NONTOXIC CERTIFIED Information

Nontoxic Certified (NTC) programs provide a way to ensure that companies are on a path to making better products based on rigorous, defensible scientific determinations. Given there is no universally-recognized standard for better, safer, cleaner, or sustainable product formulation and manufacturing practices, we offer programs to guide companies through the maze of options delivering ingredient intelligence and improvement potential in a realistic, measured, scientific way. Every program supports safer and more sustainable products for a future where all beings can all thrive. We help companies craft and improve products for a more sustainable future working in a circular economy ensuring that products deliver against ESG or CSR goals and metrics. Through measurable, scientific data-driven insights, our team is able to partner with companies to develop a formulation (or reformulation) roadmap. Tactical steps are deployed in accordance with a company’s mission and strategy. To do this work, NTC uniquely deploys the Ecosystem Approach considering all sources of pollution including air, water, soil, sediment, aquatic life and terrestrial life. Additionally, it reviews chemistry classes, supply chain practices, and renewable sourcing practices. This evaluation process for all inputs is what provides true ingredient insights so that companies may understand the implications of ingredient selections prior to use and/or when making changes in existing products. By conducting this kind of evaluation, we flip the current chemicals first, consequences second practice existing in the US today. We put the power of ingredient selection back in the hands of companies. Truly sustainable companies are making this kind of ingredient commitment part of their sustainability efforts. We work with companies at every phase and stage to provide a roadmap for making more sustainable and closed-loop ingredient choices with tools to benchmark, share progress, and accountability.