There are lots of amazing, holistic reasons for choosing organic skincare products. The reasons range from enthusiastic to reduce the number of chemicals on your skin, for your health, skin sensitivity or based on personal principals.
The issue facing most consumers enthusiastic to buy genuine organic skincare products, than those making claims, is that a standard for the certification and labelling of organic skincare products is not available.
Currently in Australia, the only organic certification available for skin care products is a general food standard. This requires 95% of all ingredients, other than the water part, to be organically certified. Water usually makes up to 70% of total ingredients in lots of skincare creams. Therefore 95% of the remaining 30% of ingredients require to be organically certified.
Only a few Australian products have been certified to these very strict and sometimes impractical rules for food standards. It’s been argued by some manufacturers, that to accomplish the 95% certified rating is counter productive to producing an effective skin product.
Currently unrecognised are lots of skincare products with over 50% organic ingredients which cannot be certified, although they have been manufactured by passionate organic supporters to the highest organic and natural principles.