11/19/2025
🌱What Is Clean Beauty Vs Organic? 🌱
Clean beauty is a phrase in the beauty industry meaning products that are free from potentially harmful ingredients, inlcuding parabens, sodium lauryl sulphates (SLSs) or phthalates. Clean beauty can also refer to companies that take the environment’s wellbeing into consideration during the development, manufacturing and selling of their products. However, the definition can become a little complicated in that there is no governing body to regulate whether a company is allowed to put that label on their packaging. Neither does it indicate a set list of ingredients that you can and cannot use. It's best to think of clean beauty as a movement of sorts starting from a desire to become mindful about what we put on our skin. Clean beauty consumers are also interested in their health and well-being and in supporting green and cruelty-free brands.
In comparison, if you see products with "certified organic" on their ingredients label, you know this is a regulated term. Of all the beauty industry terms, certified organic is the most regulated term by the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. Certified organic ingredients are grown using organic methods that refrain from using synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation and genetic engineering.
