Eligible and ineligible products
Eligible products are described under each of our Categories.
They should be consumable preparations — either used around the home for cleaning or aesthetics (e.g. detergents, softeners, polishes) or ambience (e.g. candles, soy melts, room fragrance), or on the body for wellbeing purposes (e.g. non-medicinal pain relief, aromatherapeutic massage / application, insect protection, sun care, oral health etc), or for pet grooming and care (e.g. dog shampoos, paw balms).
NB. Cosmetics and toiletries are not eligible, with the exceptions of sun-care products and oral care products. Other cosmetic products may be entered into our sibling award, the Free From Skincare Awards.
Tonics, supplements or foods for oral consumption are not eligible, although some may be eligible for our sibling award, the Free From Food Awards.
Lifestyle tools and gadgets used around the home, and for leisure and sport, are not eligible. Neither are furnishings, materials, electricals, etc.
Please contact us if you have any query about product eligibility.
Free From Requirements
All entries must be free from at least one of the following ingredient groups:
* free from animal ingredients (i.e. vegan), or
* free from fragrances, or
* free from artificial ingredients, or
* free from the top 14 food allergens
Credit will also be given to brands which are free from more than one of the above groups, and which tick additional free from ‘boxes’ that many consumers prefer or require — such as alcohol free, palm free, plastic free, petroleum-derivative free, colouring-free and others.
Excluded Ingredients
Products containing any of the following ingredients are not eligible:
* Artificial fragrances (unless free of all declarable fragrance allergens);
* Formaldehyde-releasing preservatives (eg imidazolidinyl urea, diazolidinyl urea, quaternium-15);
* Any isothiazolinone preservative — e.g. methylisothiazolinone (MI), methylchloroisothiazolinone (MCI), benzisothiazolinone (BIT) or octylisothiazolinone (OIT);
* Peanut / peanut-derived ingredients;
* Sodium lauryl / laureth sulphate (SLS/SLES).
Availability
All products entered must be available for purchase by the closing dates of the Awards.
Products do not need to be new launches — they can be new or old.
Products entered into the Free From Living Awards must be available in the UK or Ireland, or by online order from stores or distributors based in either of those two nations.
Please Note: Products available to British and Irish consumers exclusively via overseas shipping from outside the UK and Ireland are not eligible.