My product contains only organic or plant-based ingredients, but still has a high hazard or data gap score in Skin Deep. Aren organic or plant-based products better?
EWG supports organic farming, pesticide use reduction, and other practices that reduce risks to health and the environment. But even plant-based ingredients can be biologically active (look at poison ivy and the many plant-derived pharmaceuticals on the market for examples), and should be required to meet the same safety standards in cosmetics as ingredients derived from petroleum, mines, or animal products. It is often difficult for us to identify which ingredients in products are truly organic, since “organic” is a generally marketing term used by many in the cosmetic industry to imply that the product is natural. However, we did note distinctions where possible – you can search for products that are labeled as containing organically grown ingredients from our “Advanced Search” http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/search.php.
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