NATURAL INGREDIENT CRITERIA
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Natural Ingredients include plant, animal,
mineral or microbial ingredients...
• present in or produced by nature.
• produced using minimal physical
processing.*
• directly extracted using simple methods,
simple chemical reactions or resulting from
naturally occurring biological processes.*
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Natural ingredients are...
• grown, harvested, raised and processed
in an ecological manner.
• not produced synthetically.
• free of all petrochemicals.
• not extracted or processed using
petrochemicals.
• not extracted or processed using
anything other than natural ingredients as
solvents.
• not exposed to irradiation.
• not genetically engineered and do not
contain GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
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Natural ingredients do...
• not contain synthetic ingredients.**
• not contain artificial ingredients including colors or flavoring.
• not contain synthetic chemical preservatives.
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* Minimal Processing means the ingredient has had no more processing than something which
could be made in a household kitchen, stillroom, on a farm, or vineyard. It doesn't mean they
have to actually be made in those settings, but that they would require no more equipment or
technology than that which could be employed in those settings. Simple Extraction
Methods/Simple Chemical Reactions include cleaning, cold pressing, dehydration, desiccation,
drying, evaporation, filtering, grinding, infusing [water or natural alcohol], & steam or water
distilling.
** Produced by synthesis, a compound made artificially by chemical reactions, from simpler
compounds or elements. The NIRC has allowed for an exception in the case of "lye" in the
manufacture of soap.
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