Certified B Corp (2020); carbon-offset programs; vegan; refill and recycling initiatives. Good On You rates it 'It's a Start' (score 59), mid-tier, not top.
| Ingredient transparency | Could not be retrieved (no readable product feed, or requests blocked) |
| Ownership | Aesop is owned by L'Oreal. L'Oreal signed an agreement to acquire Aesop from Natura & Co in April 2023 and completed the purchase on 30 August 2023 for approximately 2.52 billion US dollars, placing Aesop within L'Oreal's Luxe division. Natura & Co had owned Aesop since 2012. The certifying legal entity is Emeis Cosmetics Pty Ltd, trading as Aesop. The brand continues to trade under L'Oreal ownership. (L'Oreal wholly owns) |
| Where made | Australia, with Melbourne based research and development and carbon neutral certified Australia and New Zealand operations; other manufacturing sites are not disclosed. |
| Price | Luxury |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Yes |
| Organic | Partial |
| Certifications | B Corp: held, not pending or lapsed. B Lab's own register lists Emeis Cosmetics Pty Ltd (trading as Aesop) as certified since October 2020, with a current overall score of 84.0 out of 200 against a certified median of 50.9. The register shows this as an active certification carried through the change of ownership, with the 2020 certification score recorded at 87.1 against the present 84.0. Cruelty Free International Leaping Bunny: held. Aesop's own listing appears in Cruelty Free International's approved brand directory, covering skin, hair, fragrance, body, hand and home formulations. No COSMOS, Ecocert, NATRUE, USDA Organic, Regenerative Organic, Fair for Life, MADE SAFE or Toitu certification was found for Aesop, and none of these appear to be claimed by the brand. |
| Sold in mainland China | Yes, sells in mainland China, on Tmall Global since 2018 and in Shanghai stores since 2021, under the post 2021 exemption from mandatory animal testing for imported general cosmetics. |
| Palm oil | An RSPO member that says all of its palm oil is RSPO certified, with remaining palm oil and derivative consumption offset through the PalmTrace scheme. |
| Packaging | PCR, recyclable; refills |
| Good On You | Rated Good overall, with Planet 3 out of 5, People 3 out of 5 and Animals 5 out of 5. |
| EWG | No EWG Verified certification found. |
| External ratings | B Corp certified |
| Controversies | Its 2023 sale to L'Oreal, a group that sells widely in mainland China and is not Leaping Bunny approved group wide, has drawn criticism of Aesop's ethical positioning, and no Aesop sustainability update has been published since. |
| Caveat | Owned by L'Oreal since 2023, bought for $2.5 billion from Natura &Co, so brand level data is increasingly folded into L'Oreal group reporting. |
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. No fibre, carbon reduction or organic claims requiring correction were found in the sources checked.
B Corp certified since October 2020, score 84.0 https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/aesop/
Cruelty Free International Leaping Bunny approval https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/approved-brands/listing/aesop/
L'Oreal completed acquisition 30 August 2023 https://www.loreal.com/en/press-release/group/l-oreal-completes-acquisition-of-aesop/
Prior ownership by Natura & Co since 2012 and deal value https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/natura-co-sells-aesop-to-loreal-301788936.html
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.aesop.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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