We recognise the importance of avoiding the use of ingredients and products that have been obtained from developing countries on unfair trading terms, or those involving exploitation.

In practice, the vast majority of our ingredients are sourced from the Developed World. However, even when they are not, the Fair Trade movement has yet to produce a verifiable scheme for sourcing cosmetic ingredients to which we can adhere.

We have, therefore, set ourselves a target of progressively seeking to use Fair Trade ingredients when buying from Third World countries, and when that is not possible, we will do our best to ensure that the source is non-exploitative, i.e. a co-operative or similar.