Our Best Buy Label is the last word on ethical labelling making it even easier to find the products and services that reflect your principles.
Consumer product labels now appear on an increasing number of ethical products and services. The Ethical Consumer Best Buy Label helps shoppers choose genuinely ethical products and services.
It's a unique label that looks in detail at the ethical record of the company behind the product and the environmental and ethical record of the product itself.
We believe that this approach helps shoppers avoid falling for ethical and environmental claims that turn out to be little more than greenwash.
For example, a jar of coffee could be labelled as being organic, Fairtrade or both but be made by a controversial multi-national corporation and would never receive our Best Buy Label.
Our site contains detailed ethical guides to over 35,000 products and companies.
Using the Ethical Consumer's extensive database, our researchers rate both the product and the company behind the product against more than 20 animal welfare, environmental and human rights criteria.
Based on these findings we then identify and recommend a number of environmental and ethical Best Buy products.
Find out more about our ratings system.
The following companies have been awarded the Best Buy Label for supplying genuinely ethical products:
The following companies have been awarded the Best Buy Label for supplying genuinely ethical products:
Online retailer selling ethical and sustainable menswear
Shopping guides: Ethical Clothing Brands
Online retailer for organic and ethically produced clothing.
Shopping guides: Ethical Clothing Brands, Ethical T-shirts
Cruelty-free footware and clothing mail order company.
Shopping guides: Shoes
The Hemp Trading Company is an award winning, ethically driven clothing label, specialising in eco-friendly, politically-conscious street-wear.
Shopping guides: Ethical Clothing Brands, Ethical T-shirts
Launched in 1995, Ecotricity has built the most renewable capacity of any renewable energy company, mostly in wind.
Shopping guides: Gas & Electricity
Advocating green energy by enabling homes and businesses to be part of a sustainable solution to climate change.
Shopping guides: Gas Suppliers, Gas & Electricity
Scoring well across all Ethical Consumer's ratings including carbon management and reporting, Kensa also made the first ground source heat pump small and quiet enough to be installed in flats.
Shopping guides: Heat Pumps
A small independent business providing audio books without subscription, xigxag take on the global domination of Amazon from their Cornwall base.
Shopping guides: Bookshops
New Internationalist's shopping site which helps charities and campaign groups raise money by selling ethical gifts and household goods.
Shopping guides: Ethical Online Retailers
One of the UK's first suppliers of recycled paper and green office supplies. Also sells some refreshments like tea, coffee, sugar (some fair trade and organic), and cruelty-free cleaning supplies.
Shopping guides: Ethical Online Retailers
A marketplace for consumers who care about the origins of the products they purchase, and a home for unique independent brands who create high-quality sustainable products.
Shopping guides: Ethical Online Retailers
Features: Q&A: Veo World
Wiltshire-based Christine's Sustainable Supermarket sells a wide range of ethical, Fairtrade and organic produce. It scores Ethical Consumer's best rating for environmental reporting and supply chain management.
Shopping guides: Supermarkets
Fairtrade and organic coffee whose production benefits birds and other wildlife.
Shopping guides: Coffee
Organic, single origin, traceable Raisetrade chocolate, grown in Madagascar which ensures that much greater share of the value & profit is created in the country of origin.
Shopping guides: Chocolate
http://www.chocolatmadagascar.com
Organic and Fairtrade wholesaler who distribute sustainable, ecological and cruelty free products.
Shopping guides: Cooking Oil, Toilet Paper, Rice, Baked Beans
Fair Trade rice produced by the Kaporo Smallholder Farmer Association in Malawi.
Shopping guides: Rice
Supplier of ethically-sourced organic and Fairtrade coconut oil.
Shopping guides: Coconut Oil,
Made using organic ingredients, Pacari chocolates are also vegan and fair trade. Plus they're made in Ecuador meaning that unlike most other chocolates, more of the profit stays in the country.
Shopping guides: Chocolate
UK's largest workers' cooperative and wholesalers of Organic, Vegan, Vegetarian and specialist foods.
Shopping guides: Beer, Ground Coffee, Dog Food, Fruit Juice, Household Cleaners, Laundry Detergent, Washing Powder, Rice, Shampoo, Spreads, Soap, Toilet Cleaner, Toilet Paper, Cooking Oil\
Every bag of Source Climate Change organic coffee has a unique tracking number allowing shoppers to find out how communities and forests benefit from every purchase.
Shopping guides: Coffee
By promoting their fair trade and organically produced food, Zaytoun supports farming communities in Palestine.
Shopping guides: Olive Oil
A skincare range which makes natural and organic skincare.
Shopping guides: Skincare, Shower Gel, Soap, Shampoo
Family run business producing organic and vegan perfumes.
Shopping guides: Health & Beauty
Handmade soap that's vegan and animal-friendly and because it doesn't use any palm oil it's also good news for orangutans.
Shopping guides: Soap Bars
Produces natural toothpaste which contains no artificial sweetners, flavourings, colourings or preservatives.
Shopping guides: Toothpaste
www.kingfishertoothpaste.co.uk
One of the most ethical companies that Ethical Consumer rates, all Lucy Bee's coconut oil is organic and Fairtrade. All their health and beauty products are organic, vegan, cruelty free and fair trade.
Shopping guides: Deodorant, Skincare, Soap
One of the first cosmetic companies not to use palm oil in any of its products, Queenie Organics is also 100% organic and vegan.
Shopping guides: Skincare
Bio-D produces eco-friendly household cleaning products. All products are from sustainable, naturally-derived raw materials and are free from synthetic chemicals, preservatives, enzymes and synthetic perfumes.
Shopping guides: Household Cleaners, Dishwasher Detergent, Washing-up Liquid, Laundry Detergent, Toilet Cleaner
Features: Company Q&A
The Friendly Chemical Co. reduces waste by using refillable bottles and also scores best Ethical Consumer rating for carbon and environmental management and palm oil sourcing. The Miniml brand is in our shopping guides.
Shopping guides: Dishwasher Detergent, Laundry Detergent, Shower Gel, Toilet Cleaners, Washing-up Liquid
www.thefriendlychemicalco.com/
Organic and vegan household cleaning products.
Shopping guides: Household Cleaners, Laundry Detergent, Washing Powder, Toilet Cleaner
SESI makes sustainable cleaning products that helps shoppers ditch single-use plastic bottles in favour of refills. The company scores Ethical Consumer's best rating for animal testing and carbon management.
Shopping guides: Dishwasher Detergents, Household Cleaners, Laundry Detergents, Shower Gel, Skin Care, Toilet Cleaners, Washing-up Liquid
Co-founded by The Big Issue, The Big Exchange is one of the UK's leading ethical investment companies and provides a genuinely ethical Stocks & Shares ISA.
Shopping guides: Stocks & Shares ISA
Building a greener society through sustainable mortgages, ethical savings, affordable housing and mutuals.
Shopping guides: Ethical Mortgages, Savings Accounts, Cash ISAs
Triodos Bank is one of the world's leading sustainable banks and one of the most ethical companies that Ethical Consumer ranks and rates in its product guides. Its mission is “to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.”
Shopping guides: Carbon Divestment, Ethical Investment Funds, Current Accounts, Current Accounts for Small Businesses and Charities, Cash ISAs, Savings Accounts, Innovative Finance ISAs
Ethical investment fund focused on the opportunities created by the transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy.
Shopping guides: Ethical Investment Funds
Ecotalk is a Best Buy for mobile phone networks because it’s owned by renewable electricity company Ecotricity, another one of our Best Buy companies. Ecotalk also gets our best rating for tax avoidance, a practice widespread in this industry.
Shopping guides: Email Providers, Broadband, Mobile Networks
Made from Fairtrade and recycled materials, Fairphone 4 allows you to upgrade parts yourself so you can keep it for longer making it the most ethical mobile phone you can buy.
Fairphone is our only best buy in the mobile phones guide.
Shopping guides: Mobile phones
The Fairphone and contracts are available in the UK from YourCoop.
Not-for-profit Internet Services Provider (IPS) with sustainability at the heart of their business model.
Shopping guides: Broadband
An ethical Internet Service Provider that has been in business since 1986.
Shopping guides: Email Providers, Broadband, Mobile Networks
With a strong commitment to privacy, Runbox is a Norwegian-based e-mail provider which runs on 100 per cent renewable energy.
Shopping guides: Email Providers
One of the largest network of hostels and bunkhouses in England, Scotland and Wales, Independent Hostels UK scored our best rating for carbon management and work with their accommodation providers to cut their emissions too.
Shopping guides: Travel booking companies
With over 25 years experience of offering flexible and creative solutions to businesses and NGO's, our research team can help your organisation to manage risk, get ahead of the curve on sustainability issues, and work with consumers to have real impact.
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