How Old Will You Be in 2040?
When major corporations issue press releases about their “Sustainability” programs and then talk about how much energy they saved using different...
Alert: New Potential Laws Governing Cosmetics!
There are 3 updates to the cosmetic laws that are competing their way through our Federal system. They reportedly share (I have read 2 out of the 3...
Happy Valentine’s Day – Kiss Kiss!
Yesterday morning the Washington Post reported recent FDA findings on lead in lipstick for 400 lipsticks. (See below for link). I was very concerne...
Whole Panic! Will they empty the shelves?
This week I have received numerous calls asking: “What can I do to get certified for (you pick the question)…the Whole Foods List…the Whole Foods...
How Ridiculous is This?
It has been 11 years since I started working on the concept of certified “organic” cosmetics. In Europe they have multiple standards and literally ...
What Is RBD Oil?
RBD or RBDW is “Refined, bleached and deodorized” and the “W” is “winterized”. Is that allowed for “organic” certified? Let’s look at the process o...
What is a “Safe” Cosmetic?
In 2000 (OMG, the Dark Ages!) I first started to participate in various industry discussions hoping to define “organic cosmetics”. What I heard was...
Why The Proposed Safe Cosmetic Act of 2010 Won’t Work
The proposed “Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010” (SCA 2010) won’t work. Yep, really, it will not work even though the intent, consumer protection, is a gr...
Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 (Not)
Oh spare me. The Environmental Working Group should know better than to focus on cosmetics using the “Cosmetic Safety Act of 2010”: “safety” concer...
A Whole Headache
Whole Foods may want to re-think the timeline and method of their mandated organic certification policy for personal care products. The concept is ...
SELLING WITH THE CURRENT SEXIEST WORD
Let’s face it, “organic” is a sexy word for selling products these days. It may be food, dry cleaning, or lipstick; if it says “organic”, people ar...