Documentation and procedures behind every Essential Care Plus shipment. Useful for cosmetic formulators evaluating us against existing suppliers, QA teams preparing batch acceptance criteria, and importers planning customs clearance in the US, UK, EU, Canada, and the UAE.
Documentation library
- Certificate of Analysis (CoA) process, what we test, which labs, when you receive the CoA, and how to pre-clear before shipment.
- Phytosanitary certificate from Cotonou, the export document on every shipment, who issues it, and what it certifies.
- Import documentation by market, FDA Prior Notice (US), GB IMP (UK), TRACES (EU), ESMA (UAE), and Canada CFIA.
- Food grade vs cosmetic grade, the spec difference that determines INCI listing eligibility and food-product use.
- Organic certification status, honestly mapped: none of our ingredients is certified organic, and we document per ingredient what is wild-harvested and what is “cooperative-grown without inputs”.
- DHL Express, air freight or sea freight, which mode by order weight, transit time and cost, and how collection works at your port or airport.