How scoring works

Verified data, named sources, honest gaps.

The Spend Forward score is composed only from verified third-party impact data — never reviews, never crowd opinion, never our own guess.

The nine dimensions & their named authority

These are the same nine dimensions you weight on the live scorer — your slider ranking decides how much each one counts toward the composite. Each maps to exactly one named, third-party authority. Here they’re grouped into four families.

Labor & supply chain

Fair labor

KnowTheChain — supply-chain labor benchmark (0–100)

Responsible sourcing

EcoVadis — sustainability medal / score

Climate & waste

Carbon & climate

Carbon Disclosure Project — climate disclosure grade (A–F)

Packaging & waste

B Corp certification — B Impact Assessment score

Biodegradability

Open Food Facts — open product database

Health & ingredient safety

Ingredient safety

Environmental Working Group — Guide to Healthy Cleaning grade (A–F)

Health & indoor air

Environmental Protection Agency Safer Choice — certified-safer formula (pass/fail)

No PFAS — the “forever chemicals”

CleanGredients — screens for PFAS, the persistent synthetic chemicals linked to health and environmental harm (listed / not)

Animal welfare

Good On You — brand rating (1–5)

Nine dimensions, nine named authorities. Want a different source for a dimension? That's a deliberate, reviewable choice — flag it and we swap it, on the record.

How the scores are combined

Every source is put on the same 0–100 scale first — letter grades, indices, and pass/fail certifications all translated the same way — so they can be compared. Your score is then the weighted average of those dimensions, using your slider weights. A dimension you set to zero doesn’t count toward the number.

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