Soil Association certified licensee since 1991; new products COSMOS Organic certified; ~92% of physically processed agricultural ingredients certified organic by weight; certified B Corp (early adopter). Good On You 'Good' (score 70).
| Ingredient transparency | Not readable automatically (script-loaded or published as an image) |
| Ownership | Privately owned by the Kindersley family. Founder Romy Fraser sold a controlling stake to publisher Peter Kindersley in December 2005, and the business is now co owned by Peter, Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley. There is no corporate parent. The trading company, Neal's Yard (Natural Remedies) Limited, company number 01597194, was incorporated on 11 November 1981 and remains listed as Active at Companies House, confirming the brand is still trading. |
| Where made | UK (Dorset) |
| Price | Mid-range |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Partial |
| Organic | Partial |
| Certifications | Neal's Yard Remedies appears as a licensed brand, listed as Neal's Yard Remedies Inc, in the COSMOS ORGANIC and COSMOS NATURAL Certified Products Directory run by COSMOS standard aisbl, which independently confirms genuine COSMOS certification for part of the range rather than a marketing only claim. The company states that over 60 percent of its range carries Soil Association or COSMOS certification and that 92 percent of physically processed agricultural ingredients within COSMOS scoped products are certified organic by weight, and that it was the first brand certified under the Soil Association's organic health and beauty standard in 2002. These specific percentage figures are the company's own statements. The certifier's public directory does not expose a machine readable count of Neal's Yard Remedies products or a split between COSMOS ORGANIC and COSMOS NATURAL lines, so the figures could not be independently itemised product by product, though the underlying certification relationship is confirmed. Separately, Cruelty Free International's own site documents a partnership with Neal's Yard Remedies under its Leaping Bunny programme, and the brand states its cosmetic, personal care and household lines are Leaping Bunny approved. |
| Packaging | Blue glass, recyclable |
| Good On You | Good (4/5, score 70) |
| External ratings | B Corp certified |
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.
The specific 60 percent and 92 percent figures should be attributed to the company, not to an independently published certifier count, since no public per product breakdown could be read from the COSMOS directory. A MADE SAFE certification claim for a best sellers range also appears in press coverage; MADE SAFE is not one of the certifiers this review is scoped to, so that claim is noted only as unverified against the required register list, not confirmed or denied.
COSMOS directory lists Neal's Yard Remedies Inc as a certified brand https://www.cosmos-standard.org/en/databases/products-directory/
Ownership by the Kindersley family, 2005 acquisition from Romy Fraser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal's_Yard_Remedies
Companies House status Active, incorporated 1981 https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01597194
Company's own claim of Soil Association history and percentage certified https://www.nealsyardremedies.ca/pages/more-about-the-soil-association
Company's own certified organic product page https://www.nealsyardremedies.ca/pages/certified-organic
Cruelty Free International partnership announcement https://crueltyfreeinternational.org/latest-news-and-updates/weve-teamed-neals-yard-remedies
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.nealsyardremedies.com, so the catalogue could not be enumerated. A manual product by product read has not yet been completed.
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.