Quality and testing
Are Shaklee products good quality?
Shaklee publishes some specific numbers about how it tests. Here they are, with a clear line between what Shaklee says about itself and what an independent third party says.
350+
contaminants screened
Shaklee states it screens every new botanical for more than 350 contaminants, pesticides, and impurities, and describes this as three times the US Pharmacopeia standard.
100,000+
quality tests a year
Shaklee states it runs over 100,000 quality tests annually across its products.
Non-GMO
raw and finished testing
Shaklee states its food ingredients are non-GMO, that raw materials are tested for GMO content, and that finished products are tested to confirm the same. Formal certification is described as in progress.
What “Beyond Organic” means, and what it does not
This is Shaklee’s own phrase, so it is worth being precise about it. Their argument is that organic certification tells you how and where an ingredient was grown, but not what is in the finished product once it has been harvested, processed, and put in a bottle. So they test after harvest as well, and work with suppliers on purity and potency of the final product.
That is a sensible position. It is also a company philosophy rather than a third-party certification, and those are not the same thing. I would rather tell you that plainly than let the phrase do work it has not earned.
The part that is not Shaklee marking its own homework
The Environmental Working Group is independent of Shaklee. It maintains the Skin Deep database, which scores personal care products on ingredient hazard, and it runs the EWG VERIFIED programme. A number of Shaklee products are listed, and several are EWG VERIFIED. The brand page is linked in the sources below, and you can browse it without going through me.
On the business rather than the product side, Shaklee Canada Inc. has been a BBB Accredited Business since 1976 and currently holds an A+ rating.
Environmental record
Shaklee became the first company in the world certified Climate Neutral, in 2000, and states that it maintained 100% net carbon-neutral status as recently as 2023. Along the way it collected a long list of environmental awards, and its cleaning products were selected for use by the Cousteau Society, the Wild Dolphin Project, and the Biosphere 2 project.
That history is genuinely unusual for a consumer products company, and it is long enough to deserve its own page.
Sources
- Beyond Organic
- Non-GMO
- Environmental Achievements
- Shaklee brand listing in the Skin Deep database
- Shaklee Canada Inc business profile
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Quality and testing: common questions
Are Shaklee products good quality?
The honest answer is that "good quality" depends on what you mean. What I can give you is what is verifiable: Shaklee publishes specific testing figures, including screening every new botanical for over 350 contaminants and running more than 100,000 quality tests a year. Those are Shaklee’s own numbers. The independent check available to you is the Environmental Working Group, which rates many Shaklee products in its Skin Deep database, and several carry EWG VERIFIED status.
What does "Beyond Organic" actually mean?
It is Shaklee’s own term, not a certification. Their argument is that organic certification covers how and where an ingredient is grown, but says nothing about what ends up in the finished product, so they verify purity after harvest as well. It is a reasonable position, but it is a company philosophy rather than a third-party standard, and it is worth knowing the difference.
Are Shaklee products certified organic?
Not as a blanket claim, and Shaklee does not make one. "Beyond Organic" is explicitly a different thing from organic certification. If a specific product carries a specific certification, that belongs on that product’s page, not in a general claim.
Are Shaklee products non-GMO?
Shaklee states that all of its food ingredients are non-GMO, that suppliers certify this, that raw materials are tested for GMO content, and that finished products are tested to confirm it. Shaklee describes formal non-GMO certification as a process still under way across its food products.
Is there any independent verification?
The Environmental Working Group is the main one available to a consumer. EWG is independent of Shaklee, rates products on ingredient hazard, and lists many Shaklee products in Skin Deep. I link the brand page in the sources so you can look without going through me.
Are these numbers audited?
Not that I can show you. The 350-contaminant screen and the 100,000 annual tests are figures Shaklee publishes about itself. I am reporting them as Shaklee’s claims and linking where they are published, rather than presenting them as independently confirmed, because I have not seen an independent audit of them.
Want to look at a specific product?
Individual product pages carry the ingredient lists, and where I have them, EWG ratings and ingredient-level research.
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