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The Soil Association has a set of Health & Beauty Care Standards
which have been based on those set for organic foods. Organic foods are strictly controlled under
UK, European and International legislation, however, the area of
organic personal care products and cosmetics is not yet
subject to the same or similar legislation.
We
use suppliers certified by the Soil Association wherever
possible to source the necessary raw materials and we use the
Soil Association guide lines to calculate the organic
percentages in our products.
Aromatika is planning to commence its application for organic
certification with the Soil Association as soon as possible,
although we wish to be clear that we are not yet certified.
The Soil Association Health and Beauty
Standards stipulate that a product must have over 95% of the total ingredients
included in the organic calculations obtained from
agricultural sources and they must be of certified organic origin
in order to be labelled as 'organic'. The rest of the ingredients must
be acceptable under the Soil Association standards and must be
approved. Examples of products which we hope will fall under
this category of certification will be Nourishing Balm, Baby Bottom
Balm, Baby Powder, our Lip Balms, Toners and Clay Masks.
The next category in the Health & Beauty
Standards includes cosmetics made
with between 70% and 95% of certified organically grown
ingredients. Subject to official certification, we consider most
of Aromatika's creams will fall into this category because some
of the ingredients necessary to make these products cannot yet
be sourced organically. Plant based emulsifying wax which is one
such ingredient.
Some products cannot meet the minimum requirement of 70%
certified organic ingredients and this is because their
ingredients are not yet available organically. Our facial scrubs
fall into this category as they exfoliant materials are not
available as organic.
The Soil Association organic percentage
calculations exclude water unless they are floral waters which
constitute more than 90% of the product, such as in Toners,
however Aromatika chooses to use Highland Spring Water in our
creams, which is water that has been filitered through land
certified by the Soil Association as organic in order to offer
you the best possible products. |
