eo properites list

[see]

I saw a soaper have a displayed eo properties list on her table at a fair. Would that cross over into saying the soap had therapeutic properties?

I thought that even if you implied the soap had therapeutic properties, you were crossing into cosmetics.

I didnt ask her b/c she had lots of customers around. She listed her ingredients in the common "soap" way and not in a cosmetic list every ingredients; she listed oils as saphonified oils and not NaOH.

 

[JackiK]

I'll be interested to hear the answers to this one.

 

[AmyW]

I could be WAY off here, but I think if you list the EO therapeutics (or other ingredients) separately without claiming the soap itself provides those therapies, then the FDA won't hunt you down and flog you. But if you say on the soap "soothing" or "moisturizing", etc, then they would.

I've seen a lot of handmade soapers list their ingredients without any indication of lye in the soap (not even listing "saponified" or sodium hydroxide). I don't know if that's ok to do or not since no lye is present in a correctly made batch of soap.

 

[see]

I see what you are saying but i would think that by her having the list there, and not selling eo alone, it would be advertising as her soaps do what the list says. uhmm

hopefully someone w/ advertising background will pop in and give some insight. i will do some searches and if i find anything, i will post.

peace

 

[ingrid81]

I have read in several reputable soapmaking books that technically lye or NAOH has to be on the label as it is an ingredient that is included in making the product even if it does not remain in the final product.

 

[soapbuddy]

Or bring an Aromatherapy book and have people look up the properties of EO's themselves.

 

[c.a.p.]

I have read in several reputable soapmaking books that technically lye or NAOH has to be on the label as it is an ingredient that is included in making the product even if it does not remain in the final product.

Not sure where you are located, but soap in the US does not have to be labelled at all, as long as it is just "soap".