Cosmos Skincare
Organic Skincare Products
About COSMOS organic standards
The COSMOS organic standard will start to be initiated by the Soil Association in the UK from September 2009. There is a five year transition period during which Soil Association licencees can reformulate their products to meet COSMOS standards. All relevant UK Soil Association products must also be COSMOS standard by December 2014.Some of the main features of the new standard are:
- the minimum standard for organic content of the whole product is 20% (not including water) with exceptions for water based products
- there will be a new calculation of extracts
- a positive list of ingredients of mineral origin
- chemically processed agro-ingredients must follow green chemistry principles and can only be produced using approved chemical reactions
- phenoxyethanol is not permitted (although this is under review)
- organic ingredients must be used if they are available
The COSMOS organic standard has been created by an alliance of 6 of Europe's leading organic certifiers
The Soil Association - UK
BDIH - Germany
Cosmebio - France
Ecocert - France
ICEA - Italy
Ecogarantie - Belgium
