What does the EPA Safer Choice label mean?

EPA Safer Choice is a certification that verifies stringent criteria based on human and environmental health, as well as compliance with the EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredients List. In order to obtain the Safer Choice label, products must meet stringent health, environmental and transparency criteria, where each and every ingredient is screened for potential adverse health effects. In addition to ingredient reviews, the product’s packaging and performance are also evaluated to ensure it’s both uncompromisingly safe and efficacious. We know reading labels can be stressful, but the Safer Choice logo makes it easy. Next time you see the Safer Choice label on Grove cleaning products, such as our hand soap and liquid laundry, you can trust they were made using the safest ingredients available.

“EPA/Safer Choice recognition does not constitute endorsement of these products. The Safer Choice logo signifies that the products’ formulas, as Grove Collaborative has represented it to the EPA, contain ingredients with more positive human health and environmental characteristics than conventional products of the same type. EPA/Safer Choice relies solely on Grove Collaborative,  its integrity and good faith, for information on the products’ composition, ingredients and attributes. EPA/Safer Choice has not independently identified, that is, via chemical analysis, the ingredients in the products’ formula, nor evaluated any of Grove Collaborative non-ingredient claims. EPA/Safer Choice provides its evaluation only as to the products’ human health and environmental characteristics, as specified in the Standard and based on currently available information and scientific understanding.”