Natural/certified-organic-leaning skincare; recyclable packaging; positioned as clean science-led beauty. Specific certifications and current ownership not fully confirmed in this research.
| Ingredient transparency | Not readable automatically (script-loaded or published as an image) |
| Ownership | Independent and privately held: L Occitane sold its majority stake in April 2024 to former L Occitane CEO Andre Hoffmann. |
| Where made | Founded and formulated in Melbourne, Australia, though the brand does not state a manufacturing location anywhere on its own site. |
| Price | Premium |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Partial |
| Organic | Partial |
| Sold in mainland China | Grown Alchemist launched with Sephora China in 2022 and Cruelty-Free Kitty reports it sells into mainland China online only rather than through physical stores, but the brand publishes no China policy of its own. |
| Palm oil | No public disclosure found. |
| Packaging | Recyclable |
| Good On You | Rated "Not good enough" by Good On You, with Planet 2/5, People 2/5 and Animals 3/5. |
| EWG | Individual products are scored in EWG Skin Deep, mostly against older 2019 formulations, and no Grown Alchemist product was found in the EWG VERIFIED programme. |
| External ratings | PETA-certified cruelty-free; ACO (Australian Certified Organic) and SCA (Safe Cosmetics Australia) accreditations; mostly vegan (beeswax in lip balm); recyclable packaging |
| Controversies | Retailers and press routinely describe the brand as certified organic, yet Grown Alchemist's own help centre states plainly that it is not certified organic and only uses organic grades of ingredients where available. |
| Caveat | Still trading, but ownership changed in April 2024 when L'Occitane Group sold its majority stake to former L'Occitane chief executive Andre Hoffmann and the brand moved into private ownership. |
| Reports note | <p>Formerly majority-owned by L’Occitane Group; in 2024 the stake was sold to André Hoffman (former L’Occitane vice-chair), so no longer part of L’Occitane. PETA-certified with Australian organic accreditations; mostly-not-fully vegan; no published clinical studies or COAs.</p> |
Why there is no score: No ingredient lists published. 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. The brand's product pages could be reached, but they carry no ingredient list in readable text, so there is nothing to categorise.
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.
We read and categorise every ingredient for brands whose full list is published as readable text. This one could not be read automatically, so its formulas are not yet verified here. A complete ingredient list published in readable text is what makes a clean claim checkable.