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Dr.Hauschka has the BDIH logo on its packaging,
which means that Dr.Hauschka products are certified
natural. The BDIH is a German Trade Federation, which is responsible
for health care, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.
What is the criteria that was decided?
The criteria for defining natural includes the following:
- No GM or irradiation
- No animal testing
- Wide use of plant ingredients
- Use of renewable, biodegradable materials
- Limited technical processing methods
- No synthetic fragrances or colours
- Only natural preservatives Permitted
Other guidelines are also applied:
- Social responsibility and ecological soundness (for processing
and packaging)
- Transparency where ingredient labelling is concerned
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So what does ‘certified natural' actually
mean?
Holistic health has had a huge impact on the cosmetics
industry, with many companies following the trend and
offering products which they call natural. But there
was no definition of what ‘natural' meant.
Defining the term therefore became crucial, so back
in 1996, leading manufacturers of natural skin care
brands got together to work out some criteria, which
would help define ‘natural' cosmetics and to create
a standard by which a product could be judged.
Dr.Hauschka Skin Care was one of the
companies involved in developing the comprehensive guidelines
now set out. Yes it is inevitable that the companies
who decided on the criteria will of course award their
own products the ‘Certified Natural' mark, but a completely
independent control company tests all the products seeking
to be identified as genuinely natural, for their composition
and also for production methods and it awards the ‘Certified
Natural Cosmetic' mark accordingly, to individual products,
which conform to the strict criteria as set out by the
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