behind the bottle

Because guinea pigs shouldn't be used as guinea pigs

Method performs absolutely no animal testing on any of our products, and does not endorse, request, or commission any animal testing on our behalf.

Method has a forward-looking approach. We are trying to make animal testing obsolete. We ensure that none of our suppliers do any animal testing on our behalf and have lobbied to gain acceptance for our non-animal product testing protocols from regulatory agencies, retailers and consumers. For our product safety testing we use in-vitro (non-animal) simulated skin and eye irritation tests and have been successful in lobbying various federal and state agencies to accept these test methods in place of animal test results.

These efforts, and innovations like tallow-free fabric softener products, were part of the reason that PETA named our two co-founders the 2006 PETA persons of the year, and gave method a Proggy (progressive business) award in the same year.

We are proud to be certified by PETA as a cruelty-free and vegan company and are included in their cruelty-free shopping guide.