Farrow & Ball is owned by the company Hempel. 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.

Hempel appears to have recently enhanced and expanded their sustainability efforts. We see some solid signs that the company is integrating sustainability into their strategy and operations. They are making some progress on their climate efforts. But the company doesn’t appear to offer much information about ingredient or chemical safety, a topic that is highly relevant given their products. And while the company seems to have real efforts underway on issues related to creating benefits for people we were unable to find the kind of substantiation we need. As a result, they didn’t score particularly well on some of our evaluation criteria in those categories. We did note that they have a rather unique ownership structure, which could allow the company to lean into sustainability in a faster and more effective way than other companies (should they so choose).