We at Paul Penders share a concern with you about the regulations used by few cosmetic certification boards. Not all standards of these certification boards make sense to us, while our main concern is that cosmetic products should be for 100% organic, or it is not be an organic product at all. A cosmetic should not be called organic when non-organic additives are added such as emulsifiers, colors, etc.

Preservatives too - unless organic alcohol at almost 20% is used. (in order to preserve a product for 2 - 3 years because only then it will act as a full-spectrum preservative.) But is it not harmful to add 20% strength alcohol to our face? And also, it can simply not be used in all shampoo, skin care and body care formulations.

Organic certification for food makes perfect sense. For cosmetics it is tricky business and often a cosmetic brand use an organic certificate especially to extra promote their products. We at Paul Penders also don't like the many thousands of dollars needed to pay to privately owned certification boards in order to get the rights to use their logos.

 

We believe it is better to give the FDA more power on strict control on what ingredients are allowed in cosmetics in order to protect our health and for consumers to make intelligent decisions.

Don't fall victim of clever organic product marketers but support the FDA to enforce safe cosmetic products. See the message below.