AHAVA controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2012
Product-origin labeling disputes
Activists and officials in South Africa challenged descriptions that presented AHAVA goods as products of Israel rather than goods made in an Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories. New labeling rules were subsequently discussed and announced.
2012
European research partnership criticism
A group of academics and cultural figures criticized the British Natural History Museum for participating in an EU-funded research program involving AHAVA. The museum responded that AHAVA had been selected from a European Commission-approved list and that it would not participate in academic or educational boycotts.
2011
London store protests and retail withdrawal
Repeated demonstrations contributed to the closure of AHAVA's London store, while John Lewis said it had stopped stocking the brand. The disputes focused on settlement production, worker and community concerns, and the political status of the company's operations.
2010
West Bank factory and Dead Sea resource controversy
Human-rights organizations and boycott activists alleged that AHAVA's factory at Mitzpe Shalem operated in an Israeli settlement and that the company commercially extracted mud from the occupied portion of the Dead Sea shoreline. AHAVA maintained that its facility was legal and that its raw materials came from the Israeli side.