Ethical products · sourced and checked
Most “BPA-free” kettles have a plastic lid.
Nothing illegal about it, and nothing you could call a lie. Just a claim written at the altitude where it stays true — over the one part that sits above boiling water every single time.
Épure reads what a product is actually made of, component by component, cites a source for every claim, and tells you plainly what it hasn't checked.
Worked example
What that looks like
The kettle above is a real entry. Every part is listed separately, because a single flat claim is exactly what hides the lid.
Ottoni Fabbrica
- 01Body
- STAINLESS STEEL 18/10 · satin finish
- 02Lid
- STAINLESS STEEL 18/10 · polished
- 03Spout
- STAINLESS STEEL 18/10
- 04Limescale filter
- STAINLESS STEEL 18/10 · removable
And it scores 2/4 here, because it carries a safety certification rather than an ethical one. It is the better object and the weaker entry. We'd sooner show you that than bend a score to fit our own founding story.
The directory
Best evidenced
Ranked by how much we can prove, not by how good they look. The score is 4 yes-or-no checks about the product itself, each one auditable.
Élixir Nuit Régénérant
Patyka was among the first brands Ecocert certified, back in 2002, and the serum is genuinely concentrated — but it sits at a founder-brand price, not a mass one.
Shampooing Cheveux Hydratés Coco Bio Équitable
An affordable, widely available Cosmébio-certified shampoo from the Léa Nature group — solid but unremarkable, and not marketed as vegan.
Skin Food Original
Weleda is B Corp certified as a company, but this specific formula contains beeswax so it isn't vegan, and it carries NATRUE rather than an EU organic label we track.
Eau de Parfum Bio — Tendre Patchouli
Cosmébio-certified and vegan, made in Lot-et-Garonne; organic perfumery has a more restricted ingredient palette than conventional fragrance, and the accord reads simpler as a result.
Candour
Where we fall short
Read straight from the directory, so they can't drift out of date. They are not flattering, which is the point.
- 16
- products listed, across every category we cover
- 14/16
- have a published composition — the rest we haven't sourced yet
- 60%
- of listed components matched against our 68-entry reference table
- 6
- listed on editorial grounds with no formal certification
- No invented scores
- No claim without a source
- No ranking for money
- We say when we don't know