Selling B&B Products Made From Bases?

[lisamaliga]

I used to sell soap made from melt and pour base. I always encourage people to list the ingredients on the soap [if selling in a market] and definitely on the website if also or only selling online.

 

[Triquetra]

Correct me if Im wrong but isnt it a law that if you sell online you dont have to list ingredients on product but on the website somewhere? I know thats how some companies get away with out the ingredients listed on their products (much to my surprise when I wanted to know exactly what was in that face scrub I bought from a well known company).

 

[dagmar88]

Also, according to the FDA, "organic" produce is allowed to have an ingredient of Round Up on and in it (and this ingredient has been proven to cause birth defects in up to 90% of test animals). So, to me, "organic" is as useless as natural. Like stated before, petroleum is "natural" but it's also super dangerous.

In contrast to the term natural, the term organic is very well defined and heavily regulated.

Even after multiple years of organic farming, you'll still find particles of round up; as it has been proven not to be bio degradable.

 

[Lindy]

I haven't read all of the responses - but if you are in Canada you must register your product with Health Canada using the Cosmetic Notification Form even when using a base.

 

[paillo]

I wouldn't think you'd have to go as far as to say where you purchased the bases from, but I don't appreciate people claiming "handmade" on bases. I think "handcrafted" would be a more appropriate term. That's just my two cents.

I agree. The only base I use is for M&P soap, which I design and scent. I use 'Handcrafted' on the label, and list all of the ingredients in the base.

 

[Robert]

There's something I've been wondering for awhile, and I hope I don't offend anyone with this question. Do people make bath and body products from purchased, pre-made bases, and then sell them as new products?

Most, or at least a large part, of the industry is based on doing just that. When you see in the USA an ingredients list including the word "and", you know they're doing that, because they bought a mixture of this-and-that.

 

[Robert]

You list all the ingredients on YOUR label that the supplier provided on THEIR label though you will need to make sure you leave out the adjectives such as (emulsifier), (chelating agent), etc. as those are not proper INCI terms - M&P soap is not considered a true soap so it must be labeled as cosmetic, if I'm remembering the rules correctly.

Melt & pour can be a "soap" as FDA regs define it. Just depends on its actual ingredients.