Beauty brands including Boots have been accused of misleading customers by falsely labelling products as organic.
Ingredients not certified as organic – and even linked to health problems – were found in a range of cosmetics apparently claiming to be all-natural.
The research for the Soil Association revealed High Street brands including The Organic Pharmacy, Dr Organic and Faith in Nature, were using the word on packaging for shampoos and sunscreens containing potentially harmful ingredients.
A survey for the food charity also revealed more than three quarters of women felt misled by the labelling on the products.
Professor Vyvyan Howard, of the centre for molecular bioscience at Ulster University, studied the contents of a range of beauty products marketed as organic and ranked them on how misleading they were.
He said: ‘I was shocked to find ingredients which could contain human carcinogens in products with labels which could misleadingly suggest that they might be organic.’ Full story...
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Ingredients not certified as organic – and even linked to health problems – were found in a range of cosmetics apparently claiming to be all-natural.
The research for the Soil Association revealed High Street brands including The Organic Pharmacy, Dr Organic and Faith in Nature, were using the word on packaging for shampoos and sunscreens containing potentially harmful ingredients.
A survey for the food charity also revealed more than three quarters of women felt misled by the labelling on the products.
Professor Vyvyan Howard, of the centre for molecular bioscience at Ulster University, studied the contents of a range of beauty products marketed as organic and ranked them on how misleading they were.
He said: ‘I was shocked to find ingredients which could contain human carcinogens in products with labels which could misleadingly suggest that they might be organic.’ Full story...
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