
Can sunless tanners be organic? Episode 226
The Beauty Brains
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Do You Know What Organic Means?
The term organic does not officially apply to cosmetics, at least as far as the fda is concerned. The us Department of agriculture created organic standards for food, and then some people petitioned them about being applying to cosmetics. So if you want to say that your cosmetic ingredient or your cosmetic product is certified organic, you have to adhere... To the us T a organic standards. But it's actually quite hard to do that. There is no organic dihydroxy acitone. Some manufacturers are claiming that their products are ecocert certified organic. That doesn't exist either. In the market place, o selling products, you use the term organic. We don't use what chemists say
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