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Earth Harbor Naturals

Leading carbon neutral and plastic negative skincare products

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Earth Harbor Naturals' Sustainability Rating:

Good

Earth Harbor Naturals has a Good rating because it intentionally minimizes plastic use and environmentally harmful ingredients.

Earth Harbor Naturals has committed to aligning with EU standards and successfully avoids many ingredients that pose a threat to the climate, including parabens, phthalates, PFAS, microplastics, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. This is notable for a small brand, as it's often very difficult for brands to entirely eliminate petrochemical-based ingredients in their products.

Earth Harbor Naturals has a takeback recycling partnership with Pact Collective. It's made efforts to reduce its packaging plastic use and waste by relying on recyclable glass and aluminum, introducing a plastic-free dropper, and being Plastic Neutral through Plastic Credit Exchange. Earth Harbor Naturals is also Carbon Neutral certified and offsets its full value chain emissions. However, its refills are counterintuitive and could be improved to be larger sizes with lighter packaging, to reduce shipping emissions and packaging waste.


  • Ingredients

    Earth Harbor Naturals has made ingredient commitments to lower its environmental impact, including by avoiding parabens, phthalates, PFAS, microplastics, and other petrochemical-based ingredients. It succeeds in these commitments and Commons didn't find evidence of these ingredients or other petrochemical-derived ingredients in its products, which is very difficult for brands to achieve. It appears to still use some palm oil-derived ingredients that pose a significant threat to the climate, but it may have sourced these alternatively. Its products incorporate bio-based, organic, and upcycled ingredients. It carries products that have certifications from Leaping Bunny and PETA Animal Test-free. Earth Harbor Naturals is EU Certified and a member of 1% for the Planet.


  • Containers & Packaging

    Earth Harbor Naturals has made efforts to minimize the footprint of its packaging materials by prioritizing recyclable materials, and being Plastic Negative through Plastic Credit Exchange. It has made efforts to reduce virgin plastic in its product containers by introducing a plastic-free dropper and transitioning its plastic tops to aluminum ones. It uses eco-friendly materials in its shipping materials, including ones that are recyclable or compostable. It uses carbon neutral shipping for many of its orders.


  • Energy & Water Use

    Earth Harbor Naturals shares limited information on its energy strategy. It has started to incorporate renewable energy to power its production sites, but doesn't share targets for expanding its use of renewable energy across these site or its offices. Earth Harbor Naturals doesn't provide information on any water conservation strategies. Earth Harbor Naturals has an unknown total production span but notes that it's working on localizing its sourcing to reduce emissions.


  • Refill & Reuse

    Earth Harbor Naturals offers a takeback partnership to help avert waste. This free takeback partnership with Pact Collective allows customers to send in old containers to be recycled. Earth Harbor Naturals doesn't offer any bulk sizes and its refills appear to be the same size and glass packaging as its regular products.


  • Slow Cleaning

    Earth Harbor Naturals doesn't frequently release seasonal or new products, which helps prevent production of excess inventory.


  • Marketing

    Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.


  • Transparency & Reporting

    Earth Harbor Naturals has a prominent sustainability page with comprehensive details on its climate strategy. Earth Harbor Naturals shares a complete list of ingredients used in its products, on a per product basis.


  • Emissions Tracking

    Earth Harbor Naturals 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, though there are some discrepancies between its scope-by-scope totals and its overall total. The last reporting period was 2024. In this most recent update, its estimated total emissions footprint was 167 tons CO2e.


  • Targets & Offsets

    Commons couldn't find emissions reduction targets for this brand, but it shares interim reduction plans. Earth Harbor Naturals is certified climate neutral by Change Climate Project and offsets emissions from its full value chain.


  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Earth Harbor Naturals publishes limited information about its Tier 1 supply chain facilities, disclosing their geographic locations. It doesn't publicly share a supplier code of conduct. Earth Harbor Naturals doesn't have a stated policy of regularly auditing its supply chain partners. This may increase human and environmental risks.


  • Advocacy

    Commons wasn't able to find evidence of any trade association memberships or any relevant policy for this brand. Earth Harbor Naturals isn't a member of any key advocacy organizations that are blocking climate policy, but it also isn't a member of advocacy organizations advancing climate policy. It doesn't employ any state lobbyists and 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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https://earthharbor.com/pages/about-us

https://echa.europa.eu/cosmetics-prohibited-substances?p_p_id=eucleflegislationlist_WAR_euclefportlet&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_eucleflegislationlist_WAR_euclefportlet_javax.portlet.action=searchLegislationLists

https://earthharbor.com/tools/FAQ#hc-are-your-ocean-derived-ingredients-safe-from-harmful-pollutants-and-microplastics

https://earthharbor.com/blogs/news/earth-harbors-sustainability-transparency-program

https://earthharbor.com/tools/FAQ#hc-are-your-products-100-vegan-cruelty-free

https://earthharbor.com/pages/earth-harbor-gives

https://www.plasticcreditexchange.com/

https://earthharbor.com/collections/refills-plastic-free/products/glass-applicator

https://earthharbor.com/blogs/news/refills-and-be-plastic-free-dispenser-are-here-beta-launch-say-bye-to-waste

https://explore.changeclimate.org/brand/earth-harbor-naturals

https://earthharbor.com/collections/refills-plastic-free

https://pact-collective.myshopify.com/products/mailback-earthharbor

https://earthharbor.com/tools/FAQ

https://fminus.org/lobbyists/

https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/

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