Top 5 ethical companies by sector

Fashion

THTC

Ethical product rating: 89/100

Why buy from THTC:

Independent THTC (The Hemp Trading Company) is one of the few clothing companies that does not stock or resell through Amazon. It makes clothes from hemp and organic cotton, and describes itself anti-capitalist and places "the environment and people at their core". Founded in 1999. It got extra points in the Israel-Palestine rating for teaming up with Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) to create The Usual Suspects: a t-shirt design with 50% of profits going directly to PSC. 

Health and Beauty

Odylique

Ethical product rating: 97/100 (lipstick)

Why buy Odylique:

Odylique are a vegetarian friendly cosmetics company based in the UK. They sit top of our make up rankings table scoring with some of the highest possible ethical standards. For example their lipstick is both organic and fairtrade certified.

The company also has a positive animal testing policy. They never use ingredients tested on animals and have a fixed cut off date for ingredients that may have been tested on animals in the past. The brand is owned by Essential Care Organics.

Food and Drink

Plamil

Ethical Product rating: 90/100 (vegan chocolate)

Why buy from Plamil?

Plamil is a vegan company with a long history of producing sustainable foods.

For example its palm oil is sourced from organic sources, the company only uses renewable energy and much of its chocolate is both Fairtrade and organic as well as suitable for vegans.

Money

Triodos

Ethical rating: 87/100 

Why buy from Triodos?

Triodos sits at the top or near the top of a number of our product guide tables, including current accounts, saving accounts and cash ISAs. Triodos Bank only lends to organisations which create real social, environmental and cultural value such charities, social businesses, community projects and environmental initiatives.

The bank is also fully transparent about who it lends to, this is very rare in a sector where ethical standards tend to be very low.

Technology

Fairphone

Ethical rating: 83/100 (smart phones)

Why buy a Fairphone?

Fairphone was started as a campaigning organisation working to stop abuses in the conflict mineral supply chain. It later became a company and started to sell mobile phones that are made to much higher ethical standards than those sold by mainstream brands. For example their phones use conflict free components and some fairtrade gold.

They also use manufacturing facilities in China where working conditions are much higher.