Grove Collaborative
Evaluation Completed:
March 4, 2025
Adults
Bathroom
Kitchen
Evaluation Summary
Company Insights
Grove Collaborative is an interesting brand for us to review for a variety of reasons. The company manufactures their own products under the Grove Co. brand (e.g. cleaning & laundry) and has an online retail offering that includes numerous other brands and product categories. In evaluating their ingredient safety & sustainability practices we’re considering their in-house brand and not the policies and practices of the companies that make other brands that Grove Collaborative sells. Our evaluation turned up some solid results across the board, particularly on the people benefits and accountability criteria. We think they offer a great option for families.
Ingredient Safety
Foundational Gaps
Solid Baseline
Strong Performance
Hilde Likes
Benchmarking ingredient safety practices
It is helpful to see that this company has participated in the Chemical Footprint Policy to help benchmark their policies and practices against other companies but they should make the results public
Opportunities for Improvement
Adopting retail ingredient safety standards
Clearly define and disclose ingredient safety standards and approach for all for products made by other brands that the company sells
Better claims substantiation on ingredient safety
We would like to see more and better information related to this company's ingredient safety claims
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
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
Leadership in packaging sustainability
We respect the industry-leading efforts this company is making to reduce the impacts of their packaging
Opportunities for Improvement
None Identified
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
Commitment to living wages in the supply chain
We respect that this company supports living wages for people who are employed by companies in their supply chain
Solid responsible sourcing efforts
This company appears to identify the right priorities and have a credible approach to improving the sustainability of their supply chain.
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
Increasing supply chain transparency
We believe this company could be providing better transparency about where they source raw materials and where their products are manufactured
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
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
Adopting a context-based approach to sustainability
We think this company is ready to take a leadership position by measuring and managing performance against planetary boundaries and thresholds to assess true operational sustainability
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.