Deodorant + bio: There does not exist deodorant bio which deserves this name
The more required the products with the mention “bio” are, the more temptation to put powder at the eyes of the consumers is large. At least, does there exist among the certified deodorants (Ecocert/Cosmebio certification or BDIH) of the deodorants bio? My answer is not because there exist only products which contain raw materials resulting from the organic farming.
Where is the difference? Why a product which contains raw materials resulting from the organic farming is not at the same time a product bio? Let us take an explicit example: according to my comprehension of the language a cotton sweater can only be one cotton sweater if it is entirely composed of cotton, or at least mainly. It is not thus if it is only made up for example of 5% or 10% of cotton, at this time it is not a question according to my comprehension of a cotton sweater. According to this logic, all the certified deodorants Ecocert/Cosmebio or BDIH are natural products `' because they exclusively contain natural ingredients or of natural origin. Part of these ingredients is resulting from the organic farming. In term of total volume, it is acted in fact of the minority. The consumer can in general note by itself which ingredients they are because all the manufacturers (except Dr. Hauschka) mark them of an asterisk. The deodorant Dr. Hauschka contains however also biological ingredients because the schedule of conditions BDIH requires for example that the sage extract, when it is employed, be resulting from the organic farming. It is the same for wax of jojoba contained in the deodorant Dr. Hauschka.
When one gets busy to compare the various deodorants as for their components bio, one notices that for two certifications (Ecocert/Cosmebio + BDIH) only certain ingredients result from the organic farming. They are components like essential oils, the extracts of plants, alcohols bio. That it is not absolutely necessary of part of the ingredients is due to the fact that certain components like emulsifiers for example are as well as possible of natural origin. There do not exist quite simply emulsifiers bio. This is also worth for other components (of which water), they represent the major part of the majority of the products. What brings us to the great subject of water.
Ecocert/Cosmebio certification proposes, unlike certification BDIH, a characteristic: water can, in the form of medicated water, to become an ingredient bio. Thus of many deodorants bio certified by Ecocert/Cosmebio contain a medicated water bio representing the major part of the aqueous phase. Without such a medicated water bio the minimal quantity of ingredients bio necessary of at least xx percent of the finished product would in general not be reached. |
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Is the water of camomile or tree with the capable to justify bio quality of a product? My answer is: not. Here an example: can a deodorant containing medicated water of camomile (as an only component bio) be regarded as bio whereas a deodorant with the extract of sorrel bio and alcohol bio would not be it? According to the detractors of BDIH (see News) the deodorant with the medicated water of camomile would be a cosmetic bio and the deodorant with the extract of sorrel bio and alcohol bio would be “only” one natural cosmetic. Why? Because the product with the medicated water is certified by Ecocert/Cosmebio and can thus be called cosmetic bio and that the other deodorant is certified by BDIH what makes him carry the name of natural cosmetic. The fact is that names say of it little on real bio quality a product. A cosmetic product certified bio can contain less bio quality than a product certified cosmetic naturalness, or the reverse.
Here a small overall picture of the ingredients bio of the deodorants presented:
• Health (Cosmetic naturalness controlled BDIH): alcohol bio, extracted from sorrel bio
• B COM Bio (Cosmetic Bio Cosmebio Charter): medicated water (water of camomile)
• Melvita (Cosmetic Bio Cosmebio Charter): extracted from aloe will vera, oil of macadamia
• Laboratory J. Paltz (Cosmetic Bio Cosmebio Charter): medicated water of tree with the, essential oils
• Dr. Hauschka (Cosmetic naturalness controlled BDIH): sage extract, waxes jojoba
• Bioregena (Cosmetic Bio Cosmebio Charter): medicated water of tree with the, essential oils
• Logona (Cosmetic naturalness controlled BDIH): alcohol bio, extracted from sage
• Beguine (Cosmetic Bio Cosmebio Charter): alcohol bio, extracted from aloe will vera, essential oils
I regret much that in the debate on the topic of “bio quality” objectivity more and more often passes in the second plan. In my book “the Truth on the natural Cosmetics” I studied the subject in detail (pages 45-50). In conclusion: for two certifications, Ecocert/Cosmebio as for certification BDIH, the products are dissociated first of all by their natural quality. Natural quality like basic principle with certain raw materials resulting from the organic farming: it is the starting rule for the certified products of the two “camps” of certification.
The total quality of a product is only given by its total formula, therefore by the analysis of all the ingredients. To name one example: a medicated water bio does not make a shampoo a good product when only the surface-active employee is ammonium lauryl sulfate, irritating component. In comparison a shampoo which would not contain any ingredient bio but which would employ a surface-active naturalness of softest would be a much better choice. As all this is somewhat complicated, I will more often express myself from now on on this subject. |
