
Owned Brands:
None
Product Types:
Face care, skin care, body care, cosmetics

Evaluation Summary

Basic
Advanced
Leadership
Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes
None Identified
Opportunities for Improvement

Benchmarking ingredient safety practices

We would like to see this company participate in the Chemical Footprint Policy to help benchmark their policies and practices against other companies publicly share their results

Transitioning to a more protective ingredient safety approach

This company has built a solid framework for evaluating ingredient safety but we would like to see them move from a risk-based approach to a more precautionary one based on hazard

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes

Focusing on packaging sustainability

The environmental impact of packaging from some kinds of products is significant but challenging to address and we value that this company is using circular design strategies to help address this issue

Holistic approach to addressing environmental impacts

This company is a top performer in their industry when it comes to tackling the most important environmental impacts associated with their business and supply chain

Opportunities for Improvement

Bolder action on climate impacts

The company should start measuring and reducing Scope 3 emissions along with publishing a decarbonization transition plan

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes

Good paid parental leave policy

We appreciate that this company offers this benefit globally to all types parents.

Opportunities for Improvement

Verification of benefits for people efforts

This company should start using or expand their use of trustworthy certifications related to strengthen their claims related to creating benefits for people

Foundational Gaps

The company does not meet sufficient baseline criteria for this category and has many opportunities for improvement.

Solid Baseline

The company meets most of our basic criteria and sometimes demonstrates a deeper commitment than other companies on issues in this category.

Strong Performance:

The company appears to be a top performer in this evaluation category and exhibits leadership on one or more of the issues we evaluate.

Hilde Likes

Public disclosure and reporting

This company provides helpful disclosure on their efforts through annual reporting on sustainability or ESG topics for consumers or other stakeholders

Opportunities for Improvement

Aligning political activities

We would like to see this company undertake and publicly disclose the outcomes of efforts to evaluate and align their political activities, issue advocacy, and trade association memberships with their publicly stated values and policies

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