Are natural ingredients safer than chemical ones?
Actually, everything is a chemical – whether it’s natural or man-made. Often natural ingredients are no different in chemical composition from synthetic ones. In fact, a synthetic ingredient that mimics a natural one can sometimes provide a purer, more stable ingredient, which gives a product a longer usable life. Unilever’s position is that we subject natural ingredients to the same rigorous safety and sustainability standards that we apply to synthetic ones. We do not justify the safety of an ingredient just because it is of natural extract.
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