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Thursday, 03 February 2011 17:25
It makes no sense to us at all.
David Lyons, respected naturopath for more than 25 years, and formulator of Simplicité, is unimpressed about certified organic.
He believes the 'organic' certification of skin care is ineffectual and is just used for marketing purposes as it can be achieved with a mere 70% total content being classed as 'certified' organic ingredients. As it is, two 'organic' skin care companies in Queensland have already been prosecuted for 'leaving out' non-organic ingredients.
David says, 'We won’t dumb-down our products to just to have a certificate which puts us in the same league as skin care ranges which we are way above in terms of quality, concentration and activity”.
"The plant extracts used in most products are invariably weak. This absolutely includes the 'certified organic' ones - because the term doesn't mean they're effective.
And the amounts used of these weak extracts can be so very tiny – to say a drop in a bucket would be being generous. This can't and won't give positive, lasting results for skin."
Herbs used in Simplicité products are 'medicinal grade', which means they of a standard, grade and EFFICACY that can be used to make remedies for prescription by Herbalists.
David has been sent samples of organically grown herbs extracts which he would never use because they are so weak. He knows this because he always has his herbs analysed. The weak ones he won't use are invariably 'organic' as claimed. They're free of pesticides, herbicides and heavy metal contamination but are very often very low in what are called 'active principles' - the constituents that make the herb 'work'.
Why? Because they've been grown in the wrong soil type for this herb, in the wrong climate, plus – they've been over-watered. All of which have an impact on the activity and quality of the herbs – it's just like growing grapes for the finest wine.
As David says, 'it's a given' that we source certified organically grown herbs to use in Simplicité products - but we also have another standard to meet - the strength and vitality of these herbs."
That's why Simplicite will only use medicinal quality, high activity herbs sourced from trusted Australian suppliers or from overseas when necessary.
One example: David sources lavender for Simplicité products only from the French and Italian Alps where it grows at altitudes of above 1000 metres. He won't use any lavender grown in Australia because it doesn't grow at a high enough altitude to be medicinal grade. In fact Australian lavender is most often camphorous – and this is usually what people are reacting to who say they're allergic to lavender.