Not all organic personal care products are what they seem. Natural Health Ranger, Mike Adams, has brought us news from America about a protest which hopes to bring change to the way 'organic' personal care products are labelled,

The American based Organic Consumer's Association (OCA) held the protest outside the largest annual trade fair of the natural and organic products industry. The purpose? To expose dishonest or misleading 'organic' brands.

Members of the OCA picketed the Expo, mocking mislabelled 'organic' products with creative graphics, while distributing leaflets to educate the public about the lack of regulation in the organic personal care marketplace.

Coming clean over organic labelling

Through it's 'Coming Clean' campaign, the OCA is boycotting what it calls 'cheater brands' - products that use the term 'organic' and yet are not organic. Many of which are sold in the UK.

In America - as in Europe - the word 'organic' is not regulated on personal care products as it is with food. The OCA believes that unless a product is certified by a recognised third party, it should not be allowed to use the term 'organic' in the product label.

Due to this lax regulation, there are many personal care brands that use the word 'organic', and yet (unless certified), may contain a host of petrochemical compounds and potentially toxic additives.

The National Organic Standards Board in America is actively lobbying Government to formally regulate product labelling, to ensure that any use of the word 'organic' on a personal care product is backed up by third-party certification to recognised organic standards.

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