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Blue Lizard

Mineral-based sunscreens for sensitive skin

Blue Lizard
Blue Lizard's Sustainability Rating

Harmful


  • Ingredients

    Blue Lizard has committed to avoid certain ingredients to lower its environmental impact, including parabens, phthalates, other petrochemical-based ingredients, and harmful suncare ingredients. While it has these ingredient commitments, it still uses a few petrochemical-based ingredients that are hard to eliminate. Blue Lizard doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications.


  • Containers & Packaging

    Blue Lizard has made some efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers. It uses some environmentally-mindful materials like aluminum in its product containers. It has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in some of its product containers by phasing out the smallest sizes.


  • Energy & Water Use

    Blue Lizard doesn't share information on its energy strategy. Blue Lizard doesn't provide information on any water conservation strategies. Blue Lizard has an unknown production span.


  • Refill & Reuse

    Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offers any alternative models to lower its waste footprint, such as refills or takeback programs. It provides general recycling and/or disposal guidance for some of its products.


  • Slow Consumption

    Blue Lizard doesn't frequently release seasonal or limited edition products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory.


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Blue Lizard has a sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy, but this page is hard to find on its website. Despite being a larger company with increased influence, Blue Lizard and its parent company don't publish an annual sustainability report, which signals a lack of transparency and accountability. Blue Lizard shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products on a per product basis.


  • Emissions Tracking

    Commons couldn't find information on this brand's emissions tracking. We expect large brands with the largest emissions footprint to track and report their data publicly.


  • Targets & Offsets

    Commons couldn't find emissions reduction targets for this brand. Larger brands have an outsized impact and responsibility to reduce their emissions. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Blue Lizard doesn't publish information about its supply chain partners. It doesn't publicly share a supplier code of conduct. We expect larger brands to have a public code of conduct. Blue Lizard 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 from its parent company either.


  • Advocacy

    Commons wasn't able to find evidence of any trade association memberships or any relevant policy for this brand or its parent company. It isn't a member of any key advocacy organizations that are blocking climate policy, nor of any advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It doesn't employ any state lobbyists. It didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.

We avoid Blue Lizard because its sustainability reporting is incomplete or nonexistent. We expect more transparency and accountability from large brands.

Blue Lizard has committed to avoid certain ingredients to lower its environmental impact, including parabens, phthalates, and harmful suncare ingredients, though it still uses a few petrochemical-based ingredients that are hard to eliminate. It doesn't utilize any alternative models or packaging minimization strategies to reduce its waste and emissions footprint.

Blue Lizard's parent company is lacking reporting on its energy strategy, water efficiency measures, emissions measurement, emissions data, emissions reduction targets, offsets, supply chain details, and labor practices.

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 October 2025.

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