Choosing between natural cosmetics and its unnatural counterpart, quite rightly, many stop at the first option. However, some of them are like those who are quite enough about the genuineness of the statements produced cosmetics, and those who really want to get not only beautiful words, but also a natural product.
First continue to use the advertised product, and the latter begin to look for what can rightly be called natural cosmetics. Such searches are not always efficacious, because not everyone knows what to look for. Want to buy a natural product there, but the information in order to find it is not enough.
But the output is still there.
If the label on the package, which broadcasts to the presence of cosmetic pearl extract or essence of shark fin can be nothing at all meaning the course of advertising, the posters who say that the cosmetic product has been certified and complies with international environmental standards - this is a weighty argument.
Uniform logo does not exist, because to date, engaged in the relevant eco-certification centers located in different parts of the world. Each of the centers of their requirements for cosmetic products, and therefore, seeing this or that logo on the packaging of cosmetic products, we can get complete information on how it meets the requirements and whether natural or organic it is.
We suggest to learn the basic of environmental certificates and, accordingly, with leading certificate authorities.
BDIH
It would be strange if one of the most authoritative certification centers are located in Germany, a country where all appreciate the order, clarity and conformity to accepted standards.
Federal association of industrial and commercial companies, which includes over three hundred manufacturers and distributors of products for various purposes, provides certification of cosmetic products, and according to the requirements set forth such products shall issue a certificate BDIH.
How, then, must meet the requirements of cosmetic products in order to obtain a certificate BDIH? Here is a list of them:
absence of synthetic dyes and perfumes;
absence of genetically modified components;
the absence of paraffin oil, refined products and silicone;
no components of animal origin;
no unnatural or unauthorized, identical with natural preservatives;
lack of ethoxylated substances.
To obtain a certificate BDIH manufacturers of cosmetic products must ensure cultivation and collection of plant material under controlled biological farms or in areas of natural habitat. All processes which material passes to the appropriate treatment should be subjected to strict biological control.
Experiments on animals at any stage of the production of cosmetics, as well as the use of raw materials from dead vertebrates - a taboo. For the production of cosmetics, the appropriate certificate BDIH, are allowed to use emulsifiers and surfactants (surface active agents), derived from fats, oils, beeswax, lecithin, lanolin, mono , Ligo and polysaccharides, proteins and lipoproteins. However, for the surfactants and emulsifiers above matter should be handled by the esterification, transesterification, hydrogenation or hydrolysis.
The replacement of synthetic preservatives have to come either natural preservatives or flavorings, such as salicylic acid and its salts, sorbic acid and its salts, benzoic acid and its salts, ethyl ether, benzyl alcohol.
Cosmetic products, has certified BDIH, is also in the following requirements:
it is not sterilized radiation exposure;
in its production environment is not polluted;
its packaging is environmentally friendly and amenable to secondary treatment.
BDIH - one of the most popular certifications. He was assigned to cosmetic products such brands as Avalon, Dr. Hauschka,
Dr. Scheller, Extracta, Lavera, Living Nature, Weleda and many others.
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