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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.
We use ingredients which are certified as
organic wherever possible and we use the Soil Association guide lines
in formulating our products, although we wish to be clear that
we are not certified ourselves, primarily due to the cost.
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 our Rose Face Oil, Lemon
Nail & Cuticle Conditioner, 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 the 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 prefers to use spring water in our creams and
products, rather than purified or distilled water which is inert
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