Ingredients & the Sin of Omission

October 31, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 There are a few ingredients of concern that keep popping up on “clean“ personal care labels that […]

Organic Documents for Organic Ingredients – MiniBlog

April 1, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Do you have the organic certificate for each of the organic ingredients you call out on your ingredients list? Think about it – a label is a promise to a consumer. If you have not verified that you have a duly certified product, you could be in trouble and that would be a problem for […]

“Natural” Documents – MiniBlog

April 1, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Have you defined what NATURAL means to you? If you use the term “natural” to describe your ingredients or your finished products you may want to consider writing a definition of “natural” on your web site. First, let’s make clear that a synthetic, in my world, means a human has made a new molecule. What? […]

My Product is Certified Natural – Isn’t It “All Natural”?

April 1, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

The problem with “All Natural” or “100% Natural” claims There is some confusion about the claim “All Natural” or “100% Natural” or even just “natural” by companies that are certified to a “Natural” standard. This is how it works: both the natural and the organic cosmetic standards allow the use of synthetics (human made molecules), […]

Mislabeling: The FDA and the The No-No Words

February 13, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

A lot of cosmetic brands seem to have a “No-No List” of ingredients. I think it is time for a list of “No-No” words – because, you know, FDA and “mislabeling”. The basic thing you need to keep in mind is that unless you are selling a registered, approved DRUG, you may not any use […]

3 Things to Know about Ingredient Quality

November 8, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

You probably use a number of ingredient suppliers… 1 – When buying organic ingredients, always ask for a Specification from the supplier. This describes the physical and chemical characteristics of what you bought. Like: Color, Aroma, Form (liquid, solid, etc.), pH, and so on. 2 – Okay – you just received the ingredient […]

Choose Your Cosmetic Claims Carefully

October 7, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Is Your Product “Organic”, “Natural”, or “100% Anything”? In a quick Google search there were at least 12 cosmetic companies involved in class action law suits over the past 9 months for using the word “natural” to describe a cosmetic or some aspect of a cosmetic. There are a number of others law suits based […]

Ingredient Transparency and Quality for Your Products?

September 2, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Getting Transparent About Your Ingredients We only sell organic and sustainable ingredients. It seems pretty dumb to do anything else (hello Hurricane Harvey, Irma, and the gang) – agriculture adds about 50% of all un-sequestered carbon to the atmosphere. Organic agriculture helps solve that problem. We want you to have full transparency about […]

What We Knew All Along: Sperm Count is the Canary in the Coal Mine

August 14, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

When any population shows a marked decrease in reproductive health, it is serious. Today we are talking about “humans”. In an opinion piece quietly published in the NY Times by Evan Hepler-Smith, he pointed to a study that indicates sperm count for men in the US, the EU, and Australia/New Zealand has dropped since the […]

Sustainability Rant #2 – July 31, 2017

July 31, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

What does “sustainability” mean? For the past 20 or so years international companies have been talking about their “Sustainability Programs”. We supply a couple of the international cosmetic companies. Recently one of them did a Sustainability Survey and our “sustainability” was evaluated and rated in the 70th percentile. This by a company that uses 4 […]