Recently, ITC publiced 'the State of Sustainable Markets', a report based on a partnership with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) and the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD, Canada). This report outlines data on area, production volume and producers. Fourteen Voluntary Sustainability Standards and its impact are described. Voluntary standards are developed and maintained by organizations like IFOAM (the first, since 1972), FSC, Fairtrade, UTZ and Rainforest Alliance. The latter organizations merged, for more info: www.rainforest-alliance.org/article/rainforest-alliance-utz-merger. We highly recommand reading this report, loaded with statistics and merging trends. Here are some infographics: SULA NYC formulates with ingredients from two completely different geographical regions: the wetlands: Amazon basin and the drylands: Maghreb. We are USDA organic...
SULA NYC was certified effective January 11, 2017 by CCOF, the oldest and largest USDA National Organic Program (NOP) certifier of organic products in the world. This certification is for SULA NYC ‘s operations and our brands CULINARY ARGAN OIL and TATTOO BOOSTER. Our packaging for culinary organic argan oil, cosmetic organic argan oil, organic prickly pear seeds oil and organic argan face serum will have the USDA seal and ‘Certified by CCOF’. For the moment, some of our packaging may have a sticker with this info as we don’t want to waste perfectly fine packaging. The USDA seal will be on the label of our Culinary Argan oil bottle and this seal: We support the Non-GMO...
SULA NYC committed to the 10 principles www.unglobalcompact.org of the UN Global compact in 2014, as first USA organic skin care company. Please find our communication on progress in 2015 here: https://www.unglobalcompact.org/participation/report/cop/create-and-submit/active/200221 We source our natural and organic certified ingredients respectfully and joined ITC ‘s T4SD: Trade for Sustainable Development (http://www.intracen.org/t4sd/principles/) . In September 2015, at the Geneva Forum, a great initiative was announced to help identify organic farmers worldwide. This GS1 ‘The Global Language of Business’ (www.gs1.org) initiative will set the direction for achieving traceability across the supply chain. You may compare it to a ‘barcode’ for organic products. We will try to explain the benefits to the indigenous people in the amazon rainforest we source from... ...
SULA NYC uses organic and natural ingredients for our skin care. But what’s the difference between organic and natural? Basically: the paperwork. In order to be able to label a natural product organic you need paperwork/certification: pure natural, no pesticides used during harvest, undiluted product, no animal cruelty and controlled production. None of the ingredients can be harmful, toxic or bad for our environment. Also production methods, labels and packaging are relevant. Independent certifiers, by a recognized body in a country, monitor all phases against standards and their approval results in USDA organic certification. The process is more complex of course, but these are the basics. A USDA seal matters also in Japan or the EU; it is a seal of...
