Benefits of certification for beauty and wellbeing businesses
With over 50 years’ experience in organic certification, we’re the trusted organic experts, with dedicated technical, inspection and certification teams and a wealth of practical knowledge and expertise to support your beauty and wellbeing business.
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2025 saw growth in sales of certified organic and natural beauty and wellbeing products, with consumers becoming ever more conscious of their environmental impact and demanding transparency.
Types of certification we offer
In beauty and wellbeing, we offer certification to COSMOS organic, COSMOS natural, and Soil Association Health and Beauty standards, including for raw and base ingredients.
Why certify?
Unlike food and drink, there are no legal guidelines in place for using the term organic within the beauty industry. By certifying with us, you provide assurance to your customers that your products are meeting some of the highest available standards.
Access exclusive benefits
We're more than just an organic certification body. We have a wide variety of exclusive business support, which ensures continued integrity of the beauty and wellbeing supply chain from farm to face.
Beauty and wellbeing is a global industry. Soil Association recognises this, along with demand for consistency between certification bodies. As a result, we teamed up with 4 international partners to create COSMOS, a global standard of organic certification.
By certifying with us you will gain access to exclusive benefits. We have a wide variety of exclusive business support, which supports continued integrity of the beauty and wellbeing supply chain from farm to face.
Technical expertise
Individual support: practical and efficient support from our team of dedicated Certification Officers.
Up-to-the minute communications: including technical, legal and standards information via email and webinars.
A trusted reputation in the organic market
Soil Association symbol: access to the UK’s most widely recognised and trusted organic symbol.
Market and industry insights
You will get:
Organic Market Report
Access and the opportunity to contribute to the yearly findings of our Organic Market Report, the only report covering the certified cosmetics market in the UK today. The report explores key market drivers, trends and opportunities within the industry and documents the growth of the organic market.
Regular email communication
To keep you updated on the latest market data in the press, as well as industry events and market opportunities.
Your certification supports charitable initiatives
Certifying with Soil Association Certification means that:
as a not-for-profit business, our surplus income is gift aided to the Soil Association charity to raise awareness, develop and safeguard the organic sector
your certification also goes towards supporting charitable initiatives like Food For Life which campaigns for access to better quality food in public institutions like schools and hospitals
Marketing support
You will get:
the opportunity to work on campaigns to improve business understanding of the organic and natural market
a chance to get involved with our award-winning marketing campaigns
online resources to help you communicate the benefits of organic
Our business has grown 170% over 2024 and meeting consumer expectations by being certified organic has been a big part of this.
Learn more about organic and natural certification
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