New Organic Certifications Continue to Blossom

New certification procedures for organic cosmetics are slowly popping up in North America, following the strict guidelines brought by the European marketplace.

Today, many products that claim to be "organic" are actually not at all. There has been a desire to create a standard to which all cosmetic products can be applied.

However, it looks like Canada is getting its own certification, from Certech Registration Inc. They currently seem to have one client, a Canadian brand called "eaurganic" that creates products in skincare, body lotion and spa treatments.

The standard set by Certech demands that "in order to be certified as natural under the IOS Cosmetics Standard, a minimum of 95% of the product must be of natural origin. In addition to this, products that obtain certification as organic must also use certified organic ingredients which have been grown, cultivated, and stored without the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, fumigants or other toxins." Furthermore, they must not be tested on animals and use recyclable packaging.

Having a standard to which all organic cosmetic products can be applied is a positive idea for consumers. I just hope that suddenly there won't be so many "official" organic certifications, that it becomes too difficult to tell one from another...