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Natural Shampoo ingredients
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Apparently, they’ve confused the rules for soap with the rules for cosmetics. It is confusing, and especially when they are convinced they’re right because the read a chapter of some pseudo-expert’s book, impossible to correctly advise folks.
It’s hard to tell what will happen with this regime - will the FDA regulations be enforced strictly so that the competition for the big guys is reduced, or will the FDA be decimated by budget cuts? Only time will tell.
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My take on that is that I use strict INCI notation and the FDA has never blinked at one of my labels. I see that controversy all the time.
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Generally, the FDA responds to complaints that are filed as opposed to randomly scouring the Ingredient Labels of products … they simply don’t have the staff to do that.
That’s why you see so many product labels that do not comply with FDA labelling requirements.
Take a look at all of the “Organic Sunless Spray Tan” products out there. HINT: It is virtually impossible to create an Organic Sunless Spray Tan and there is no such thing as Organic Certified Dihydroxyacetone. Yet, the claims of Organic are pervasive. That’s just one example.
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True, the FDA primarily responds to complaints these days - but do you really want to give your competitors that much potential leverage over you?
Also, “certified organic” skincare is regulated by the FDA, the USDA, and the third-party certifiers. The certifiers are particularly aggressive about filing lawsuits against any non-certified product fraudulently claiming “organic” status, since they are protecting their livelihood. I think those products are living on borrowed time.
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No, you don’t, but if you don’t file a complaint with the FDA, your competitors may go years with improperly labelled products before anything is done by the FDA.
The use of the term Organic in the sunless spray tan market is rampant. And, not one of these products contain a USDA Organic Certification seal and not a one of them complies with UDSA Organic requirements regarding allowed ingredients. Yet, they’re all over the marketplace.
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