The Food and Drug Administration regulates personal care products, baby care products and cosmetics, but it doesn’t require long-term safety studies or pre-market testing for most ingredients. It’s the USDA that oversees organic food and other products. For a personal care product to be certified organic,it must be an agricultural product, meaning that all the ingredients (other than water and salt) must be plant-based. Each ingredient must meet USDA’s standards for organic production, handling, processing and labeling. Once the ingredients are certified, the finished products are eligible for the same four organic labeling categories as food products. Organic personal care products and cosmetics have been found to be safer for you and your kids than the alternatives. You can check out the Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Database for more information on safe cosmetics and organic options. onlyorganic.org/go-organic-with-non-food-products/
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:33:30 +0000
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