Green Beaver safety review
Founded 2002 · Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada
Our verdict
AcceptableGreen Beaver is graded acceptable. One certification can be read on a certifier's own register: Ecocert's public directory lists The Green Beaver Company Limited of Hawkesbury, Ontario, as a brand holder and manufacturer under its natural and organic cosmetics standard. That entry certifies the company as an operator and names no products, and on Green Beaver's own site the Ecocert claim is attached to one product, so it does not tell you what is in the toothpaste, sunscreen or deodorant in your hand. We found no recall under the brand in Health Canada's recall database, openFDA or CPSC, and no California Proposition 65 notice, as of 2026-10-12. It is not recommended for a second reason: its marketing leans on a link this site has corrected on its own deodorant pages. Green Beaver sells what it calls an aluminum-free antiperspirant and says that, in honor of a co-founder's sister who died of breast cancer, "a portion of all Natural Aluminum-Free Antiperspirants sold on our website will be donated to organizations supporting individuals & families affected by diseases related to aluminum exposure." The US National Cancer Institute says "no scientific evidence links the use of these products to the development of breast cancer." Buy the product because you prefer the formula, not because of that implication.
- Best for
- A reader who wants Canadian-made toothpaste, soap, mineral sunscreen or deodorant and is choosing on the formula rather than on a certification.
- Skip if
- You want a certification you can match to the exact product in your hand: Ecocert's directory certifies the company and names no products, and Green Beaver's own store attaches the Ecocert claim to one product of the 59 it lists.
Reviewed by Dan Golden · October 2026
Company facts
- What they make
- body care, oral care, sunscreen, deodorant
- Where it's made
- Founded in 2002 by Karen Clark and Alain Ménard, a biochemist and a microbiologist, per the company. The legal entity is The Green Beaver Company Ltd. of Hawkesbury, Ontario. Ecocert's directory lists the company as both brand holder and manufacturer, and the company says its products have been developed and made in Canada since 2002, at a facility it describes as minutes from the Ottawa River. The range is personal care: toothpaste, deodorant and what the company calls aluminum-free antiperspirant, mineral sunscreen, soaps, lip balm and lotions.
The company behind The Green Beaver Company Ltd.
- Founded
- 2002
- Headquarters
- Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada (760 Tupper Street, Hawkesbury, ON K6A 3H2)
- Ownership
- Independent
No outside owner who can reset the standards.
Safety breakdown
Ecocert's directory of certified customers lists THE GREEN BEAVER COMPANY LIMITED, Hawkesbury, Canada, activities "Brand holder, Manufacturer / Processor", certification "Organic and natural cosmetics — Cosmetic Ecocert v2"; the entry names no products and shows no validity date. That is Ecocert's own standard, not COSMOS: neither the company nor the brand appears in the COSMOS products directory, and the brand's own site claims only "COSMOS-approved ingredients". We found no recall under "Green Beaver" in Health Canada's recalls and safety alerts database (exact-phrase search), in openFDA food, drug or device enforcement, or in CPSC, as of 2026-10-12, and no 60-day notice under California's Proposition 65 warning-label law names it. FDA's label database lists three Green Beaver products — two SPF 40 sunscreen lotions and a sensitive-teeth toothpaste — and no antiperspirant; "aluminum-free antiperspirant" is the company's Canadian product name. The company's donation sentence about "diseases related to aluminum exposure" is on its giving-back page, which dedicates the gift to a co-founder's sister "whose life was taken too soon by breast cancer". The National Cancer Institute's fact sheet on antiperspirants and breast cancer says "no scientific evidence links the use of these products to the development of breast cancer", and this site's own deodorant pages say the evidence does not support a link between aluminum in antiperspirant and breast cancer or Alzheimer's disease. The brand describes itself as cruelty-free and names no certifier for that; it is not on the Leaping Bunny register. CourtListener returned no federal docket for the case name "Green Beaver" or the party "Green Beaver Company"; Canadian courts were not searched, and we did not check Health Canada's licensed natural health products database, so nothing here speaks to product licenses.
Recall history
No recalls found. We checked CPSC and FDA recall databases as of October 14, 2026 and found no recalls for this brand. Recall databases update continuously — if you own a recalled product, the official notice is always the source to follow.