Certified B Corp; does not test on animals; working toward Leaping Bunny
| Ingredient transparency | Not readable automatically (script-loaded or published as an image) |
| Ownership | Founded 1983 in Parma, Italy by the Bollati family; remains family-owned and independent, no acquisition found. Davide Bollati is Chairman/President (son of the founders); Anthony Molet has been CEO of Davines Group International since 2020. Still trading, operating in 90+ countries, and includes sister skincare brand Comfort Zone. (Family-owned) |
| Where made | Italy, in house at Davines Village in Parma, with some China market SKUs made locally in China. |
| Price | Luxury |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Partial |
| Organic | Partial |
| Certifications | B Corp: confirmed directly via B Lab's own directory (bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/davines/), 'Davines Group,' certified since 2016, recertified since (per Davines' own recertification announcements, most recently November 2023 with a stated B Impact score of 123.5, up from an initial 99 in 2016); its Italian and US entities have also been legal Benefit Corporations since 2019. This is genuine and directory-confirmed, the strongest, best-evidenced claim in this brand's file. not PETA-listed: no crueltyfree.peta.org page found for Davines despite repeated searches. not Leaping Bunny certified: no leapingbunny.org/brand/davines page found (404) and none indexed. not COSMOS, not Ecocert certified as a brand: Davines instead uses its own self-authored 'Davines Naturalness Criterion' (created 2018, stricter than ISO 16128), which is a proprietary in-house standard, not a third-party COSMOS or Ecocert audit, even though Davines' own marketing sits it alongside those registries. |
| Sold in mainland China | Yes, but since 2021 Davines has manufactured its non special use products inside China, a route that avoids pre market animal testing, with a residual post market testing risk it says it would answer by recalling product. |
| Palm oil | Publishes a palm oil position stating it preferentially buys RSPO certified palm oil and blends it with other plant surfactants such as olive derived ones. |
| Packaging | Recyclable; carbon-offset; sustainability-focused |
| Good On You | Rated Not Good Enough overall, with a Good score on the planet pillar. |
| EWG | Davines products are listed across EWG Skin Deep with mixed hazard scores; no EWG Verified certification found. |
| External ratings | B Corp; CFK cruelty-free |
| Lab tested | Not publicly disclosed |
| Clinical studies | Not published |
| Controversies | Good On You rates Davines Not Good Enough overall because it does not publish an aggregate supplier breakdown, and its mainland China manufacturing route keeps it off some cruelty-free certification lists. |
| Caveat | Still trading in 2026; a family owned B Corp publishing a genuine annual GRI report since 2016, but the mainland China route and thin supplier disclosure are the real weak points. The cruelty-free reputation widely attached to Davines is not backed by either major registry: no PETA listing and no Leaping Bunny listing were found. Its B Corp certification is genuine and directory-confirmed, certified since 2016. |
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.
Davines' 'cruelty-free' reputation is widely assumed in natural-hair-care press given its sustainability profile, but it is NOT backed by either major cruelty-free registry checked here, no PETA listing and no Leaping Bunny listing were found for Davines, unlike Sunday Riley, Briogeo, and OUAI in this same batch, which do hold a genuine registry certification. 'Cruelty-free' should therefore be treated as an unverified brand claim for Davines specifically, and its China market presence (where animal testing can be legally required) is flagged by third-party trackers as an unresolved complication. Likewise, 'COSMOS/Ecocert-grade natural formulation' is sometimes implied by association with those bodies in Davines' own sustainability materials, but the brand's actual naturalness standard is self-defined, not issued by Ecocert or COSMOS, strip any claim that this is a third-party-audited natural/organic certification. The one strong, verifiable claim is B Corp; the cruelty-free and 'clean/natural' language around it should not be assumed to carry equivalent third-party rigor.
B Lab directory confirmation (Certified since 2016, Italian/US Benefit Corporations since 2019) https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/davines/
Davines B Corp recertification history and score https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beauty-features/davines-group-obtains-b-corp-certification-10717769/
Davines B Corp recertification, score 123.5 https://us.davines.com/blogs/news/our-new-and-improved-b-corp-score-recertification
Davines self-authored Naturalness Criterion (not a COSMOS/Ecocert audit) https://us.davines.com/blogs/filosofia-formulativa/il-criterio-di-naturalita-davines
Family ownership, Davide Bollati Chairman, Anthony Molet CEO since 2020 https://wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/beauty-features/davines-group-davide-bollati-sales-growth-investments-hospitality-1238687995/
Why there is no score: Site could not be read. No score is published. No readable product listing could be found at https://davines.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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