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The Honest Company

The Honest Company

Evaluation Completed: 
May 5, 2025
Adults
Babies
Kids
Bathroom
Cleaning & Laundry
New Baby
More Affordable

One thing we really like about Honest Company is that they make a variety of baby care products with safer ingredients that are more affordable. Many of their personal care and beauty products have a best-in-class ingredient safety certification. They also have an appropriate focus on trying to reduce environmental impacts from their packaging. We wish they were doing more (or disclosing more) when it comes to protecting our climate and biodiversity. The company’s mission is aligned with more robust action on material sustainability issues - we look forward to seeing their efforts mature.

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.
We regularly try to purchase and use products made by this company or their brands in our homes.
Hilde Ratings
Topic
Rating
Ingredient Safety
Environmental impact
People Benefits
Governance
Hilde Approved Certifications
EWG Verified
Hilde Likes

Avoiding known problem chemicals

Mission alignment with sustainability

Reducing packaging impacts

Verified ingredient safety efforts

Opportunities for Improvement

Launching climate protection efforts

Providing public disclosure and reporting

Providing paid parental leave

Filling gaps on people impacts

Launching efforts to protect biodiversity

Additional Information
Parent Company:
None
Owned Brands:
Honest Beauty
Product Types:
Diapers, wipes, hair care, skincare, cosmetics, makeup, baby clothing, hand sanitizer

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

Avoiding known problem chemicals

This brand appears to take a good first step by restricting the use of toxic chemicals that are common to their product categories.

Verified ingredient safety efforts

This company makes a significant number of products that have at least one Hilde approved ingredient safety certification to help support their claims

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Opportunities for Improvement
None Identified
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

Reducing packaging impacts

This company is taking some good initial steps to reduce the environmental impacts of their packaging like using post-consumer recycled raw materials

Opportunities for Improvement

Launching climate protection efforts

We would like to see this company take credible actions to measure, reduce, and report on their greenhouse gas emissions

Launching efforts to protect biodiversity

We would like to see this company take steps to understand and mitigate the impacts their operations, supply chain, or products have on biodiversity and ecosystems and communicate about them publicly

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

Providing paid parental leave

We would like to see this company adopt a paid family leave policy for their employees that goes beyond regulatory requirements and share it publicly

Filling gaps on people impacts

This company should put credible efforts in place to ensure that their employees are treated fairly, that human rights are protected for people in their supply chain, raw materials are sourced responsibly, and publicly share info about their work

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
None Identified

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