Do we really know what goes into organic skincare products?
Live MintOrganic skincare is the hottest new trend cutting through the noise of the skincare market in India. Brands like Disguise Cosmetics, Ras Luxury Oils, Biotique, Himalaya Herbals, Kama Skincare, Khadi Essentials, Mom & Company, Plum Goodness, Jovees, Indus Valley, Forest Essentials and many many more cater to the ever-growing conscious Indian consumer who wants to feed their family organic food, buy naturally made personal products and overall, strive towards a mindful lifestyle. And since plant-based or organic products are not tested on animals, it’s harder to determine what a user might react like, without patch tests. Meeting with a dermatologist, using old-school, regulated chemicals is what has helped my skin get back to some kind of normalcy.” In India, the fastest growing consumer market in the world, the meteoric demand of the organic skincare coupled with lax legal obligations can lead to a lack of responsibility on the company’s part to correctly label their products. While there is a difference between a product labelled organic or natural, since organic products claim to use no chemicals whatsoever, it’s hard to verify due to the lack of autonomous Indian bodies, like the FDA in America, that can confirm this.