Di bulan Desember 2012 lalu, saya menghadiri sebuah forum diskusi yang diadakan oleh salah satu marketing research institution di Jakarta, yang mengambil tema tentang natural skincare. Di dalam diskusi itu, saya mempelajari beberapa point penting:
- Definisi natural dan organic skincare yang simpang siur. Apakah skin care yang mencantumkan claim “traditional”, “natural” dan “halal” itu pasti natural dan organic?
- Beauty products yang dianggap penting oleh peserta adalah di sekitar decorative products alias make up dan perfume, termasuk diantaranya: bedak, mascara dan lipstick.
- Rendahnya awareness tentang pentingnya menggunakan produk skincare yang natural dan organic
- Rendahnya awareness mengenai kaitan dan dampak social and environment dari penggunaan skincare products. Skin care dan beauty products simply dikaitkan dengan fashion trends only.
- Skincare products itu engga mereflesikan who we are.. jadi slogan I am what I wear ga berlaku buat skincare – kecuali untuk perfume.
Menurut Wikipedia, yang disebut natural skin care products adalah all skin care products yang menggunakan herbal atau botanicals ingredients. Definisi ini cukup luas cakupannya dan engga detail. Banyak skincare products diberi label “natural” hanya karena dari sekian banyak jenis ingredients yang dipakai, terdapat aloe vera atau shea butter. Sama kasusnya dengan label organic. Organic – according to Paula’s Choice, means all ingredients are plant-sourced ingredients that are cultivated without the use of synthetic chemicals, irradiation, or pesticides. If you find a product with “organic” label, please check carefully, is it really organic or not? Sometimes they only have few organic ingredients in the list.
An easy guide to buy natural and
organic product is to read the ingredients – it means we have to learn a lot about skin care
ingredients. I keep checking the ingredients via EWG website. Otherwise, we
can simply rely on the presence of organic certification from USDA Organic and/or
ECOCERT. Those two are two
accredited institutions that provide organic certification for food, farm, skin
care, textiles, etc. To have USDA Organic logo, a product should contain at
least 95% organic ingredients. Meanwhile ECOCERT will certain you that the
product will contain at least 50 to 60% - according to Green Organics Australia
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