Dr. Bronner's
Evaluation Completed:
June 3, 2025
Adults
Bathroom
Personal Care
Kitchen
Evaluation Summary
Company Insights
Dr. Bronner’s offers a great example of leadership on some sustainability issues. The company scored particularly well on our People Benefits criteria. Many of their products have a number of certifications that we hold in particularly high regard. But we struggled at times to find sufficient information on specific topics included in our criteria. The company is a registered Public Benefit Corporation demonstrating real leadership when it comes to aligning their mission and their business decisions. They are very active on the public policy front, advocating on a variety of issues relevant to their industry and ethical business more broadly.
Ingredient Safety
Foundational Gaps
Solid Baseline
Strong Performance
Hilde Likes
Verified ingredient safety efforts
This company makes a significant number of products that have at least one high-quality ingredient safety certification
Opportunities for Improvement
None Identified
Category Definition
Our ingredient safety evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company measures, manages, and discloses, the use of chemicals of concern that may be present in raw materials, ingredients, manufacturing processes, and finished products.
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.
Environmental Impact
Foundational Gaps
Solid Baseline
Strong Performance
Hilde Likes
Verified environmental impact reduction efforts
This company makes a significant number of products or uses a higher percentage of raw materials and ingredients in their products that feature a higher quality certification related to environmental impacts
Opportunities for Improvement
Bolder action on climate impacts
We think this company should start measuring and reducing Scope 3 emissions along with publishing a decarbonization transition plan
Formalizing biodiversity protection efforts
We would like to see this company build on their initial efforts related to more sustainable raw materials production by establishing an internal biodiversity protection policy and goal
Category Definition
Our environmental impact reduction evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company measures, manages, and discloses information about the impacts that their operations, products, and supply chain may have on our air, land, water, and ecosystems.
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.
Worker Fairness
Foundational Gaps
Solid Baseline
Strong Performance
Hilde Likes
Verified social impact efforts
This company makes a significant number of products or uses a higher percentage of raw materials and ingredients in their products that feature a higher quality certification for people benefits
Top performer on benefits for people
This brand goes above and beyond the status quo when it comes to treating people fairly and ensuring they have an equitable supply chain and responsibly produced raw materials
Opportunities for Improvement
None Identified
Category Definition
Our worker fairness evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company measures, manages, and discloses information about the way they treat their employees, workers in their supply chain, and other stakeholders.
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.
Accountability
Foundational Gaps
Solid Baseline
Strong Performance
Hilde Likes
Systems change through advocacy
This company appears to be setting a leadership example for public policy advocacy on ingredient safety and sustainability issues at the state or federal level.
Opportunities for Improvement
None Identified
Category Defition
Our corporate accountability evaluation criteria are designed to help us determine how a company integrates sustainability across their organization to help govern decision making and engage with external stakeholders in socially responsible ways.
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.