Mustela
Evaluation Completed:
July 18, 2025
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Evaluation Summary
Company Insights
Mustela is owned by the company Expanscience Laboratories. 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.
Expanscience Laboratories is an interesting company. In addition to owning a couple of consumer-facing brands they also operate as an ingredient supplier for cosmetics companies. They have unique, yet credible goals, policies, and practices when it comes to ingredient safety and sustainability. For example, they have a goal of becoming a “regenerative” company by 2040, a goal that could align them well with a context-based approach to sustainability. Overall we like what we see and think there is a genuine effort to create positive impacts. We can see that this company likely would have scored even higher if they provided more comprehensive information related to their ingredient safety and benefits for people policies and practices.
Ingredient Safety
Foundational Gaps
Solid Baseline
Strong Performance
Hilde Likes
Best-in-class ingredient safety certifications
This company makes a significant number of products that have a best-in-class ingredient safety certification
Opportunities for Improvement
Benchmarking ingredient safety practices
We would like to see this company participate in the Chemical Footprint Project or similar initiative to help benchmark their policies and practices against other companies publicly share their results
Improving ingredient safety substantiation
We’d like to have more information on their approach to ingredient safety to support a deeper assessment of their efforts
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
Emphasis on regenerative agriculture
We like this company's efforts to support regenerative approaches to agricultural production which can have multiple environmental and social benefits compared to industrial methods
Nature & biodiversity protection
This company appears to have a holistic approach to identifying and attempting to manage impacts to ecosystems that provide important raw materials for their products
Taking climate action seriously
This company has a great foundation in place when it comes to climate including measuring all greenhouse gas emissions, setting some near-term targets, and reducing their emissions over time
Opportunities for Improvement
Better claims substantiation on environmental impacts
More transparency by the company is needed related to their claims for environmental impact topics because we were unable to find sufficient publicly available substantiation for some criteria
Verification of environmental impact reduction efforts
This company should start using or expand their use of high-quality certifications related to strengthen their claims related to environmental impact reduction
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
More supply chain transparency
This company provides some useful information about where they source raw materials and where their products are manufactured
Opportunities for Improvement
Better claims substantiation for people benefits
More transparency by the company is needed related to their claims for people benefits topics because we were unable to find sufficient publicly available substantiation for some criteria
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
Commitment to ethical business practices
We value that this company is a certified B-Corp because it demonstrates a credible commitment to pursuing ethical business practices
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.