The most ethical chocolate in the UK equals guilt-free calories.
Everything tastes better when it’s socially and environmentally just, after all—just ask these sustainable food brands.
But these companies we’ve curated aren’t just prioritizing fair trade and ethical labor, but also healthy and safe ingredients we can understand, and low-waste packaging.
We’ll soon be applying our new Brand Rating System, which will asses brands’ eco-attributes across a wide range of factors, including their environmental footprint and water use. You can learn more about that in our explainer.
Most Sustainable Chocolate Brands
As a tasty teaser, consider the palm oil-free creamy treats from Raw Chocolate Company, which are blended 3x as long as conventional chocolate.
Conscious Chocolate’s name says it all. The woman-owned brand pays well, is powered by renewables, and uses fair trade, organic Peruvian cacao. Enough said.
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Index: UK’s Most Sustainable Chocolate
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Raw Chocolate Company
About Raw Chocolate Company’s Organic Chocolate UK
Doling out “chocolate with soul,” Raw Chocolate Company can satisfy your cocoa cravings with sustainable chocolate bars, sharing bags, snack packs, buttons, hot chocolate, and hampers.
Every ingredient is certified organic and ground for at least three times as long as conventional chocolate.
Raw Chocolate Company’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Ingredients:
Organic, minimally-processed cacao is joined by ethically sourced ingredients like nuts, ginger, goji berries, and mulberries.
The palm oil free chocolate is also raw, i.e it’s never heated above 42 degrees to help retain all of its natural goodness.
Everything is vegan, organic, raw, refined sugar-free, gluten-free, palm oil-free, and plastic free.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Raw Chocolate Company is a Certified B Corp that sources ingredients through trusted partnerships.
Green Business Practices:
The chocolate is created in zero-waste, eco-powered kitchens and comes in biodegradable and compostable packaging.
To further lower manufacturing impact, you can try your own hand at being an eco chocolatier using their provided ingredients.
Community & Charitable Giving:
In support of agroforestry, every $30 purchase plants a tree in Peru.
Conscious Chocolate
About Conscious Chocolate Vegan Chocolate
Conscious Chocolate is the Certified B Corp behind this exquisite handmade organic raw chocolate.
Worried your dietary restrictions might rule this one out? Don’t because “Free From” is the brand’s main priority.
Which is why their entire range—including sustainable chocolate bars, snacks, nibbles, gifts, and hampers—contains no dairy, soya, refined sugar, and gluten.
That means anyone can eat it!
Conscious Chocolate’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Ingredients:
Organic, fair trade Peruvian cacao is joined by mostly organic, always GMO-free ingredients like fruit peels, essential oils, and coconut blossom sugar.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Ethical sourcing is prioritized, Conscious Chocolate has strong relationships with all suppliers, which you can learn about in each product description.
In addition to above minimum wage pay, flexible scheduling, and WFH options, staff receive free regular yoga and meditation sessions before meetings.
They’re female-founded and the decision-making board is one-third women.
Green Business Practices:
The chocolate is made in energy-neutral kitchens powered by mostly wind (and a little hydro and solar) energy.
They’re also waste-free, conscious about water use and use organic cleaning products.
All packaging is plastic free and printed with vegetable ink labels.
Tony’s Chocolonely
About Tony’s Chocolonely’s Chocolate
One of the key players in slave-free chocolate, Dutch company Tony’s Chocolonely is deliciously dedicated to better chocolate.
Not only are their Big Bars, Small Bars, and Tiny Tony’s 100% slave-free, but they’re working to make it a reality for all chocolate.
Tony’s Chocolonely’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Ingredients:
Their chocolate is made with mostly Fairtrade-certified cocoa, sugar, and other fun ingredients like chocolate chip cookies, caramel, nuts, pretzels, and even popping candy.
Some are vegan-friendly.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Tony’s sources slave-free traceable cocoa from West African (Ghana and Ivory Coast) farms.
They pay it forward by paying a higher price (Fairtrade premium + Tony’s additional premium), assisting farmers to increase their earnings, partner with farmers for at least 5 years, and help them invest in resources like better fertilizer.
By creating awareness, leading by example, and sharing their impact, they’ve been successful in getting companies like Ben & Jerry’s to follow suit and clean up their cocoa act.
This year they earned their highest Certified B-Corp score yet.
Seed & Bean
About Seed & Bean’s Sustainable Chocolate
Serving up “chocolate with a wild side”, Seed & Bean is one of the best chocolate brands in the UK for those who like a change of pace.
You can find 18 brave flavors and a bold commitment to ethics and sustainability to match in their sustainable milk chocolate and dark chocolate bars and gift bundles.
Seed & Bean’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Ingredients:
The company’s single-origin cocoa and all other ingredients (“every single little crumb…”) are certified organic by The Soil Association.
Supply chain & labor practices:
The small-batch chocolate is handmade in England and 16 of the 18 bars are Fairtrade certified.
Green Business Practices:
Seed & Bean was the first ethical chocolate UK company to use fully compostable packaging.
It’s made from wood pulp sourced from responsibly-managed eucalyptus plantations and meets standards for home and industrial composting.
Chocolate And Love
About Chocolate and Love’s Chocolate Boxes
With award-winning organic and Fairtrade chocolate, Chocolate and Love is one of the most treasured sustainable chocolate brands in the world.
The Switzerland-based company got its name for a reason: a foodie Dane and chocolate-craving Scotsman met, fell in love, and started making chocolate bars, tins, and gift boxes
Chocolate and Love’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Ingredients:
Whether you buy a bar for yourself or a gift box for a loved one, you’re getting something made with 100% organic ingredients.
Emulsifiers, preservatives, coloring agents, and soy lecithin are always avoided.
They have a vegan range, too.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Chocolate and Love is one of the only brands to have full traceability in its supply chain.
Their sourcing partners get cocoa from cooperatives in Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Madagascar.
Each product description lists the specific Fairtrade co-ops for both cocoa and sugar.
On top of a minimum price, these co-ops receive a Premium, which helps them become more resilient to climate change, educate their children, or make improvements to their community.
Other ingredients are sourced locally before being produced in Switzerland.
Green Business Practices:
FSC-certified paper is used for the outer wrapper and the biodegradable silver inner wrappers are made with wood pulp from sustainable plantations.
The whole package can be composted industrially and in your home indoor compost bin alike.
Community & Charitable Giving:
Chocolate and Love supports reforestation projects and has planted 28,000 trees in Ethiopia and Tanzania to date.
Cocoa Loco
About Cocoa Loco’s Fair Trade Chocolate
Cocoa Loco drives us (naturally) crazy with their eco-friendly chocolate.
Sustainable hot chocolate to gourmet truffles, we’re sure you’ll be equally as loco over their range.
All of the tasty treats—like bars, truffles, baking chocolate, hot chocolate, chocolate-making kits, gift boxes, buttons, thins, and more—are made in their Sussex based Chocolate Barn by a team of experienced chocolatiers.
Cocoa Loco’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Ingredients:
Coco Loco’s chocolate is both Soil Association-certified organic and Fairtrade certified.
They don’t use artificial additives, palm oil, or preservatives either.
They have a vegan chocolate range, though due to potential processing contamination, they may contain traces of eggs, dairy, or other allergens.
Supply chain & labor practices:
The certified Fairtrade chocolate is sourced from the Dominican Republic, where the crop is grown by 40,000 small-scale cocoa growers.
Paying a Fairtrade premium has helped to repair and build schools and provide scholarships and equipment to students.
Green Business Practices:
All products come in 100% plastic-free packaging which will biodegrade at home or industrially.
Community & Charitable Giving:
They partner with local charities to provide 10% commissions on chocolate purchases.
Doisy And Dam
About Doisy and Dam’s Chocolate Subscriptions
With a motto like “Dark Chocolate But Fun” and bright, bubbly packaging, Doisy and Dam is as much eye candy as it is chocolate candy.
They’re stocked with guilty pleasures like chocolate share bags, bars, snack packs, bundles, and gifts.
If you’re embracing your chocolate habit their monthly subscription box is on-point.
The chocolate is classified as Fino de Aroma (fine flavor) by the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO).
Doisy and Dam’s Ethical & Sustainability Practices
Ingredients:
Whether you get it all every month or treat yourself to a bar here and there, you’ll be biting into something that’s vegan, palm oil-free, and made with only natural ingredients.
Read that as: “nothing your grandma wouldn’t recognize”.
They’re Vegan Society Certified, but some products may contain traces of milk, gluten, nuts, peanuts, sesame, and soya.
Supply chain & labor practices:
Most of their cocoa is sourced from Columbia and comes by way of Luker Chocolate, a research facility dedicated to producing the best cocoa possible to improve farmers’ yields, profits, and quality of life.
Many of the farmers/fields were previously involved in the drug trade, so this provides better and safer livelihood opportunities.
They ethically source cocoa in countries like Ghana and Ecuador, too—some of which are Fair Trade certified.
As a Certified B Corp, they also buy through cocoa cooperatives vs the stock market, which eliminates middlemen and keeps more money in the cocoa-producing communities.
Green Business Practices:
They’re working on integrating recyclable packaging.
