Certifications, Labels and Memberships

In today’s complex world, it is challenging to tell a compelling sustainability story. Consumers are less likely to say that they have seen, read, or heard brands communicating about sustainability, and those who have been exposed to sustainability messages are now less likely to trust them. This is where independent labels and third-party assurances can help.

For consumers, third-party verification makes desired product attributes easier to recognize and compare at the store or online. This consumer preference is supported by retail data, with Amazon reporting an average 12% sales lift for products after receiving Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly badge.

BASF supports a range of partnerships and certification schemes through direct membership, certified raw materials, and supporting documentation where direct certification is not available. This demonstrates our commitment to sustainability and enables our customers to formulate products with proof points that consumers can trust — a win-win for customers, consumers, and the environment.

Source: GlobeScan-Healthy-and-Sustainable-Living-Highlights-Report-2025-.pdf Sustainability labels are shifting shopping decisions - Amazon Sustainability

Key Memberships

Responsible Care

Responsible Care is a performance framework for the chemical industry that drives continuous improvement in protecting employee health and safety, supporting communities and enhancing environmental performance.

EcoVadis

EcoVadis provides reliable, globally recognized sustainability ratings and insights, enabling all companies to reduce risk, drive improvement and accelerate positive impact on the planet and society.

Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI)

The RCI aims to support and accelerate the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials.

Together for Sustainability (TfS)

TfS is an industry-leading initiative driven by chemical procurement specialists dedicated to building sustainable chemical supply chains, regulatory requirements, and responding to the needs and expectations of society.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

The WBCSD is a global network of 250+ leading companies transforming systems to deliver a net-zero, nature-positive, and equitable future.

Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT)

PACT is a not-for-profit initiative hosted by the WBCSD to accelerate decarbonization across global value chains by making product-level carbon data something every business can trust and act on.

RoundTable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

The RSPO brings together stakeholders across the supply chain to develop and implement global standards for producing and sourcing certified sustainable palm oil.

Certified Raw Materials

Safer Choice

Safer Choice helps U.S. consumers, businesses, and purchasers find products that perform and contain ingredients that are safer for human health and the environment.

Environmental Working Group

The EWG Reviewed for Ingredients empowers ingredient suppliers to help brands meet the EWG’s highest safety and transparency standards.

COSMOS

The COSMOS standard ensures that cosmetic products are genuine organic or natural and produced to the highest feasible sustainability practices.

NATRUE

The NATRUE label represents a reliable, verifiable and internationally applicable benchmark for authentic natural and organic beauty products.

REDCert2

The REDcert2 scheme certifies sustainable material flows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve resources.

ISCC+

ISCC PLUS is a voluntary certification scheme designed to validate sustainability characteristics of alternative feedstocks. It verifies the additional efforts companies make beyond regulatory compliance.

RoundTable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

The RSPO brings together stakeholders across the supply chain to develop and implement global standards for producing and sourcing certified sustainable palm oil.

Rainforest Alliance

Rainforest Alliance certifies crops produced according to rigorous standards covering environmental, social, and economic sustainability.

Sustainable Castor Association

The SCA works to implement the SuCCESS code to drive improvements in the sustainability of the castor farms for the benefit of the farmers and the entire castor supply chain.

RoundTable for Responsible Soy (RTRS)

The RTRS works to promote the growth of production, trade, and use of responsible soy through cooperation with actors in and relevant to the soy value chain from production to consumption.

Fair for Life

Fair for Life is a certification program that combines social, environmental and fair trade requirements designed to support responsible practices among actors involved in certified supply chains.

FairWild

FairWild provides a worldwide framework for implementing a sustainable, fair and value-added management and trading system for wild-collected natural ingredients and products thereof.

Supporting Documentation (compliance is determined by finished product manufacturer)

EU Ecolabel

The EU Ecolabel is awarded to products and services that have a lower environmental impact than comparable products and is recognized in all member states of the European Union, as well as Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.

Nordic Swan

Nordic Swan promotes resource efficiency, reduced climate impact, a non-toxic circular economy and conservation of biodiversity and is the official ecolabel of the Nordic countries.

Blue Angel

Blue Angel is the ecolabel of the German Federal Government that sets stringent standards for environmentally friendly products and services.

Vegan

Vegan certifications work to promote vegan lifestyles for the benefit of animals, people and the environment.

Cruelty-Free

Cruelty-free certifications aim to end animal testing for cosmetics and household products.

The next step starts here

Every application comes with different requirements. Explore the certifications, labels and memberships relevant to your needs and find available product-specific information and supporting documentation in myBASFWorld.

Explore myBASFWord