Oil Price Changes and … Why?
The prices for coconut oil and cocoa butter have recently been all over the map. Cocoa products essentially doubled and coconut oil increased about...
The Cosmetic Ingredient Bubble Needs to Burst
We all (as in every industry in the world) need to get out of our business silos and incorporate climate realities into our worlds. In the cosmetic...
Sin of Omission
I met with a longtime colleague last week. She is someone who is very careful about the ingredients she allows in her products. We had not seen eac...
Climate Crisis
What is Ethical Sourcing for the Cosmetic Industry?
Climate crisis: we are the problem, and we are the solution. How can we, the cosmetic indust...
Transparency?
What exactly does “transparency” mean and what is its value?
It means knowing where your ingredients come from and who grows & processes the...
Earth Day: Seed and Soil
I recently read a “transparency plan” that caused me to stop and reflect. While the brand was able to call out the location from which each ingredi...
Are essential oils sustainable?
Let’s be clear. This blog is not going to look at safety of essential oils (EOs) except to say, the world seems pretty messed up about “safety” a...
The Future Cost of Beauty
I am astonished by the inability of some people to connect the dots. “Which dots?” you may ask. The dots that connect the massive three weeks of st...
"Natural" is in fact SUSTAINABLE
Lately I’ve heard that “natural” is not “sustainable”. Let’s explore a few things.
A very little history…
Essential and natural oils have been u...
How do you validate ingredient claims?
I once asked an FDA inspector what her basic rule was for ingredient claims and she said, “tell the truth”. That means, you need to know what th...
Sustainable? I call BS.
Alright folks. I’ve had it. We’ve been promoting and selling organic ingredients into the cosmetic space for 22 years and now there are multiple co...
What is so wrong with "Clean Beauty"?
This is a very personal rant, it is based on the reason Oh, Oh Organic exists and why we do what we do.
There is increasing push back on the te...