Neal's Yard Remedies

Our “Planet” rating evaluates brands based on the environmental policies in their supply chains, from carbon emissions to wastewater, ingredients' impacts, product circularity, and more. Here we rate Neal's Yard Remedies “Great”. These are a few factors influencing its score:

• It uses some lower-impact ingredients including upcycled and certified organic ingredients.
• To reduce its climate impacts, it uses renewable energy in its supply chain.
• It uses recycled packaging
• It recycles water to reduce water use in its supply chain.
• It could be using palm oil, but it has not disclosed any information regarding responsible sourcing that mitigates environmental impacts.

Workers’ rights are central to our “People” rating, which assesses brands’ policies and practices on everything from child labour to living wages and gender equality. Here we rate Neal's Yard Remedies “It's a Start”. These are a few factors influencing its score:

• Its final production stage happens in the United Kingdom, a medium risk country for labour abuse.
• It partly traces its supply chain including the final and some of the second and first production stages.
• The brand claims to audit some of its supply chain but doesn’t specify what percentage.
• Its Code of Conduct covers some ILO Four Fundamental Freedoms principles.
• There’s no evidence it ensures workers are paid living wages in its supply chain.

Note that the "People" rating in Good On You’s methodology is defined by labour rights and does not consider consumer health.

Brands’ animal welfare policies and, where applicable, how well they trace their animal-derived products, are the focus of our “Animals” rating. Here we rate Neal's Yard Remedies “It's a Start”. These are a few factors influencing its score:

• It uses animal-derived ingredients in its products.
• It appears to use ingredients derived from farmed animals, including lanolin.
• It has not made any public commitments to eliminate animal-derived ingredients.
• It's certified by Cruelty Free International's Leaping Bunny Programme.

Based on all the publicly available information we’ve reviewed, we rate Neal's Yard Remedies “Good” overall.