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The Detox Market
A multi-brand clean beauty retailer operating both online and through physical stores in Southern California and Canada (thedetoxmarket.ca). Curates against its own public Banned Ingredients List and screens submissions through a partnership with The Good Face Project's ingredient database. Suits shoppers who want a large, heavily-vetted multi-brand catalog rather than a single-standard boutique.
What it's good at
- Publishes a Banned Ingredients List and rejects any submitted product containing a listed ingredient; partners with The Good Face Project to screen every ingredient on every label for toxicity
- Accepts fewer than 2% of the brand submissions it receives in a given year, per its own stated curation rate
- Operates physical retail locations (Southern California — West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and others — plus multiple Toronto/Yorkville locations under thedetoxmarket.ca), not online-only
Worth knowing first
Premium pricing is typical of this retail tier — no low-price positioning.
How we scored it
Publishes a Banned Ingredients List and rejects any submission that contains a listed ingredient — accepts under 2% of brand submissions.
Score breakdown
3.7avg /5- Editorial
- 5/5
- Trust
- 4/5
- Value
- 3/5
- Selection
- 4/5
- Shipping
- 3/5
- Service
- 3/5
Public banned-ingredients list plus a named third-party ingredient-screening partner (Good Face Project) and a stated <2% acceptance rate is an unusually well-documented curation bar. Source
Standards are published and a named external screening partner is disclosed, but there's no independent audit of compliance that could be verified. Source
Low confidence — no comparative pricing data found; premium/prestige pricing is typical of this retail tier but not independently verified here. Source
One of the largest multi-brand clean-beauty catalogs in the category, spanning skin, hair, body, and color across dozens of brands, per retail-trade coverage of its flagship stores. Source
US free-shipping threshold is $50, but the site noted an active warehouse-transition delay at time of check and international orders exclude gift cards/subscriptions. Source
Low confidence — no independent service-quality data (return/complaint rates) found; scored at category-typical midpoint. Source
The company behind VGD Holdco (Violet Grey / The Detox Market)
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California (with additional locations in Toronto and New York)
- Ownership
- PE-backed
Worth re-checking annually — standards are the asset.
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