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

Brands with a GOTS certificate found in the public record
BrandCertificate on recordGOTS licenceValid toVerdictChecked againstBrand site
Burt's Bees BabyGOTS OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100GOTS-19237Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS database, Label Checkburtsbeesbaby.com
FrugiGOTSGOTS-11359Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasewelovefrugi.com
Hanna AnderssonGOTSGOTS-10204Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasehannaandersson.com
Little Green RadicalsGOTSGOTS-11367Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databaselittlegreenradicals.com
Makemake OrganicsGOTSGOTS-26390Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasemakemakeorganics.com
MightlyGOTSGOTS-10218Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasemightly.com
Mini RodiniGOTSGOTS-32991Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databaseminirodini.com
Monica + AndyGOTSGOTS-22579Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasemonicaandandy.com
Nature BabyGOTSGOTS-17245Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasenaturebaby.co.nz
Organic ZooGOTSGOTS-28562Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databaseorganic-zoo.com
PehrGOTSGOTS-20893Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasepehr.com
PrimaryGOTSGOTS-20096Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databaseprimary.com
Sense OrganicsGOTSGOTS-15976Certificate on recordbrand site, GOTS databasesense-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.

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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.

How a brand is matched to a record, and what “not found” does and does not mean, is set out on the methodology page.