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Committed to Ingredient Transparency

We’re highly selective about the ingredients we use and don’t use, and we’re committed to communicating transparently about our ingredients and our standards, so you can feel confident in the choices you’re making for your family.

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Backed by science, driven by responsibility

When you choose an SC Johnson product, you can easily find out what’s inside it and you can trust that its ingredients have undergone our rigorous, science-based assessment.

We share more than 99.99% of the ingredients in our products.

99.99%

Our high standards limit or fully restrict the use of 200+ ingredients for our products

200+

How we choose our ingredients

We’re passionate about researching the ingredients we choose. Each ingredient we use in our products undergoes a rigorous screening process to understand potential impacts on humans and the environment.

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The choices we make

From maintaining a palette of approved fragrance ingredients, to regularly reviewing our restricted use materials list, we bring science-based, high standards to every ingredient decision.

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The ingredients we use

We tell you what’s inside our products so you can make informed choices about the products you use. We launched our first ingredient website in 2009 and we’ve continued to expand our disclosure ever since.

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Consumer Product Safety Commission Certificates

SC Johnson issues Certificates of Conformance for products as required by regulations of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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A legacy of making responsible choices

We first took a stand on an ingredient way back in 1975. Fifty years later, responsible ingredient decisions are a fundamental part of how we live up to our commitment to work for a better world.

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A 1975 decision that helped transform our industry

SC Johnson was one of the first companies to take a major, public stand against an ingredient that was harming the environment when we removed chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from our aerosol products worldwide.

A 1975 decision that helped transform our industry
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Doing the right thing, even when it hurts business

In this article from Harvard Business Review, our Chairman and CEO, Fisk Johnson, shares an example of a time when we removed an ingredient from our product, using a prior version of our Greenlist process, despite the challenges of doing so.

Doing the right thing, even when it hurts business
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