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]]>The brand’s FranChouliPom Body Oil, Yoga&Sports Body Oil, Acqua di Rosa Balancing Mist and GoodOils Cleansing Oil are now all available in 30ml travel sizes.
Terre Verdi’s Organic Gift Set for Body contains FranChouliPom Body Oil and Yoga&Sports Body Oil (both 30ml), together with its versatile cold-pressed Marocco Argan Oil (50ml) which can be used on skin, nails and hair.
The Organic Gift Set for Face includes travel sizes of Terre Verdi GoodOils Cleansing Oil and AcquaDiRosa Balancing Mist, along with the FranChouliPom Facial Serum, suitable for dry or mature skin.
All Terre Verdi products are certified organic with Soil Association COSMOS, cruelty-free and vegan.
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The Soil Association event will continue to build on the Campaign for Clarity, calling on brands to ‘stop the greenwash’ to enable consumers to be sure that what they are buying is genuinely organic or natural.
The campaign has been given a new look this year, with a fresh logo and creative, as well as a dedicated beauty Instagram. “We are completely revamping the creative and the materials around Organic Beauty Week,” says Clare McDermott, business development director, Soil Association Certification, “and we are taking it national – as well as hosting events in London for beauty buyers we will be holding events in Bristol and Glasgow, primarily to educate but also to allow people to sample brands.”
For retailers, the Soil Association will be offering a digital toolkit available to download, including free POS materials highlighting Organic Beauty Week with the sub-heading – ‘look for the logo’ and ‘we have the logo’. Retailers can place these over certified products to promote Organic Beauty Week and make the most of their offers.
Kim Allan of Botanical Brands, which is running a special promotion for retailers during the month, commented: “Awareness for natural and organic beauty is at an all-time high. More and more consumers are looking for natural and organic skincare but products they can trust and rely upon to deliver results. Certification provides that reassurance and that’s why the Soil Association is focusing on looking for the logo during Organic Beauty Week this year.”
Organic beauty brands partnering the Soil Association during the event include Neal’s Yard Remedies, Herbfarmacy, Spiezia, Natracare, Voya, Therapi, Bamford, Skin and Tonic and Terre Verdi.
Health, wellness and fitness blogger Niomi Smart is the ambassador for this year’s event.
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]]>Several new awards have been added for 2017: the Best Soil Association-Certified Organic Range; the best Vegan Society-Certified Vegan Range; and the Best Natural Foot Care Product.
Awards will also go to Natural Health’s Holistic Hero, Champion Range, Hotel & Spa Experience and Online Retailer, plus the new High Street Retailer category, all nominated and voted for by Natural Health’s readers.
The judging panel for this, the award’s 12th year, includes president of the Complementary Medical Association Janey Goddard, Green & Black’s co-founder and author of the Beauty Bible Josephine Fairley, green living expert Jo Wood, plus members of the Natural Health editorial team.
Entry closes on 7 October. For more details visit the awards website.
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]]>A new body polish, body lotion, and hand lotion have been added to the existing Rose & Geranium range, which is formulated using 100 per cent natural products, and is designed to “produce clearly visible improvements in the look and feel of the skin”.
“Different Botanicals formulations provide different benefits for skin but also stimulate the senses differently,” explains Wendy Stirling, founder of Botanicals. “Reactions to aromas can also vary from person-to-person. We’ve therefore expanded the Rose & Geranium bodycare range to provide our customers with more choice.”
From the company’s base in rural Leicestershire, Botanicals researches, formulates and hand makes a full range of totally natural and organic skincare products for the face and body targeting varying skin types. All products are made fresh, in small batches, to preserve their active botanical properties with the company’s processing methods, ensuring the active plant ingredients aren’t destroyed by heating or over-processing.
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]]> 2016 has been tough on us so far. Ronnie Corbett, Terry Wogan, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Prince … it reads like a headline cast for the best New Year’s Eve cabaret show ever, but alas it is instead the tip of a celebrity iceberg of terribly sad losses that we have experienced thus far (let us at least hope that we have reached this year’s quota!).And despite most of us not knowing any of the above names personally, we have felt all of their deaths so very acutely thanks to their sheer brilliance and legendary ability to bring a little bit of beauty into our everyday lives. An observational gag that has us weeping with laughter and nodding our heads in recognition of this overly familiar scene. A guitar chord that strikes a poignant note with our nostalgic hearts as we reflect on youthful times gone by. Our formative years influenced by the resonating lyrics of those in the know, those who have ‘lived’, those who know more than we will ever know.
Collective passion
Be it humour, wit, musical talent or exceptional levels of pioneering genius that we commend them for, the real skill shared by those that we have lost is to unite us, on a global scale, via a collective passion or a common cause. Of course, you don’t need to be a celebrity to achieve that. One small act of kindness. One gesture of goodwill. One good deed a day. If we all lived by that mantra, if we all paid it forward all of the time, wouldn’t life be simply beautiful?
And it’s this humble philosophy that the Soil Association’s Organic September initiative aims to promote. One small change a day. A pint of organic milk. A T-shirt made from organic bamboo. A cup of organic tea and a slice of organic carrot cake offered to the kind builder who is happily installing your rainwater harvesting system.
There are so many ways you can ‘organic your September’, and it can become part of your beauty regime before you’ve even left the house. From shampoo to moisturizers, lipsticks to nail varnish, you can be a walking embodiment of organic beauty at its best. Not to mention looking and smelling amazing to boot!
Organic30
And if you’re not sure how to get started, the Soil Association is providing an interactive ‘Organic30’ list throughout September to encourage consumers to make small changes. Alongside its established ambassadors and brands, there are hundreds of events planned up and down the country, and from 19-23 September the emphasis is on beauty.
So why not jump on the organic bandwagon and get your shoppers united by this common cause? Little and often is easy to do, and far less demanding on the average person’s work schedule. Besides, when we compare our daily grind with that of a Nicaraguan organic coffee farmer, an African organic shea butter producer or an organic tea grower from Assam, it seems a little foolish to think that to swap our mainstream shower gel for an organic option is just too hard, or that we’re too time poor, or dare we admit, we just can’t be bothered…
Pay it forward this month. One small act of organic kindness in the name of natural beauty!
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]]>Partnering with the Soil Association, The Beauty Voice, Peridot Magazine, Melinda Coss and the Organic Herb Trading Company, Formula Botanica is running the competition as part of this year’s Organic Beauty Week (19-25 September).
The first prize is a place on Formula Botanica’s International Organic Skincare Entrepreneur Programme and a free place on The Beauty Voice Course Bundle to learn the crucial business skills to start their range. The winner will also receive free media coverage on Peridot Mag when they launch their business.
The second prize is two hour’s free mentoring with skincare business consultant Melinda Coss and a YOU beauty box, courtesy of the Soil Association.
The third prize is a goodie hamper of organic cosmetic ingredients from the Organic Herb Trading Company and Soil Association Charity membership.
For more information and to register, visit https://bit.ly/Organic2016. The entry window is from 1-25 September.
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]]>The report says that Soil Association Certification now has 214 licenced health and beauty symbol holders and that brands are recognizing the need for reliable guarantees and assurances about the ingredients products contain and the processes involved in producing them.
Organic Monitor figures show that 43% of consumers look for a certification symbol when they buy a natural or organic personal care product.
Clare McDermott, business development director, Soil Association, said: “The organic beauty market is flourishing with increased sales, product launches, availability and greater consumer engagement within the sector. It has relaunched itself as a credible and aspirational alternative to mainstream non-organic beauty and has outperformed expectations this year. Organic beauty continues to thrive and the next 12 months look to be even stronger.”
The report highlighted five key trends:
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]]>Founded by Wendy Stirling in 2004, Botanicals products adhere to strict ethical standards and are certified by the Soil Association.
Stirling comments: “The Botanicals ethos of producing natural skincare products, using organic ingredients and processing methods that ensure the vital life-force of the plant isn’t destroyed – coupled with the fact that the entire Botanicals range is accredited by the Soil Association – has always put us in good stead. However, such a year-on-year increase in sales is unprecedented for Botanicals and must, in part, be due to growing interest in natural, organic beauty in the UK.”
According to the Soil Association’s 2015 Organic Market Report, sales of its certified organic beauty products jumped 20% in 2014, to reach just over £44 million.
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]]>As this latest installment of my Beauty Buzz column goes to press, we are putting away the chairs and closing the door on yet another hugely successful Round Table discussion hosted by the Natural Beauty Yearbook and Natural Products News magazine.
Held once again on the first day of Organic Beauty Week, a select group of retailers, distributors, PRs, brands and industry experts gathered under one roof to share views and opinions on the future of natural beauty.
When the clock struck 12 the room was abuzz with animated voices and excited chatter as new and familiar faces greeted and jointly Tweeted for the Soil Association’s Thunderclap midday announcement. In a bid to get the organic message out to as many consumers as possible, the charity stored up hundreds of Tweets citing this year’s theme, Campaign for Clarity, and released them in one job lot.
Jumping on the pumpkin wagon of this Cinderellaesque announcement was successful organic beauty blogger Ailish Lucas from The Glow Getter, who recorded an instant ‘periscope’ interview with her fellow Round Table panelist Emma Reinhold, trade relations manager at the Soil Association before sending it off into the ether to be viewed by her thousands of followers.
To say the event was a lesson in the art of social media is an understatement. More importantly, it illustrated the international reach that organic beauty could potentially leverage. It is no coincidence that ‘going global’ was the first debate topic of the day, which proved to be one that came full circle, concluding the morning’s discussions as well.
“Unfortunately I don’t think there is a global understanding at all, and I think there probably won’t ever be a correct or in-depth understanding – nobody is ever going to agree,” said Sonia White, owner of Amarya and LoveLula.com. “However, it would be great, and hence why we launched the Real Beauty Manifesto just so that we can at least get the basics right. Defining the term ‘natural’ would be a great first step.”
Helen Lewis, brand manager at Neal’s Yard, agreed that there remains a confusion among consumers on a global scale regarding the varying different terminologies: “We find that consumers understand the term ‘natural’ more than they do ‘organic’, and tend to trust the term ‘natural’ more as well.
“From an international perspective we are seeing the level of organic understanding growing, but there are differences. For instance, in Japan consumers are very hot on what is good for your skin, on healthy eating, and they’re leading the way in Asia; whereas in Korea, where we’ve just opened up, it’s all about cosmetic surgery. In order to get that organic message across you have to make sure that your products are effective. We have to show that organic isn’t just a fluffy word – it actually does something beneficial for your skin.”
Once again it all comes back to efficacy and brand transparency. It was agreed that getting the retail message right is also vitally important, particularly in light of the rise in online sales. But if ever there was a succinct way of reaching an international audience with one clear message then the Internet is just that.
The untapped potential for natural beauty is overwhelmingly large. Forming key partnerships, agreeing on a clear message, producing efficacious products and reaching a wider audience is the way forward. The ingredients are elementary, the question is, how long until we get there?
A full write up of the Round Table discussion will be available to read in the 2016 Natural Beauty Yearbook, published in November this year.
Julia Zaltzman is a freelance writer and editor of The Natural Beauty Yearbook
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]]>This year’s theme is based around the Soil Association’s Campaign for Clarity, and the Soil Association is encouraging all organic beauty retailers, brands and producers to get involved during this event as well as the wider Organic September campaign.
In addition to point of sale (POS) materials that can be used in store to drive awareness of the campaign, the SA will be sharing a digital tool kit with the key messages, suggested tweets and all the campaign assets to ensure the message is amplified consistently. This central online hub will be the main point for offers, competitions, blogs and interviews and will be underpinned by a targeted media campaign.
There are loads of ways to get involved:
You can download everything you need – the digital toolkit, POS materials and the Campaign for Clarity assets – here. Please email [email protected] to register for login information.
To kick off Organic Beauty Week, the Soil Association is holding an event, in partnership with Whole Foods Market, featuring The Hemsley Sisters.
Taking place on 8 September from 7pm-9pm at Whole Foods Market, Kensington High Street, the event will see Jasmine and Melissa talk about their life in food, their philosophy and relationship with organic food and beauty.
There will also be a Q&A session, a book signing of The Art of Eating Well, and goody bags packed with organic brands.
Tickets for the evening can be purchased here.
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