Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. government doesn’t regulate cosmetics and body care products for safety, long-term health impacts or environmental damage. Many synthetic chemicals and petroleum-based ingredients found in non-organic certified brands are harmful to people and the environment.
Consumers can avoid toxic ingredients by using USDA certified Organic Body Care and Cosmetics. The trouble is, while the USDA allows cosmetics and body care products meeting National Organic Program food and agricultural standards to be certified organic, it doesn’t police the rampant labeling fraud in the industry, where many brands make organic claims on their front label, but in fact are neither organic nor certified.
That’s why, as this Story of Stuff Project video, The Story of Cosmetics, points out: “On cosmetics labels, words like ‘herbal,’ ‘natural,’ even ‘organic’, have no legal definition. That means that anybody can put anything in a bottle and call it ‘natural.’ And they do!”
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