Family-owned (5 generations); Regenerative Organic Certified; Fair Trade; USDA organic; historically B Corp (highest-scoring, but announced it will not renew B Corp); sources fair-trade incl. Canaan Fair Trade in Palestine.
| Ingredient transparency | Not readable automatically (script-loaded or published as an image) |
| Ownership | Privately owned by the Bronner family; founded 1948 by Emanuel Bronner. David Bronner is CEO (titled 'Cosmic Engagement Officer') and his brother Michael Bronner has served as President since 2015 (confirmed via Wikipedia). Trudy Bronner as CFO per current data was not stated in the loaded source. No sale or change of ownership structure found. (Family-owned) |
| Where made | Vista, California, USA (per current data; Wikipedia does not specify the manufacturing site). |
| Price | Affordable |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Partial |
| Organic | Yes |
| Certifications | B Corp: DROPPED / not renewed as of February 2025, CONFIRMED. Wikipedia quotes the company that the integrity of B Corp Certification 'has become compromised' by sharing the same logo and messaging 'with large multinational CPG companies with a history of serious ecological and labor issues, and no comprehensive or credible eco-social certification of supply chains.' Matches current data. |
| Sold in mainland China | No, not sold in mainland China or any country requiring animal testing (per current data; consistent, not contradicted). |
| Palm oil | Uses fair-trade, organic palm oil as part of its own fair-trade/organic production systems (Ghana is among its sourcing countries) (Wikipedia). |
| Packaging | 100% PCR bottles, recyclable |
| Good On You | Rated Good overall, scoring Planet 4/5, People 3/5 and Animals 5/5. |
| EWG | No EWG VERIFIED status found; individual products are rated in EWG Skin Deep. |
| External ratings | Regenerative Organic Certified; Fair Trade |
| Controversies | 2024 wrongful-death lawsuit over an employee's death allegedly involving an unlicensed ketamine massage (the company offers ketamine-assisted-therapy benefits); the case settled in March 2025 (Wikipedia). |
| Caveat | Still trading and family owned, but the B Corp certification was deliberately allowed to lapse from September 2025, so Dr. Bronner's must no longer be credited as a B Corp; Regenerative Organic Certified, Fair for Life and USDA Organic remain held. |
Claims made for this brand that could not be confirmed in a certifier's own register. A brand website is a claim, not a source.
Any current claim to hold B Corp certification should be removed and replaced with a note that Dr. Bronner's voluntarily dropped it, announced February 2025, lapsed September 2025, over concerns about weak standards.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Bronner's (founded 1948 by Emanuel Bronner; David Bronner CEO; Michael Bronner President since 2015; B Corp not renewed Feb 2025 with quoted rationale; own fair-trade/organic production systems in Ghana, Sri Lanka, Samoa, India, Kenya; 2024 wrongful-death lawsuit settled Mar 2025).
Why there is no score: Site could not be read. No verdict is given. Neither a full ingredient read nor a check of the certifications against the certifiers own registers has been completed for this brand, so there is no basis for judging it either way. No score is published. No readable product listing could be found at https://www.drbronner.com, so the catalogue could not be enumerated. A manual product by product read has not yet been completed.
Last checked 22 July 2026.
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