Thayers Natural Remedies

Thayers Natural Remedies has committed to avoid certain ingredients to lower its environmental impact, including parabens, phthalates and other petrochemical-based ingredients. While it has these ingredient commitments, it still use a few ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, including microplastic and other petrochemical-based ingredients. Its products incorporate bio-based and/or biodegradable ingredients. Thayers Natural Remedies doesn't report having any product or company-level certifications.

Thayers Natural Remedies appears to use both100% recycled plastic and unidentified plastic. It has made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in some of its product containers, including by specific efforts to avoid excessive materials. Its parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, has some initiatives to reduce shipping emissions and packaging volumes, but it's unclear what applies to this brand.

Thayers Natural Remedies' parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, shares information on its overall energy strategy. It uses a majority of renewable energy to power its production sites and corporate offices, and has targets for expanding its use of renewable energy in stores. L'Oreal Groupe implements energy efficiency measures in its production sites and corporate offices. It implements water conservation measures, including working to increase its water recycling and wastewater quality. Thayers Natural Remedies has a global production span, which is standard for the industry.

Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offers any alternative models to lower its waste footprint, such as refills or takeback programs. It offers bulk sizes for some products, which may help reduce packaging waste. It doesn't provide any guidance to help customers properly recycle or dispose of its products.

It's unclear if this brand releases new items seasonally or otherwise frequently, which can create excess waste.

Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.

Thayers Natural Remedies has a prominent sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy. Its parent company publishes a detailed annual report with a clear, impact-driven strategy and progress reporting. Its last annual report was published in 2024. Thayers Natural Remedies shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products on a per product basis.

Thayers Natural Remedies' parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, internally measures and publicly reports its company-level emissions in partnership with, or with auditing from, a third party. It includes a breakdown by scope and shares select product-level LCAs. The last reporting period was 2024. In its most recent update, its estimated emissions footprint was 8,173,101 tons CO2e.

Thayers Natural Remedies' parent company has SBTi-approved emissions reduction targets for the medium-term (5-10 years), long-term (10+ years). It has reported on its progress within the past year, and is on track for some of its targets but is very off track for its scope 3 target. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.

Thayers Natural Remedies' parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, publishes limited information about its supply chain partners and is working on tracing some of its supply chain. L'Oreal Groupe publicly shares a supplier code of conduct, which prohibits forced labor, prohibits child labor, establishes grievance mechanisms, and disallows unauthorized subcontracting. Its code of conduct doesn't ensure the right to collective bargaining where not allowed by law, ensure a living wage, or include environmental clauses. It has a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners, which can mitigate human and environmental risks.

Thayers Natural Remedies' parent company, L'Oreal Groupe, doesn't openly disclose its climate-obstructive trade association memberships. L'Oreal Groupe is member of 1 large climate-obstructive trade association: Personal Care Products Council, and belongs to some pro-climate advocacy orgs, including: Ceres. It employs state lobbyists with few fossil fuel aligned clients. It didn't donate more than $100k to climate-obstructive candidates or PACs from 2018-2024.