NATURAL COSMETIC NEWSNatural Cosmetic & Personal Care News & Articles
World’s Largest Natural & Organic Food Retailer to Require Third-Party Certification of “Organic” Personal Care Products & Cosmetics
Whole Foods Market, a retailer of natural and organic products with more than 270 stores worldwide, is now requiring third-party certification on all personal care products and cosmetics making “organic” claims sold in the U.S.
Whole Foods Market is implementing new companywide standards to ensure that claims on product labels are accurate. All suppliers must be [...]
International Natural and Organic Cosmetic Standards Harmonize
Today, cosmetic companies around the world seek to describe their products as organic, yet there is no international certification standard to back their claims. But a big step in the right direction was taken last month with the creation of a not-for-profit international association. By the end of 2014 Cosmos, or the COSMetic Organic Standard, [...]
Japan’s Largest Cosmetic Manufacturer Aquires Bare Escentuals
The market leading mineral makeup Bare Escentuals has accepted a buyout offer by Shiseido of Japan for $1.7 billion. The acquisition of Bare Escentuals will allow Shisedio, Japan’s largest cosmetic manufacturer, to utilize their already existing global reach and expand the mineiral-based cosmetic portfolio.
The Bare Escentuals’ brand will remain the same and will immediately [...]
UK Cosmetic Market Spurred by Natural Ingredients & Functional Cosmetics
As consumers continually seek natural ways to look and feel younger, manufacturers are also doing the same. Biotivia, a large UK based natural skincare supplier, is capitalizing on new consumer demands for natural ingredients, and has announced a new natural anti aging skin cream to their line of natural skincare products.
Traditionally, chemical-based cosmetics have [...]
Misleading “Natural” Claims
More than 98% of supposedly “natural” products in the US are making potentially false or misleading claims, according to a study performed by TerraChoice, an environmental consulting firm.
The study of nearly 4,000 consumer products discovered unverifiable information and blatant lies regarding their claim to be 100% natural, all natural, organic, or otherwise environmental friendly.
The rise [...]
How Healthy is Your Makeup?
It seems that the everyday consumer plays into the hand of the tactful marketers and does not look at the ingredients contained in their products. And when a product claims to be healthy, or provide a health benefit, whether it be for you skin, hair, etc, it is all the more reason to closely [...]
Natural Cosmetics in Your Pantry
More and more we hear stories about people making their own natural cosmetics from easily accessible, cheap products. So, we decided to prepare a list of natural cosmetic ingredients that you may find in your pantry and the potential benefits they may provide.
Apples
Not many know this, but apples have a lot of vitamin C, which [...]
‘Nu Natural’ & ‘Mood Enhancing’ Cosmetics Predicted to Dominate the Market in 2010
The cosmetics industry faced a challenging and difficult year in 2009. Fueled by economic crisis, decreased consumer confidence, and the push for innovation and development of organic and environmentally friendly products, beauty brands were and will continue to be forced to find more innovative ways to attract new customers and keep their old ones. As [...]
Wearing Cosmetics that are Highly Nutritional
Everywhere you look products are being labeled certified organic and 100% natural. But as we have seen and reviewed on this Web site, not all natural cosmetics are safe or in fact actually natural. So, lets go one step further and examine natural cosmetics that are not only safe, but are also nutritional.
Nutritional [...]
5 Dangerous Natural Cosmetic Ingredients
To the trustworthy, non-concerning consumer, “natural” has a direct association with safe. Although ingredients may be natural, that does not mean they are safe. In order to get to the bottom of this, and to find out which ingredients are safe, and which pose a certain health risk, I reviewed the book, “Volume 1 of [...]
