” Fine and invaluable Cream, the Care of THEMIS night prevents the signs of the age thanks to the ancestral virtues of the shea butter “, can one read on packing. But where is the shea butter?
• The shea butter is located only at the 10th place of list INCI: that means that the product contains only very little of it. Moreover, this shea butter is the only authentic natural ingredient of the oily phase. Oils majority, in 3rd and 4th place of list INCI, are two esterified oils. There is no authentic plant oil in this product.
• ” 73,6% of the total of the ingredients result from the organic farming “, can one read on packing. In the actual facts such a figure wants nothing to say, as one can judge oneself of it, this product contains only 2 Bio ingredients: a small percentage of shea butter and an extract containing much water.
Conclusion: with only two Bio ingredients, - a shea butter little and an extract -, this product is classified like Bio.

Why? That is seen with the first glance.
• The oily phase of this product contains 4 authentic plant oils more of the shea butter: in 3rd position of the soya oil, in 5th of the olive oil, in 6th of the oil of jojoba, in 8th of the shea butter, in 12th of the oil of argan.
• Authentic plant oils and the shea butter represent the lions share of the oily phase. The oil esterified in minor amount (in the 15th place of list INCI) is only one “agent facilitator “. Authentic plant oils play a main role.
• Other authentic natural ingredients: 5 extracts of plants (will aloé-véra, bamboo, cafeine, myrrh Indian, will samphira).
Conclusion: this product shows that even without Bio label a cream can be of the first bio quality. 4 plant oils, the butter shea and the extract of will aloé-véra result from the organic farming.

This product is a fluid, therefore a formula light and hydrating, with the result that after water the major ingredient is the glycerin.
• Authentic plant oils contained are: in 3rd position of list INCI the hazel nut oil, in 5th position the oil of rose tree muscatel, in 6th position the oil of jojoba.
• There are three esterified oils. One (Dicaprylyl Ether) positions already in 4th position of list INCI. In this product esterified oils do not certainly play the first part but are however quite present. For this reason I give a good instead of very well.
• The extracts contained are: green extract of the, extracted from barley and hydrocotyle.
Conclusion: in spite of the presence of esterified oils this product deserves its Bio quality by the presence of a good proportion of authentic plant oils resulting from the organic farming.

• The first authentic plant oil of this cream is located well low in the list: in 10th position of list INCI (the oil of argan). It is located between the stearyl alcohol and the benzyl alcohol in list INCI. The stearyl alcohol is employed up to 2% in general. The benzyl alcohol can be used as a conservative only to a total value of 1% maximum. One can deduce from it that the oil of argan was employed to a total value of 1% to 2%. All in bottom one still finds a sunflower oil suspicion (heliantus annuus seed oil).
• It is the isopropyl palmitate (see framed) which represents the oily majority (in second place in list INCI). My opinion: the isopropyl palmitate does not have its natural place in cosmetic and bio. This opinion is not only mine: it appears more and more clearly that it will not be authorized any more during a European harmonization.
Conclusion: the proportion of ingredients bio is indicated on packing: 10% of the total of the ingredients result from the organic farming. Thus the manufacturer fills the requirements of certification Bio d' Ecocert.
• According to a mathematical calculation simple that means: if 10% are Bio, 90% are not Bio. The current rules are thus but that have will to last?

Why? That is seen with the first glance.
• The major ingredients of the oily phase are authentic plant oils: oils of hazel nut and seed of cabbage tree in 2nd and 3rd position of the list.
• With that are added in 6th, 7th and 8th position three other plant oils: the oil of argan, ricinus, sunflower and Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Oil (starting from corn germs).
Conclusion: for this product Bio quality rests on the great proportion of authentic plant oils resulting from the organic farming.

My appreciation for the oily phase: not very satisfactory for a product cosmetic bio
The oily phase of this product contains only one small portion of true vegetable components.
• An plant oil authenticates (oil of apricot core) is only in 9th position of list INCI. With that a little shea butter is added (in 13th position of list INCI). The base of this product, (a qualitative base is essential for the effectiveness of a product) contains, in quantity, very few true vegetable components.
• Other true vegetable components: 2 extracts of plants (extracted from lily and extract of soya).
Conclusion: Two floral water is the main components bio in this product. Certification bio thus is mainly obtained thanks to the aqueous phase and not starting from authentic and effective plant oils.