Are natural and organic skincare products more expensive?
While natural and organic skincare products can be more expensive for a number of reasons, Belletaré product pricing is competitive with its conventional luxury high-performance skincare counterparts even though formulating high-performance skincare with natural and organic ingredients is extra challenging and costly. Natural and organic ingredient suppliers’ pricing can be affected by weather, disease, demand, land values, and labor among other things. Also, there are limited natural and organic alternatives for the some traditional chemical ingredients, like the controversial and potentially harmful paraben preservatives. For instance, some plant-based preservative systems are very effective but have strong herbal odors that cannot be overcome by adding essential oils, rendering them unacceptable for a luxury product. That may mean more experimenting and testing to find the right combination of natural preservatives that can perform at a level acceptable in a luxury product. Further,
