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Kate McLeod

Lotion bars and solid moisturizers

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Kate McLeod's Sustainability Rating:

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Kate McLeod is a sustainability leader in its industry. It intentionally minimizes resource use and environmentally harmful ingredients while crafting refillable waterless lotion bars in 100% plastic free packaging.

Kate McLeod aligns with stringent Made Safe standards for its ingredients. Commons didn't find evidence of environmentally-harmful ingredients in its products, including parabens, phthalates, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. The brand utilizes packaging minimization strategies and alternative models for all products to reduce its waste and emissions footprint, such as offering reusable containers and exclusively waterless formats, and utilizing ephemeral packaging. Kate McLeod has 100% plastic-free packaging for its product containers which are compostable, recyclable, reusable, and use FSC-certified materials.

Kate McLeod is certified climate neutral and publicly shares its emissions measurements via Change Climate. It has shared reduction goals focused on packaging and upstream and downstream shipping.


  • Ingredients

    Kate McLeod has made ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact by excluding harmful ingredients through stringent Made Safe certification. Commons didn't find evidence of environmentally-harmful ingredients such as parabens, phthalates, other petrochemical-based ingredients, uncertified palm oil or palm oil-derived ingredients, PFAS, microplastics, or harmful suncare ingredients in this brand's products. Its products incorporate bio-based and biodegradable, organic ingredients. All of Kate McLeod's products are certified by Made Safe and Leaping Bunny. Kate McLeod participates in 1% for the Planet.


  • Containers & Packaging

    Kate McLeod has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in all of its product containers, including by offering concentrated formats for liquids, offering solid formats, and making specific efforts to avoid excessive materials. It has made significant efforts to minimize the volume of material used in its secondary or tertiary shipping packaging. Kate McLeod body stone shipments include biodegradable and dissolvable insulated foam liners made of US-grown, non-GMO corn, and sweat-resistant ice packs. Due to the melting hazard of the product, Kate McLeod uses expedited shipping which can be a higher carbon footprint, but limits shipping to Monday through Wednesday to avoid the product melting in warehouses or trucks. It uses 100% plastic-free packaging and containers. It uses eco-friendly materials in its product containers, including ones that are compostable, recyclable, reusable, FSC-certified.


  • Energy & Water Use

    Kate McLeod doesn't share information on its energy strategy. Kate McLeod doesn't provide information on any water conservation strategies but does produce exclusivley waterless forumlas that save on water in production and carbon emissions in transportation. Kate McLeod has a mostly local (USA) production span, producing in one facility and sourcing most of their packaging from US suppliers, which helps reduce transit emissions in its supply chain.


  • Refill & Reuse

    Kate McLeod utilizes alternative models for all products to avert waste, including promoting reuse and offering refills and reusable containers, and producing consolidated waterless products with ephemeral packaging.


  • Slow Cleaning

    Kate McLeod doesn't frequently release seasonal or limited edition products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory. It takes measures to avoid overproduction or overconsumption, including by curating a minimal routine and minimizing wasted product.


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Kate McLeod has a prominent sustainability page with brief details on its climate strategy. Like many small brands with limited resources, it doesn't publish an annual sustainability report. Kate McLeod shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products on a per product basis.


  • Emissions Tracking

    Kate McLeod internally measures and publicly reports its company-level emissions via Change Climate as a Climate Neutral Certified brand. It includes a breakdown by scope and the last reporting period was 2024. In its most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 566 tons CO2e.


  • Targets & Offsets

    Kate McLeod has emissions reduction targets for the short-term (1-5 years) as found on its Change Climate page. The brand has been reporting its progress within the past year, but is not on track for any of its targets aside from newly set ones for 2026. Kate McLeod is certified climate neutral by Change Climate Project.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Kate McLeod publishes that its products are handmade by local employees in its workshop in Hudson Valley, NY. It doesn't provide clear information on its sourcing. It doesn't publicly share a supplier code of conduct. Kate McLeod doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks. Commons couldn't find further information about this brand's supply chain and labor practices.


  • Advocacy

    Commons wasn't able to find evidence of any trade association memberships or any relevant policy for this brand. Kate McLeod isn't a member of any key advocacy organizations that are blocking climate policy. It isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It doesn't employ any state lobbyists. Kate McLeod didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.

Our ratings are based on a scale from 1 (harmful) to 5 (best). How we rate →

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Sustainability information was last updated in June 2025.

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