Svar 22 juli 2025 från Soil Association

Dear Carina,
Thank you for your query.

Beauty products (this includes cosmetic products only) have to be certified under the COSMOS standard.

The product must have 95% organic physically processed agro-ingredients, and at least 20% of the total product must be organic (for leave on products) and a minimum 10% organic if it is rinse-off product (body wash, face wash etc).

Please see a link to a page on our website site for reference: https://www.soilassociation.org/certification/beauty-wellbeing/types-of-certification-services-available/cosmos-organic/

I hope this provides clarification. Please get in touch again if you have any further queries in the future.

Kind Regards

Svar 23 juli 2025 från Soil Association

We do also have the Soil Association Health & Beauty standards (https://www.soilassociation.org/our-standards/read-our-organic-standards/health-beauty-standards/ ) which are a private set of standards created and owned by the Soil Association.

These standards are based on the European Commission organic regulations for food and drink with supplementary standards to cover health & beauty specific products. This was implemented before COSMOS was created.

The SA Health & Beauty standards are applicable to personal care products, pet products and other products that cannot be considered ‘cosmetic products’ by definition in the Cosmetic Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009. It is also applicable to existing cosmetic products that have not been reformulated to the COSMOS standard.

I hope that information is helpful but please do get back in touch if you have any further questions.

Best wishes