By Valenti Organics was awarded “Champion”, the highest recognition given by The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics along with the Environmental Working Group released today in their report called Market Shift.

Over 1500 skin care companies signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics Act and only 321 met and surpassed the requirements, and with them us! We’ve surpassed many of our competitors setting up very high standards in the cosmetics industry and proving it is possible to make safe skin care products using only what nature has to offer.

“These companies are leading the cosmetics industry toward safety, showing it’s possible to make products with full transparency and without using hazardous chemicals,” said Janet Nudelman, program director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a founding member of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

The new report released today, “Market Shift: The story of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and the growth in demand for safe cosmetics,” describes the seven-year project during which the nonprofit organizations that make up the Campaign worked with companies in a unique partnership to raise the bar for safer personal care products.

We will keep pushing innovation and proving it is possible to create safe products for the entire family and mother earth.

Congratulations, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics & fellow Champion companies! We broke the mold when we agreed to make safe cosmetics & disclose all of our ingredients, unlike the vast majority of cosmetics companies.

*See the list of 321 Champions, those who met and surpassed the bar, and 111 Innovators, companies that are still working on making safe products but are on the right path.
**Read the Market Shift: The story of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and the growth in demand for safe cosmetics

Enter for a chance to Win a Coffee Body Set (1st prize), a $25 Gift Card (2nd prize) and a Cafe Machiatto Organic Body Oil (3rd prize)

To celebrate our last Weekly Giveaway for the year, we’re giving away three great prizes to three lucky winners!

How can I enter giveaway?:
Step 1- Fill in the form below
Step 2- Tell all your facebook friends to “Like” our facebook page and post “I was referred by XXXXX” on our wall. Your friends will receive a $5 eco-Rewards Card*
Step 3- The more “likes” our page receives the higher your chances to win.

Prize Details:
First Prize: One (1) Coffee Body Set ($63.00)
Second Prize: One (1) Gift Card ($25.00)
Third Prize: One (1) Cafe Machiatto Organic Body Oil ($21.00)

Prize Eligibility:
Only residents of the United States who are 18+ years of age can enter the Giveaway.

Giveaway Starts:
Friday November 18, 2011 @ 12:01 am (EDT)

Giveaway Ends:
Thursday November 26, 2011 @ 11:59 pm (EDT)

Official Rules:
Enter our By Valenti Organics Free Product Weekend Giveaway on facebook.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Entrants can enter the Giveaway for free.

Enter Giveaway Now! >>>>>>

Enter for a chance to Win our NEW ChocoBomb Bath Bomb ($7.00)
Made with only natural & organic ingredients and REAL Organic Dark Raw Chocolate Chips! This is our NEW Bath Bomb for the holidays and the matching pair of our fabulous Dark Raw Chocolate Organic Bar Soap.

How can I enter giveaway?:
Step 1- Fill in the form below
Step 2- Tell all your facebook friends to “Like” our facebook page and enter our Weekly Giveaway. – Read more »

Lavender Body Scrub made with only Organic Ingredients and an array of exotic salts.

When we talk about exfoliation, we generally think facial exfoliation and forget that the rest of the skin in our body needs to be renewed too.

Exfoliation means removing dead skin cells to reveal the younger looking and healthier skin underneath.

We all exfoliate everyday in a natural not quite efficient way. Millions of dead skin cells are pealed off by either biological action (the natural mechanism of our body to get rid of old skin) or mechanical action (scratching, using tight clothe, rubbing, etc) on a daily basis, but despite this, millions of death skin cells remain attached to the body by just simply our own natural oils and dirt. These dead skin cells are the ones responsible to make our skin look tired and in many cases old by increasing our natural expression lines and skin folds. Dead skin cells that have been left attached for too long decay producing acne infections and body odor. In many cases soaps alone don’t do the job properly and that’s when exfoliants come in handy. – Read more »

In the Organic cosmetic and skin care industry, as in many other industries due to the lack of ethics, there are a bunch of phony guys using the most incredible made-up words to describe their products or ingredients in an attempt to make them “look” more natural than they really are. One of the words that seem to pop up a lot lately in almost every non-ethical and dishonest skin care brand is “Natural Fragrance Oil”.

For those that truly know the denominations, “Natural Fragrance Oil” doesn’t exist. This is just a new word made-up to disguise toxic chemicals behind the word “Natural”, but for the majority of the consumers it might make them believe the product carrying “Natural Fragrance Oil” is of a natural origin and safe to use. Nothing farther from the truth. – Read more »