Maintain healthy practice

Product quality & safety

Kenvue products are known and trusted by consumers around the world. From gently cleaning tiny fingers during a baby’s first bath to protecting the vitality of your skin; from soothing aches and pains to relieving coughs and allergies—we strive to deliver safe and effective products for everyday care.

Our commitment to quality, safety, and compliance is fundamental to Kenvue, and our aim is to meet the expectations of our customers and consumers. By focusing on quality and safety throughout a product’s lifecycle, from the early stages of research and development (R&D) to the product’s end of life, we strive to meet our responsibility to both people and our planet.

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Kenvue global safety & quality commitment

Our commitment to quality, safety and compliance is fundamental to Kenvue, and our aim is to meet the expectations of our customers and consumers. By focusing on quality and safety throughout a product’s lifecycle, from the early stages of research and development (R&D) to the product’s end of life, we strive to meet our responsibility to both people and our planet.

Quality & safety governance

Oversight for product quality and safety is held by cross-functional governance and advisory bodies who work together to help provide strict oversight of product benefits, potential safety risks, safety risk management, and compliance with global and local regulations throughout a product’s lifecycle.

Position on animal testing

At Kenvue, we believe that cosmetic products can be assessed for safety and efficacy without compromising animal welfare. Non-animal testing methods such as in vitro—tests performed on cells or tissue outside of a living organism—and computer modeling, such as in silico testing, are important technologies that can replace animal models. We continue to promote non-animal testing alternatives and support efforts to eliminate the testing of cosmetic products or ingredients on animals globally, including through appropriate legislative bans. Learn more.

Sustainable product innovation

Innovation is at the heart of our commitment to enabling a healthier future, one that prioritizes both human health and well-being, as well as environmental responsibility. At Kenvue, we are advancing sustainable product innovation by integrating leading-edge science with responsible design, ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of safety, efficacy and sustainability. From reducing our environmental footprint through smarter packaging and ingredient choices to exploring new ways to enhance product circularity, we are creating meaningful change. By continuously evolving our product formulations, packaging, and manufacturing processes, we are creating innovative solutions that not only help improve lives today and deliver everyday care but also help protect the planet for future generations.

Our goals & commitments:

75% of new product development,¹ using scientific principles,² will have an improved environmental performance³ by 2030⁴

Sustainable Innovation Profiler

In 2024, we piloted our Sustainable Innovation Profiler, a patent-pending product sustainability assessment tool, which helps us measure product performance for social and environmental factors in service of our commitment to sustainable innovation. The tool is embedded in our Human-Centered Innovation process and is used by our R&D scientists to assess the environmental performance of product prototypes during design.

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Sustainable ingredient strategy

Our ingredients and their selection present a compelling opportunity to improve environmental performance through science-based sustainable product innovation. Major advances in environmental science, agronomy, biotechnology, and green chemistry have unlocked the potential of renewable natural raw materials and ingredients of natural origins in order to be effective in product formulations, while often having a lower environmental impact than fossil-fuel-derived ingredients.

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Supplier partnerships

As part of our commitment to sustainability, we collaborate with our strategic suppliers to develop a robust collection and verification framework for supplier-specific emissions data. This framework establishes standardized methodologies for measuring and reporting emissions and helps ensure accuracy and transparency across our supply chain. We are currently implementing this framework into our business-as-usual practices, which involves integrating the emissions data into our decision-making processes and product development strategies.

Product transparency

At Kenvue, we believe trust is built on transparency. Consumers today seek not only effective consumer health solutions but also clear, accessible information about the products they use every day. That’s why we are committed to providing details about our ingredients, formulations, and the science behind them, empowering consumers to make informed choices for their well-being. This in turn enhances trust in our brands and products.

Our goals & commitments:

Provide greater product transparency, beginning with our ingredients

EcoBeautyScore Association

Kenvue is a member of the EcoBeautyScore Association, a global, voluntary initiative of more than 35 organizations whose primary objective is to develop a product environmental impact assessment and scoring system for cosmetic products and their packaging. The EcoBeautyScore considers 16 environmental and health impacts across the lifecycle of a product. The aggregated product score of these impacts helps consumers compare products within a category. At launch, the EcoBeautyScore will initially focus on four product categories (facial moisturizers and treatments, body cleansers, shampoos, and hair treatments) with the intention to expand to other product categories after 2025. Kenvue has been a member of the initiative since 2021 and has helped contribute to the design and development of the methodology.

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2D barcodes

In preparation for EU regulations that rely on 2D barcodes, and in anticipation that the retail sector will shift from GS1 to 2D barcodes in the coming years, Kenvue is embracing the technology, which consumers broadly adopted during Covid. Our brands are developing digital platforms and 2D technologies to expand the type and amount of product information they provide to consumers. In 2024, we also laid the groundwork to pilot the use of QR codes across multiple brands in 2025, given its many marketing benefits.

Ingredients glossaries

Transparency and credibility are essential in building consumer trust, and we are committed to making clear, science-backed, and verifiable claims about Kenvue products. Many of our brands have developed their own ingredients glossaries focused on the common ingredients specific to their products, including Johnson’s^® Baby, Neutrogena^® and Zarbee’s^®.

Human rights

At Kenvue, we believe that protecting human rights is fundamental to our mission of supporting healthier lives. Guided by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP), we integrate human rights considerations into our operations and across our value chain, with the aim to prevent, mitigate and remediate risks. We work closely with our suppliers, business partners, and other stakeholders to uphold ethical sourcing, fair labor practices, and safe working conditions. Through due diligence programs, collaboration, and responsible business practices, we aim to help create a value chain that not only delivers trusted products but also contributes to a more just and sustainable world. Learn more about our Human Rights position and Sustainable Sourcing position.

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Respecting human rights

Human rights are inherent to all human beings, and include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to work and education, among others. At Kenvue, we believe that human rights must be respected and that business, in addition to government, has an important role to play in preserving them.

Supplier code of conduct

Inspired by our Healthy Lives Mission and underpinned by international standards, the Kenvue Supplier Code of Conduct (SCOC)—available in nine languages, including English—sets forth the values, principles, and expectations regarding the ethical, social, and environmental conduct we expect from our suppliers. In addition to adhering to the expectations outlined in the SCOC, we expect our suppliers to uphold similar requirements in their own business partnerships, to encourage those partnerships to cascade our expectations to their suppliers, and to make reasonable efforts to disclose information to Kenvue, where relevant.

Human rights impact assessment

In 2024, Kenvue conducted its first human rights impact assessment (HRIA) with the aim of identifying the potential and actual adverse impacts of our operations on human rights, aiming to identify, prevent, mitigate, and remediate any negative effects on individuals and communities. Companies must conduct an HRIA to meet the UNGP’s expectation that businesses know and show that they do not infringe on human rights through operations or business relationships. Kenvue’s HRIA sought to identify the potential human rights impacts across our value chain including upstream, owned operations and downstream impacts.

Kenvue 2024 Healthy Lives Mission Report

In our Healthy Lives Mission Report, we outline our management of our Company’s most significant impacts, risks and opportunities within our three pillars; communicate our goals and commitments to hold ourselves accountable for demonstrating progress; and share how we put everyday care into action in 2024 to advance the well-being of both people and our planet.

June 26, 2025

View the 2024 report

¹New product development includes improvement of existing product or new products in each calendar year.

²Scientific principles are defined across four pillars—carbon footprint, green chemistry, sustainable packaging and product environmental footprint.

³Improved environmental performance is defined as improvement in one or more of the four pillars, with no regression compared to the baseline product, measured using Kenvue’s Sustainable Innovation Profiler (SIP).

⁴We aim to meet the goal by end of fiscal year and publish the year after.