Ethique Shampoo bar
Ethique
Shampoo bar
Plastic-free and home-compostable, fully disclosed, with no chemicals of concern. About as clean as personal care gets.
A concentrated, plastic-free shampoo bar in home-compostable paperboard. No bottle and no added water, so one bar replaces several liquid bottles.
How this score breaks down
Strengths
- Plastic-free and home-compostable packaging
- Certified B Corp with strong labor and giving commitments
- Vegan
- Concentrated format cuts shipping weight
Trade-offs
- Bars take a short adjustment period if you are used to liquid
- Carbon-neutral is stated by the brand but was not on the certification page we checked, so we list it as a claim rather than a confirmed certification
Scored on our consumables method (consumables-v1). How we rank →
What's inside
A concentrated solid shampoo bar with no added water, so it ships without a plastic bottle. The bar is the entire product; there is no liquid base and none of the synthetic-polymer thickeners common in bottled shampoo.
| Part | Material |
|---|---|
| Format | Solid shampoo bar, water-free |
| Outer wrap | Home-compostable molded paperboard |
Free of Plastic bottle, added water, microbeads
- Packaging
- Home-compostable paperboard, plastic-free
- Microplastics
- None
Attributes
What this product is, at a glance.
Certifications
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About Ethique
Ethique is a New Zealand company founded in 2012 by scientist Brianne West, who started making solid beauty bars in her kitchen to get single-use plastic bottles out of bathrooms. It makes plastic-free shampoo, conditioner, cleanser, and deodorant bars, and says it has kept tens of millions of plastic bottles from being made.
It is a certified B Corp, confirmed in B Lab's registry, and states it runs carbon-neutral production, gives 2% of sales to charity, and is vegan and cruelty-free with home-compostable packaging. The products are genuinely plastic-free rather than low-plastic, and they sit at a mid to premium price.
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