FAQs

WHY ORGANIC?

Beautiful skin is healthy skin. The skin is the largest organ in your body and absorbs a vast amount of what you put on it which could impact on your health. Research has shown that up to 60% of what we apply to our skin may be absorbed into the bloodstream.

So we should not only be concerned about the food that we eat then but also about what we put on our skin and the ingredients that go in to our cosmetics and toiletries. Many of the ingredients in conventional health and beauty contain harmful and toxic ingredients which are not clearly labelled.

For more details on Harmful Ingredients please go to our Ingredientspage.

ORGANIC - what does it mean?

Something that has been grown or raised without the routine use of pesticides, insecticides and herbicides. Organic certification bodies monitor and inspect production methods, and audit the supply chain to ensure that products that claim to be organic genuinely are. This is regulated by European Law, but current legal standards only apply to food and farming. For non food products suppliers there is no legal requirement to get organic certification.

ORGANIC Cerfification Bodies - who are they?

The Organic Trust in Ireland currently does not certify non food products. However several other organic associations in Europe do and here are a few:

The UK Soil Association - the most well known organic certification body in the UK

EcoCert - certifies organic cosmetics in Europe

BDIH - in Germany and operates a standard of “Controlled Natural Cosmetics” which exerts very strict control over the ingredients allowed into cosmetic products to make sure that they deserve to be called natural.

please see our Links page for useful websites for more information.

Sunscreens

According to studies undertaken by the University of Zurich's Institute of Pharmacology and toxicology, several chemical ingredients used in sunscreens imitate the action of the hormone, oestrogen. Tests carried out on animals and in the concentrations used by humans, found that these sun-blocks caused uterine cancer in rats and one of them casued the uterine growth rate to double in immature females. Oestrongenic chemicals are also suspected of contributing to infertility in men and women.