Chocolate and Love
Good. Shows the people who make its products are paid and treated fairly.
Last researched 2 November 2026 · 7 sources
Small family-run chocolate brand making organic bars.
Chocolate and Love gets its cocoa from four countries, including Panama and Peru.
Also worth knowing
Its cocoa is Fairtrade certified, which comes with a minimum price for farmers and audits for child and forced labour.
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Why it's graded Good
- Met: Meets all 6 Good requirements.
- Met: No red flags.
| Star | Awarded for | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Pays above a living wage | Not earned | |
| Gives workers a real voice | Not earned | |
| Open supply chain | Not earned | |
| Finds and fixes problems, or invests in communities | Not earned |
3 stars for the first way it goes above and beyond, and one more for each further way, up to 6. About stars
Good requirements 6 of 6
- Met: Pays a living wage, or holds a strong fair-pay certificationLiving wage: strong fair-pay scheme (Fairtrade)
- Met: Respects worker rights
- Met: Supply chain independently audited or certified, or at least 80% made in countries with strong labour standards
- Met: No child or forced labour findings or links
- Met: Names the factories or farms that make its products, or is fully certified by a scheme that holds and audits that listFully certified by Fairtrade, which holds and audits the list of farms. Chocolate and Love doesn't publish its own.
- Met: Finds and fixes child labour on cocoa farms (Fairtrade, Fair for Life or its own published monitoring), and traces other high-risk ingredients (hazelnuts) where they're a major part of its rangeOnly in a few products: hazelnuts
Red flags 0
None found.
Accreditations 2
Estimates for its products
Our rules applied to one kind of product at a time, using Chocolate and Love's evidence and, where it has product lines, that line's countries. They're estimates: we don't know which factory made any single item.
Chocolate: Good, the same as Chocolate and Love overall, because nothing we know differs between them.
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Where its cocoa is grown
Chocolate and Love is fully certified by Fairtrade, which holds and audits its list of farms.
| Country | Worker rights | Legal minimum wage | Forced labour risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panama | No guarantee of rights | Below a living wage | Moderate |
| Peru | Systematic violations | Well below a living wage | Moderate |
| Dominican Republic | Strong protections | Well below a living wage | Moderate |
| Madagascar | Systematic violations | Well below a living wage | Moderate |
Evidence
What we found
- Passes the raw-material check for chocolate: finds and fixes child labour on cocoa farms (Fairtrade, Fair for Life or its own published monitoring).
- Uses hazelnuts in only a few products and doesn't show where they come from. That doesn't count against it for Good, but the "Open supply chain" star needs all of them traced, certified or upcycled.
Research notes Chocolate and Love's bars are made in Switzerland by an unnamed manufacturer from organic cocoa bought from Fairtrade cooperatives in Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Madagascar, with cane sugar from Paraguay and Costa Rica; volumes by country are not published. Only one cooperative (Fundopo, Dominican Republic) is named. Labels carry Fairtrade claims and EU organic certification (bio.inspecta, CH-BIO-006). It says it uses no palm oil. One milk bar contains caramelised hazelnuts, with no origin given. It publishes no child labour monitoring, farmgate prices or living income data.
What independent sources say
| Source | Result | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Fairtrade (incl. FLOCERT and Fairtrade ANZ) | Certified | Retail listings show the bars carry Fairtrade claims, with cocoa, sugar and vanilla traded under Fairtrade Standards; the brand is not on Fairtrade ANZ's chocolate brand finder. View |
| US Department of Labor goods lists | Unclear | Cocoa from Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Madagascar is not on the US child or forced labour goods list, but sugarcane from Paraguay, one of its sugar origins, is listed for child labour. View |
| UK Modern Slavery Statement Registry | Not covered | No modern slavery statement was found; the company is likely below the UK reporting threshold. View |
| Business & Human Rights Resource Centre | Not listed | No labour allegations involving Chocolate and Love were identified. View |
Sources and actions
Sources 7
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- US DOL: List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor (sugarcane) · search the archive · Sugarcane from Paraguay listed for child labour; Costa Rica not listed.
- Ocado: Chocolate and Love Panama 80% Dark Chocolate · search the archive · Fairtrade cocoa, sugar and vanilla; EU Organic CH-BIO-006; made in Switzerland for Chocolate and Love Ltd, Perth, UK.
Published by Chocolate and Love or its owner
- Chocolate and Love: Our partners · search the archive · Cacao sourced directly from Fairtrade certified cooperatives in Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Madagascar.
- Chocolate and Love: How our chocolate is made · search the archive · Bars made in Switzerland; names Fundopo cooperative; cane sugar from Paraguay and Costa Rica.
- Chocolate and Love: Palm oil policy · search the archive · No palm oil used as an ingredient in any of its chocolate products.
- Chocolate and Love: A passion story · search the archive · Family-run business founded in 2010 by Richard and Birgitte O'Connor; stocked in 35 countries; made in Switzerland.
- Chocolate and Love product catalogue · search the archive · Hazelnuts: minor use, untraced. One Milk 50% bar with caramelised hazelnuts among about 11 flavours; no hazelnut origin given.
Company details
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
- Last researched
- 2 November 2026
- Cite this page
- Labour Lens, "Is Chocolate and Love ethical? Labour rating", https://www.labourlens.net/brand/chocolate-and-love, last researched 2 November 2026, accessed [date].
- Method
- Researched with AI assistance against published rules. How we check · What Good means
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