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.
Verified plastic-free Recommended alternativeA 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, based in Auckland, that makes solid, plastic-free haircare and bodycare. It is a certified B Corp and carbon positive, and it skips sulfates, parabens, and silicones across its range. It sources raw materials from verified suppliers, including women's cooperatives in Samoa, Ghana, and Rwanda, and says it has kept more than 33 million plastic bottles from being made.
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