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Naked Sprout customer, welcome to Ethical Consumer

Thanks for visiting us. We have all the information and inspiration you need to revolutionise the way you shop, save, and live.

Learn how to use your spending power to help change the world for the better.

Join thousands of others and become an ethical consumer today.

About us

We're an independent, not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative with open membership, and have been at the heart of the ethical consumer movement since 1989.

We provide all the tools and resources you need to make choices at the checkout simple, informed, and effective.

Our site contains over 100 shopping guides alongside news features and content on ethical markets, products, and brands.

A special subscription offer

Subscribe to Ethical Consumer with a special discount for Naked Sprout customers!

We would like to help you on your ethical consumption journey.

Subscribe to us with the code SPROUT14 to get 14 months for 12. This will give you a free extra magazine! 

To take advantage of this special offer, put "SPROUT14" in the notes fields on the order review page on the subscription pages.

Full online access to our unique shopping guides, ethical rankings and company profiles. The essential ethical print magazine.

What do you get as a subscriber to Ethical Consumer?

A year's subscription to Ethical Consumer gives you:

  • 6 issues of Ethical Consumer Magazine in print and/or digital format
  • 12 months full access to all Shopping Guides and Company Profiles
  • Special discount offers from selected Best Buy companies
  • Digital versions of our entire catalogue of back issues
     

The brand scores and rankings in shopping guides are usually for subscribers only. By subscribing you get to see the full results and which brands are top (and bottom!) of the table. 

Some popular content we think Naked Sprout customers will find useful and inspiring

From bread to banks, the Ethical Consumer site contains over 100 ethical shopping guides on a range of products and services.

This includes many guides that promote an environmentally friendly lifestyle and products such as our guides to toilet paper, or our guide to outdoor clothing.

Below are some links to guides that we think, as a Naked Sprout customer, you might find interesting and useful.

Washing-up liquid guide

Find eco and ethical washing-up liquid.

We rate and rank 24 brands of washing-up liquid, and look at palm oil use, animal testing, toxic chemicals and packaging.

Shopping guide to washing-up liquid

Bookshops - finding alternatives to Amazon

Our guide reviews 34 brands of bookshop chains including online retailers. We look at how to buy secondhand books, ebooks and audio books, and how to shop without using Amazon.

This guide is fully 'open' so everyone can see the brand scores.

Shopping guide to bookshops

Ethical clothing brands

We rate 29 ethical clothing brands and look at sustainable fabrics, fair wages and working conditions, animal rights, and supply chain transparency. 

We also cover vintage and secondhand clothing companies and consider how to avoid buying into 'fast fashion'.

Shopping guide to ethical clothing brands

Chocolate

Nearly everyone loves chocolate! But there are lots of ethical issues such as child labour, palm oil, cocoa certification and deforestation to consider. We look at all these and more including vegan, organic and fair trade options. 

Our guide reviews 84 brands of chocolate to help you find one that is ethical and suits your budget.

Shopping guide to chocolate

How ethical is your bank account?

Some of the big banks are notorious for the support of fossil fuels and the arms trade. 

We highlight the best and the worst in our guide rating 31 current account brands including app-based banks.

Shopping guide to current accounts

Subscribe to Ethical Consumer and get 14 months for the price of 12!

Ethical Consumer Subscription

We'd like to offer customers of Naked Sprout a special offer to Ethical Consumer. 

Subscribe using the special discount code and you'll get 14 months subscription for the price of 12. This means 7 magazines, for the price of 6! 

As well as the magazine, subscribers have access to detailed ethical ratings of 1000s of brands to help you make the right choices every time you shop.

To take advantage of the special offer, write 'SPROUT14' in the notes fields on the order review page on the subscription pages.