babyganics

Babyganics has made ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact, including by avoiding parabens, phthalates, harmful suncare ingredients, and select other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its parent company, SC Johnson, has additional commitments concerning microplastics and palm oil-derived ingredients. While it has commitments, Babyganics still uses a few ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including microplastics and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its products incorporate bio-based and organic ingredients, and it claims to be cruelty free. Babyganics doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications.

Babyganics hasn't made any efforts to concentrate its products or minimize its containers, with the exception of its laundry detergent. This increases shipping emissions and packaging volumes. Babyganics doesn't publicly share information on its shipping materials and product containers. Packaging is a large portion of the industry's emissions and waste footprint, and Babyganics appears to use primarily plastic of a virgin or undisclosed source, which greatly increases its emissions, though its parent company has some overarching virgin plastic reduction initiatives.

Babyganics' parent company, SC Johnson, shares information on its overall energy strategy. It uses some renewable energy to power some production sites and its corporate offices. It has vague targets for expanding its use of renewable energy from 45% to 48% by 2025. SC Johnson doesn't provide information on any water conservation strategies specific to Babyganics. Babyganics has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Babyganics offers refills for a few products to help avert waste. It doesn't offer any take back programs for its product containers. It offers bulk sizes for most products, which may help reduce packaging waste.

It's unclear if this brand releases new items seasonally or otherwise frequently, which can create excess waste. It's also unclear if this brand's cleaning products are designed to work in cold water, which reduces emissions per use.

Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.

Babyganics has a prominent sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy. Its parent company, SC Johnson, publishes annual reports, with limited, high-level information on initiatives and impact. Its last annual report was published in 2024. Babyganics shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis.

Babyganics' parent company, SC Johnson, measures its emissions on an organization-wide level but doesn't transparently report its data to the public. Its annual reports leave out scope 3, and Commons could only find scope 1 and 2 represented proportionally in charts, without quantifiable CO2e values to analyze.

SC Johnson, Babyganics' parent company, has an emissions reduction target for 2025 with 2000 as its baseline year. However, its targets do not address scope 3, which is the largest portion of its emissions footprint. It recently reported that it had achieved its target, but its calculations and progress reporting are hard to track. It doesn't share any future goals for further scope 1 and 2 reductions, or goals to address its scope 3 emissions. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.

SC Johnson, Babyganics' parent company, publishes some information about its supply chain partners, but doesn't provide details on geography or traceability. It publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor and prohibits child labor. Its code of conduct doesn't disallow unauthorized subcontracting, ensure the right to collective bargaining where not allowed by law, ensure a living wage, establish grievance mechanisms, include concrete environmental clauses. SC Johnson doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks.

Babyganics' parent company, SC Johnson, doesn't openly disclose its climate-obstructive trade association memberships. It's a member of 1 large climate-obstructive trade associations: Personal Care Products Council. It isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It donated to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024. Commons is working on better defining the amount donated.