What is EWG?
The Environmental Working Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and environment. Their mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. EWG drives consumer choice and civic action with its game-changing investigations and research on toxics and environmental health, food and agriculture and water and energy.
What is Skin Deep?
EWG’s Skin Deep is an online safety guide for cosmetics and personal care products, launched in 2004 to help people find safer products, with fewer ingredients that are hazardous or that haven’t been thoroughly tested. Skin Deep combines product ingredient list with information in more than 50 standard toxicity and regulatory databases. The database provides easy-to-navigate safety ratings for tens of thousands of person care products.
Safe Cosmetics Champion
aromatca was selected as Safe Cosmetics Champion by EWG on November 30, 2011. aromatica only uses safe ingredietns of level o – 2 under the standard of Skin Deep, and 45 products have been registered to the EWG’s Skin Deep so far.
Ecocert certified
aromatica’s manufacturing facility was certified by Ecocert.
Ecocert certificate is not one off application and it should be renewed every year thorough strict examinations.
Accordingly, aromatica has renewed its certificate every year to meet the requirements.
ISO GMP
ISO 22716 is GMP for cosmetic product and it aims to enhance the safety of consumer cosmetic products through tight definition of manufacturing good practice across all elements of the supply chain leading to the production of the correct cosmetics to the correct specification.
‘Cruelty-Free’
aromatica opposes to any kind of animal-testing since these tests are often painful and cause the suffering of millions of animals every year.
As technology developed, outdated animal testing is being replaced with quicker, cheaper and more accurate methods. Accordingly, animal-testing is unnecessary and immoral test and aromatica has been against any animal testing since its establishment.
aromatica has been on the good company list which is announced by KARA(Korea Animal Rights Advocates) to indicate companies being against animal testing.
Type of Animal Testing
Draize Test
The Draize test an eye or skin irritancy test that involves putting a substance in the eye or on the skin of an immobilized rabbit, and then observing and recording the results.
Skin Sensitisation
This test assesses whether a substance will make the skin increasingly inflamed and itchy each time it is used. A cosmetics ingredient is rubbed onto the shaved skin of guinea pigs and ears of mice to see if they have an allergic reaction. They are then killed.
Repeated dose toxicity
Chronic toxicity testing consists of oral, dermal, and inhalation subacute repeated dose studies (28-day) and subchronic repeated dose studies (90-day) in rodents. Testing on both sexes is required.
Reproductive toxicity
This test assesses whether use of a substance may have an effect on fertility, sexual behavior, birth and growth of the young. Pregnant female rabbits or rats are force-fed a cosmetics ingredient and then killed along with their unborn babies. Such tests take a long time and use thousands of animals.
