Fashion and beauty brands sustainability ratings platform Good on You has released a beauty brand sustainability report, rating 239 beauty brands to reveal what actions the industry is taking to address its impacts on the environment, workers, and animals throughout the value chain.

Key stats from the Beauty Sustainability Scorecard:

• Poor ingredient transparency: 90% of beauty brands use fragrance ingredients, but 72% do not disclose the exact ingredients they use.
• Living wage negligence: 84% of brands are taking no publicly disclosed action to ensure payment of living wages throughout their supply chains.
• Animal testing concerns: 78% of brands have no certification to show they’re not testing on animals.
• Insufficient climate reporting: 80% of large beauty brands do not disclose their progress in meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets.
• Refillable packaging shortfall: while 15% of brands offer refillable products for more than a third of their range, only 2% track and report on repeat purchases.

10 best rated small brands:

• Disruptor London
• Odylique
• Upcircle Beauty
• Tropic
• Pai Skincare
• BYBI
• Unbottled
• Tata Harper
• Neal’s Yard Remedies
• The Perfect Anchor

10 best-rated large brands:

• Youth To The People
• Garnier
• Lush
• Carol’s Daughter
• Dr Bronner
• The Body Shop
• Aveda
• Urban Decay
• Aesop
• DECIEM

For the full report, visit goodonyou.eco.