Organic cosmetic certifications with snail slime 🐌

Une gestion dynamique de la qualité

A specification is an evolving document, likely to be continuously updated and improved according to advances in knowledge, changes in technological capabilities and general regulations. It is within this framework that the national specifications evolve to benefit from the advances resulting from reflections on the specifications harmonized at European level, the COSMOS reference system.
The COSMOS standard is a Europe-wide private standard that was developed by five founding members.
They are all united in an international non-profit association. Their aim is to promote the use of ingredients from organic farming, to use production and transformation processes that respect the environment and human health, to integrate and develop the concept of "chemical green”.

Toutes nos certifications

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Agriculture biologique

Propriété exclusive du Ministère de l’Agriculture, qui en définit les règles d’usage, la marque AB de certification, comme le logo bio européen, identifie des produits 100% bio ou contenant au moins 95% de produits agricoles bio dans le cas des produits transformés.

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Organisme de certification Ecocert

Ecocert est un organisme d’inspection et de certification spécialisé dans l’agriculture biologique. Il a été fondé en France en 1991 par des ingénieurs agronomes conscients de la nécessité de développer une agriculture respectueuse de l’environnement et d’offrir une reconnaissance à ce mode de production.

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L’association Cosmébio

Pionnière de la cosmétique bio, cette association a défini depuis 2002, un cadre réglementaire pour la cosmétologie écologique et biologique. Elle fédère l’ensemble des acteurs de la filière et regroupe près de 400 adhérents à ce jour en France et à l’international. Elle œuvre en faveur du développement d’une cosmétique naturelle et écologique basée sur des produits issus de l’agriculture biologique et de la chimie verte.

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Le référentiel Bio Earth Durable

BIO EARTH DURABLE est un référentiel version moderne des produits écologiques et biosourcés, centré sur la garantie d’absence de pesticides des produits revendiquant le label et le respect du consommateur et le développement durable. Ce référentiel est développé par des acteurs réunis sous forme de club avec un comité d’éthique représentant les adhérents au cahier des charges.

Mais concrètement, ça veut dire quoi pour Mademoiselle Agathe ?

Nous sommes la première gamme de cosmétiques à avoir concentré autant d’extrait de bave d’escargot issue de l’agriculture biologique et de façon certifiée. En effet, afin de comprendre le label COSMOS ORGANIC (standard européen pour un cosmétique voulant revendiquer une conception biologique et écologique) nous attirons l’attention des consommateurs sur le fait que tous les pourcentages de concentration de nos actifs ont été vérifiés et certifiés, de la récolte au produit fini.

Notre laboratoire partenaire est situé dans les Pays de la Loire

It enjoys a privileged location in the valley. Benefiting from the mildness of this territory, it has become the leading French region for the production of medicinal plants. With more than 100 plants with therapeutic virtues, most of which have been cultivated there for more than a century, our cosmetic laboratory collects a selection of extracts from various flowers and plants from its local producers, guaranteeing the traceability of raw materials. .
Our laboratory is ISO 22716 certified in application of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice). Our manufacturing site is controlled by ECOCERT and declared to the ANSM (National Agency for the Safety of Medicines).
Producer of cosmetics of excellence, Made In France, our laboratory has been involved for many years in the production and certification of organic cosmetics in order to guarantee you exceptional products.

Pourquoi les applications de notations notent souvent mal les soins certifiés bio ?

Because of our natural fragrances! Indeed, our COSMOS standard presented above requires the use of 100% natural perfume only. And in most natural fragrances there is the natural presence of allergens, which, unfortunately for organic cosmetics, applications like Yuka note very badly.
It is important, when certain things take more and more place in our habits of life, to wonder about their existence. Especially if these new habits guide your choices. And it is all the more important if we are little or badly informed and let an application decide for us. It is therefore essential for us to respond here to their rating system, and to inform you as objectively as possible, because on our side we also have an indisputable bias.
Know despite all this, that at Yuka no ecological concept is taken into account for the attribution of their note out of 100, when a product is scanned. The components appear from the most dangerous to the least dangerous, not according to the INCI list, from the most concentrated to the least concentrated. The Yuka application does not know how to tell the difference between an ingredient formulated in a desired way for its action, as a sunscreen for example, and a perfume allergen naturally contained in a perfume.
And this constitutes an extremely important bias because the application can give you marks of 100/100 on certain treatments even though several of their ingredients are derived from petrochemicals or are extremely polluting for the environment and are not certifiable in organic cosmetics. .

Le cas particulier du benzyl salicylate ?

Le benzyl salicylate est une molécule aromatique naturelle faisant partie de la liste des 26 allergènes étiquetables dans la liste INCI, lorsque sa concentration est supérieure à 0,001% dans les produits sans rinçage. Il peut être également issu de la pétrochimie et formulé comme un ingrédient à part entière en tant que filtre UV, mais qui est interdit dans notre référentiel bio COSMOS. La présence de cette molécule dans nos soins est donc uniquement issu de notre parfum aux notes de fleurs blanches et contenant 5 allergènes naturels : linalool, benzyl salicylate, citonellol, limonene, geraniol.

Mais est-ce que le benzyl salicylate est un perturbateur endocrinien dans les soins Mademoiselle Agathe ?

Well no, no and no, because this molecule, present in its natural state in a perfume, is actually sensitizing as an allergen for less than 1% of the European population! But it is not problematic, as demonstrated by the conclusions of the study referenced by Yuka.

Here is Julie de YUKA's response:
"We indicate in the application that Benzyl Salycilate is a suspected endocrine disruptor as well as an allergen. We have studied various sources which have assessed the risks of this component, and studies in the laboratories of the Observatory have actually suspected endocrine disruptor activities.." (https://cosmeticobs.com/fr/ingredient-cosmetique/benzyl-salicylate-343/) as well as 60 million consumers (Special Edition n°189 - August 2017 )

Here is the conclusion of this study: "An anti-androgenic activity of this compound is suspected. Effects of systemic toxicity have also been observed in animal experiments, but at very high doses , with which it is very unlikely to be in contact through cosmetics ."

With regard to Mlle Agathe products, which fall into categories 4 and 5 of the restrictions on face care and cleansing care, the restriction of which is respectively 8 and 4.2%. By putting ourselves in the worst case, i.e. the highest rate of perfume in 0.5% products (namely that this concerns a single reference at Mlle Agathe, the others being at 0.4%) we find ourselves at 0.003% benzyl salicylate in the finished product. This is infinitely lower than the most severe restriction (4.2%), or 1400 times lower,! Which is already well below the very high doses used for the studies cited by Yuka .

The COSMOS certification process provides much more security for your cosmetic care with real people who travel for control audits, rather than an American algorithm which gives a mark.
And for the anecdote, know that by peeling a simple clementine in winter, we receive more or less 1200 times the dose of bensyl salicylate than that of our cosmetics...

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