Organic Skincare

So many people have changed to organic eating habits and may be wondering about organic skincare solutions. Many of the cosmetics, perfumes and cleansers that are commonly used contain chemicals that are easily absorbed through skin, or through our lungs when we inhale the perfume. These chemicals then rapidly enter the bloodstream. Should this be a concern? Remember - if you put it on your skin, you are effectively drinking it!

Natural or Organic skin care is the care of the skin using ingredients such as herbs, roots, and flowers. They are combined with natural oils and waters. These ingredients do not include chemicals that may be harmful to your body or be the reason of certain unwanted side effects.

Visitors to Infertility Clinics will see, in very prominent positions, signs banning the wearing of perfume or aftershave. The chemicals that they contain are harmful to embryos. What we put on our bodies ends up in our bodies!

Organic skincare is an area of the organic movement that has made real progress in recent times, and there are now plenty of options out there. Beyond Organic Skincare brings you a range of organic face creams, organic body oils, organic serums and organic cleansers and an organic rescue salve. We have tried to give you the best of everything - just because this is what we want to use on our own skin!

Beyond Organic Skincare use high quality, certified organic products, ALL the ingredients are active. They are ALL beneficial and they all feed the skin. Our organic skincare products have all ingredients certified at source and All our products are fully certified Organic with the BDAA .

These organic skin care products are 100% natural and between 99 and 100% organic. To see a full list of our organic skincare ingredients see our ingredients page.

To see a list of ingredients we feel are best avoided (and needless to say we don't use), See our suspect ingredients page. Even some organic skincare products contain ingredients that to our mind are best avoided. Gentler alternatives to these artificial preservatives are available. Look at the labels (even on natural and organic skincare) and keep an eye open for some of the natural preservatives listed below:

  • grapefruit seed extract and phenoxyethanol
  • potassium sorbate
  • sorbic acid
  • tocopherol (vitamin E)
  • retinyl (vitamin A)
  • ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

Organic doesn't always mean what you think. An organic certification on an organic product label is the only way to guarantee the integrity of a product. The definition of certified organic is An independent third party guarantee of an organic claim. Always look for a logo that guarantees the product's integrity.

Certified organic skin care products must contain a minimum of 95% organic ingredients excluding water and salt/minerals, with a small allowance for natural, non-organic ingredients that must comply with very stringent processing criteria. However many organic skincare products are more than 70% water, because the water in the "organic skincare" constitutes 70+ percent of the overall product, the manufacturer is allowed to claim that the product is 73% organic at the top of the label.

Beyond Organic Skincare products have a maximum of 18% water in them; (and this is organic floral water). The organic oils, organic serums and organic cleansers contain no water at all.
There are two definitions of organic:

Organic chemistry is concerned with substances that contain carbon. Carbon is present in all living things. Legally, the cosmetics industry is allowed to label any product that contains carbon as "organic." So if it contains petrol, it is organic. Methylparaben is derived from petrochemicals, which are derived from crude oil, which is derived from living matter. It is a widely used preservative in organic skin care products such as organic body creams, body wash and deodorants: So effectively methylparaben can legally be labelled as organic. We have even spotted it in Baby Oils! Now, it is worth noting that a recent study reported traces of methylparaben in human breast cancer tumours.

The second definition of organic is, The sustainable system of agriculture that uses natural substances & methods to create healthy nutrient rich and fertile soils. If you removed the water, the actual organic content of those fancy herbal infusions would probably be less than 0.05% of the total product.

The only sure way is to look for "certified" organic skincare and become a bit of an ingredient detective!