OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100, and who holds one
OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 certifies that an article was tested for harmful substances. It is not an organic certificate. Of the 28 brands checked, 1 holds a certificate this directory could look up and confirm valid (the verdict was read on August 24, 2026).
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What OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 is
STANDARD 100 is a product-safety certificate. An accredited institute tests an article against a list of substances known to be harmful, and issues a certificate with a number, a product class and a description of exactly which article was tested. Product class I is the strictest, and it is the one that applies to articles for babies and small children.
It says nothing whatsoever about organic fibre. A garment of conventionally grown cotton can carry STANDARD 100; a garment of certified organic cotton need not. The two certificates answer different questions — “was this tested for harmful substances?” and “was this fibre grown and processed to an organic standard?” — and a brand that names one while a shopper is looking for the other has said something true and unhelpful.
Why so few of these claims can be checked
The scheme's public tool, Label Check, takes a certificate number. There is no way to ask it whether a brand is certified. So a claim can only be verified when the brand publishes its number — and exactly one of the 28 brands checked does. 1 of those numbers was checked and came back valid; that is what the count on this page means. Five more name OEKO-TEX on the page that was read without publishing any number, which leaves the reader nothing to look up.
The 1 brand whose published number was checked and found valid
| 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 |
Common questions about OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100
Is OEKO-TEX the same as organic?
No. STANDARD 100 certifies that an article was tested against a list of harmful substances. It sets no requirement at all about how the fibre was grown. A brand that answers “is this organic?” with “it is OEKO-TEX certified” has changed the subject.
What does product class I mean?
The strictest of the four classes, applied to articles for babies and small children — the limits assume an item may end up in a child's mouth. A certificate's class is printed on its record, and on this site beside every number that was checked.
Why can't you check every brand that claims OEKO-TEX?
Because Label Check is a lookup, not a search: it answers questions about a certificate NUMBER, and there is no public way to ask it about a brand name. A claim can only be checked when the brand publishes its number; 1 of the 28 brands checked has a number that was looked up and confirmed valid. The rest state the claim and leave nothing behind it that a shopper can verify.
Does a valid number prove the garment I am holding is certified?
It proves the number belongs to a current certificate of the stated class, covering the type of article the record describes. Label Check does not publish the holder's name, and a company may sell certified and uncertified items side by side, so the number confirms the certificate — not every product in the shop.
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 OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 (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=SCO013623 — GOTS Certified Suppliers Database — record for Ayablu Inc. DBA Burts Bees Baby (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)
How a brand is matched to a record, and what “not found” does and does not mean, is set out on the methodology page.