GOTS certification, and who holds one
13 of the 28 popular organic baby-clothing brands checked hold a current GOTS certificate found in the scheme's own public record, as of 2026-09-06. The rest say “organic” without one that could be found.
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What GOTS is
The Global Organic Textile Standard is a certificate issued to a company, not a description a brand may apply to itself. An approved certification body audits the company and issues a scope certificate: it names the licence number, the certifier, the operations covered (spinning, dyeing, sewing, trading, retail), the product categories, and a date on which it expires. Every one of those facts is published in the standard's own database.
Three consequences follow, and they are the reason this directory exists.
The certificate belongs to a company, not to a garment. A holder may sell certified and uncertified goods side by side. GOTS says so itself: a certified operation's whole catalogue is not automatically certified, so the label on the item is what settles a specific product.
The scope matters as much as the certificate. A certificate covering “trading” and “retail sales” says the company handled certified goods; it does not say the company made them. The scope of every certificate found here is printed on the brand's own page, unedited.
It expires. A licence current on the day it was read can lapse weeks later. Every finding here carries its expiry date so you can check it against today.
The 13 brands with a certificate on the public record
| Brand | Certificate on record | GOTS licence | Valid to | Verdict | Checked against | Brand site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burt's Bees Baby | GOTS OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 | GOTS-19237 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database, Label Check | burtsbeesbaby.com | |
| Frugi | GOTS | GOTS-11359 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | welovefrugi.com | |
| Hanna Andersson | GOTS | GOTS-10204 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | hannaandersson.com | |
| Little Green Radicals | GOTS | GOTS-11367 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | littlegreenradicals.com | |
| Makemake Organics | GOTS | GOTS-26390 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | makemakeorganics.com | |
| Mightly | GOTS | GOTS-10218 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | mightly.com | |
| Mini Rodini | GOTS | GOTS-32991 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | minirodini.com | |
| Monica + Andy | GOTS | GOTS-22579 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | monicaandandy.com | |
| Nature Baby | GOTS | GOTS-17245 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | naturebaby.co.nz | |
| Organic Zoo | GOTS | GOTS-28562 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | organic-zoo.com | |
| Pehr | GOTS | GOTS-20893 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | pehr.com | |
| Primary | GOTS | GOTS-20096 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | primary.com | |
| Sense Organics | GOTS | GOTS-15976 | Certificate on record | brand site, GOTS database | sense-organics.com |
Common questions about GOTS certification
What does GOTS certified actually mean?
That a named company passed an audit by an approved certification body and holds a scope certificate: a licence number, the operations it covers, the product categories, and an expiry date. It is a statement about a company and a scope, on a date — not a permanent property of a brand.
If a brand is not in the GOTS database, is its organic claim false?
No, and this directory never says so. A record can be missing because the certificate is held by a supplier rather than by the brand, because the holder's legal name differs from the shop-front name, or because the database is still being repopulated — a caveat the database itself publishes. Of the 28 brands checked, 13 were confirmed and the rest are unconfirmed, which is a statement about what could be found, not about what is true.
Can I trust the GOTS logo on a garment?
The label on a certified item carries the licence number of the certified entity, and that number can be looked up in the public database. A logo on a web page with no number behind it cannot be looked up by anyone, which is why this directory records whether a brand publishes its number at all.
How many of these brands publish a certificate number of their own?
Three of the 28 publish a number a reader can check: two print their GOTS licence number and one prints its certification body's client number. In all three the number matches the scheme's own record. Every other brand's certificate, where one was found, was found by searching the database rather than by reading the brand's site.
Buying from a confirmed brand
Disclosure: this section is where affiliate links to brands with a confirmed certificate will sit. No affiliate programme has been joined and no link below earns anything today — the placeholder is published so the disclosure is in place before the money is, not after. A brand will never be added to, moved up, or removed from this directory because of an affiliate relationship; placement here follows the certificate, and the certificate follows the public record.
What was read, and where
Every finding on this page cites the exact page it was read from for GOTS (a brand or certification body page), each with the date it was read beside it. Certificate numbers, scopes and expiry dates come from the scheme's own record, and each record carries the date it was read beside its link below; each claim comes from the brand's own site and carries its own read date on the card. Nothing is inferred from one to the other.
- https://burtsbeesbaby.com/pages/sustainability — Burt's Bees Baby — the brand's own sustainability page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO000325 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Hanna Andersson LLC (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO000342 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Mightly, Inc (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO001558 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Frugi Ltd (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO001566 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Hug UK Ltd T/A Little Green Radicals (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO002680 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Primary Kids inc. (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO009281 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Sense Organics Import & Trading GmbH (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO010800 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Nature Baby Limited (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO013623 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Ayablu Inc. DBA Burts Bees Baby (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO016897 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Pehr Designs (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO019293 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Monica & Andy, Inc. (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO028177 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Organic Zoo Ltd (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO028479 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Modn Made LLC (DBA Makemake Organics) (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://global-standards.org/suppliers/certified-suppliers/details?gtbid=SCO056621 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Mini Rodini Ab (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://littlegreenradicals.com/pages/awards-certifications — Little Green Radicals — the brand's own awards-and-certifications page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://makemakeorganics.com/pages/about-us — Makemake Organics — the brand's own About page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://mightly.com/pages/organic-cotton — Mightly — the brand's own organic-cotton page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://monicaandandy.com/pages/about-us — Monica + Andy — the brand's own About page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://naturebaby.co.nz/pages/our-fabric — Nature Baby — the brand's own Our Fabric page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://organic-zoo.com/pages/about — Organic Zoo — the brand's own Our Story page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://pehr.com/pages/sustainability — Pehr — the brand's own sustainability page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://www.hannaandersson.com/sustainability.html — Hanna Andersson — the brand's own sustainability page (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://www.minirodini.com/sustainability/certifications/ — Mini Rodini — the brand's own certifications page (fetched 2026-09-06)
- https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/detail/?number=23.HUS.80428 — OEKO-TEX Label Check — certificate 23.HUS.80428 (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://www.primary.com/blogs/using-our-words/why-buy-gots-organic-kids-clothes — Primary — the brand's own explainer on buying GOTS organic kids' clothes (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://www.sense-organics.com/ — Sense Organics — the brand's own home page, in German (“By staying close to the farmers we make sure the whole supply chain is GOTS-certified”) (fetched 2026-08-24)
- https://www.welovefrugi.com/pages/our-fabrics — Frugi — the brand's own Our Fabrics page (fetched 2026-08-24)
How a brand is matched to a record, and what “not found” does and does not mean, is set out on the methodology page.