Certified B Corp (2020); essential-oil-based wellness/body care; long-established UK aromatherapy house.
| Ingredient transparency | Not readable automatically (script-loaded or published as an image) |
| Ownership | Aromatherapy Associates is owned by Essares AG, a Swiss private equity firm, which acquired the brand together with This Works from Walgreens Boots Alliance's No7 Beauty Company in late 2023. No7 Beauty Company had itself owned Aromatherapy Associates after an earlier sale by B&B Investment Partners. The brand continues to trade, headquartered in London with operations in the UK, US and Hong Kong. (Private-equity owned) |
| Where made | Blended in London, UK. |
| Price | Premium |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Partial |
| Organic | Partial |
| Certifications | B Corp: held. B Lab's own register lists Aromatherapy Associates as certified since August 2020, with a current overall score of 83.5 out of 200 and a 'Mission Locked' governance designation, assessed against B Impact Assessment Standards version 1.6. Cruelty Free International Leaping Bunny: held. Aromatherapy Associates has its own listing in Cruelty Free International's approved brand directory. The brand's own material states it took a year and over 200 supporting documents to obtain this approval. No COSMOS, Ecocert, NATRUE, Vegan Society, USDA Organic or Toitu certification was found; these do not appear to be claimed by the brand. |
| Sold in mainland China | No public disclosure found; the brand holds Leaping Bunny approval from Cruelty Free International, whose programme requires brands not to sell where animal testing is required by law. |
| Palm oil | No public disclosure found. |
| Packaging | Glass, recyclable |
| Good On You | No Good On You rating found. |
| EWG | No EWG VERIFIED certification found. |
| External ratings | B Corp certified |
| Controversies | No controversy found; the brand is owned by No7 Beauty Company, the Boots owned beauty arm, which is not flagged on the brand site. |
| Caveat | B Corp since 2020 with a score of 83.5, only modestly above the 80 point pass mark, and the 2026 carbon pledge has no published progress data. |
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.
None identified as false in the sources checked.
B Corp certified since August 2020, score 83.5, Mission Locked https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/aromatherapy-associates/
Cruelty Free International Leaping Bunny approval https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/approved-brands/listing/aromatherapy-associates/
Essares AG acquisition from No7 Beauty Company, late 2023 https://cosmeticsbusiness.com/aromatherapy-associates-ceo-anna-teal-steps-down-after-company-reshuffle-206260
Prior B&B Investment Partners ownership https://www.spaynelindsay.com/transactions/aromatherapy-associates-acquired-by-b-b-investment-partners
Why there is no score: Not yet checked. 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. This brand's ingredient data has not been collected yet.
Last checked 22 July 2026.
Ingredients are not present as readable text on the product pages we checked: they appear to be loaded by script or published as an image. They could not be read, categorised or compared automatically, so this brand's formulas are not yet verified here.
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