The Face Shop

The Face Shop is owned by LG Household & Health Care.

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 The Face Shop “Not Good Enough”. These are a few factors influencing its score:

• There’s no evidence it uses any lower-impact ingredients.
• There's no evidence it has initiatives to address overproduction.
• There's no evidence that it's a microplastic-free brand.
• It minimises its product packaging and publicly discloses results.
• It states that it doesn't use plastic microbeads and uses clearly defined alternatives for all of its exfoliating products.
• A medium proportion of its palm oil is certified by RSPO.

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 The Face Shop “It's a Start”. These are a few factors influencing its score:

• Its final production stage happens in medium-risk countries for labour abuse.
• Its Code of Conduct covers ILO Four Fundamental Freedoms principles.
• It provides a confidential complaints mechanism for workers in its supply chain to report suspected modern slavery.
• It incentivises its suppliers to improve labour conditions in its supply chain.
• 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 The Face Shop “Not Good Enough”. These are a few factors influencing its score:

• It uses animal-derived ingredients in its products.
• It has a non-animal testing policy that applies to ingredients and finished products, but it does not exclude animal testing in all circumstances.
• It has made a public commitment to eliminate some animal-derived ingredients from its products.

Based on all the publicly available information we’ve reviewed, we rate The Face Shop “Not Good Enough” overall.