EO Products

About EO

Brad Black and Susan Griffin-Black started EO Products in 1996 to make natural body care products based on essential oils and other safe, effective and beautiful ingredients. We're an integrated, sustainable organization and we're committed to raising the bar on how we define that with each passing year.

Love Life
We respect and honor all beings and acknowledge our interdependence with one another. We aspire to work collectively to make beautiful products and enhance the lives of each other, our customers, vendors and greater community and planet.

Live Clean
We evolve our formulas to include as many organic ingredients as possible, are committed to the non-GMO movement and ensure that our practices, products and processes are as sustainable as we can make them. We never use synthetic colors, dyes or fragrances

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The Change We Seek®

From the day we started EO in 1995, we were on fire to solve a problem most people didn't know they had: create body products free of the harmful ingredients present in almost every other choice on the market.

The unsettling fact is that public health laws allow almost any chemical as an ingredient in personal care products. There is no required safety testing in our industry and as a result, ingredients that are associated with cancer, reproductive and developmental toxicity are present in the vast majority of lotions, shampoos, soaps and other products. That's not just our opinion, it's a fact.

We're all about changing that.

We believe that business can be a mighty source for the greater good. We work with an awareness of our interconnected world and our responsibility to care for one another and for all living things. And every decision we make comes from honoring that responsibility: to people, to our community and to the planet.

People

  • Our products use pure, simple ingredients that work and are free of chemicals that aren't good for people.
  • We seek trust and transparency on the quality of our product via third party verifications: FDA and INCI on the integrity of our label ingredients and manufacturing process; CCOF for our certified organic products and certified organic manufacturing facility; GF for our gulten free product; non-GMO project on our certified GMO-free products; Leaping Bunny for certified cruelty-free; B Lab on our status as a B Corp, "companies certified to solve social and environmental problems"
  • We are proud of creating meaningful and sustainable employment for a dedicated group of amazing and talented people. We provide a profit sharing plan in which all employees participate.

Community

  • 1% of our net sales goes to organizations that help the homeless get on their feet again
  • We work where we live, we make our products ourselves and we keep as many suppliers as possible close to home
  • We do our banking with community banks to ensure our capital benefits our local economy
  • We cultivate a deliberate culture based on respect and love for one another and all living beings

Planet

  • Most of our bottles are made from 100% recycled plastic - and they are recyclable too
  • We are working towards zero-waste by 2017
  • We use organic ingredients wherever possible
  • We are the first US body care company offering certified GMO-free products - the safety of GMOs on human health is unknown and these ingredients are banned in Europe and Canada
  • All new products will be either certified-organic or certified GMO-free

 

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EO Products

  • Industry: Home & Personal Care
  • Product/Services: All Natural Personal care
  • Location: Corte Madera, CA
  • Ownership: Private
  • http://www.eoproducts.com

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Summary:

Certified: September 2011
  Points Earned % Points Available
Accountability » 6.6 68%
Employees » 26.6 54%
Consumers » 15 50%
Community » 20.9 53%
Environment » 17.4 37%
Composite B Score 86.5
  • >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
  • >60% points available = Area of excellence

Highlights:

From B Impact Assessment

Workers: 100% of non-executive workers participated in bonus plan; offer 6+ weeks of combined vacation/sick days/personal days/holidays

Environment: % of recyclable or biodegradable materials in product/packaging have increased bi-annually; >75% of printed materials use recycled paper content, FSC certified paper, or soy-based inks

Community: 40% of Significant Suppliers have 3rd-party social or environmental certification or approval

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