{"id":525549,"date":"2010-04-13T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.reallynatural.com,2010:\/\/2.2570"},"modified":"2010-04-13T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:55:00","slug":"natural-beauty-organic-cheaters-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525549","title":{"rendered":"Natural Beauty:  &#8220;Organic Cheaters&#8221; Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"540\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4BaO_fnQTnI&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4BaO_fnQTnI&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" width=\"640\"><\/object><br \/>\nOrganic is a marketing term in the beauty industry, and many products, even ones we have reviewed, use the term loosely tricking consumers who don&#8217;t dig deeper into the ingredients.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\/articles\/article_20535.cfm\">Organic Consumers Association (OCA)<\/a> explains:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Organic Consumers Association has long fought against what it calls &#8220;organic cheater brands&#8221; &#8211; personal care products that use the name &#8220;organic&#8221; in the product name or brand, yet are not truly organic products at all. This year at the Expo West Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, California, the OCA staged a very visible public protest to expose what it calls &#8220;sham poo products&#8221; that are &#8220;organic cheaters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The protest was part of the OCA&#8217;s Coming Clean Campaign which continues to expose dishonest or misleading products in the skin care industry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nMany of these brands are ones I have used in the past and are sold in health food stores.   These companies should not be allowed to get away with labeling fraud!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6nZ349MsMT2VMd6XXWSD7J5wqQM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6nZ349MsMT2VMd6XXWSD7J5wqQM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6nZ349MsMT2VMd6XXWSD7J5wqQM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6nZ349MsMT2VMd6XXWSD7J5wqQM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organic is a marketing term in the beauty industry, and many products, even ones we have reviewed, use the term loosely tricking consumers who don&#8217;t dig deeper into the ingredients. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) explains: The Organic Consumers Association has long fought against what it calls &#8220;organic cheater brands&#8221; &#8211; personal care products that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}