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Organic Certification Status · What is Certified, What is Not

Honest mapping of which Essential Care Plus ingredients are USDA Organic / COSMOS-certified, which are wild-harvested, and which are cooperative-grown without inputs. No vague “all-natural” claims.

“Organic” is a regulated label, not a marketing claim. We refuse to use it for ingredients that are not actually certified. This page maps each Essential Care Plus ingredient to its real certification status — certified, wild-harvested, or cooperative-grown without inputs — so your formulator or QA team knows exactly what the label can say.

Certified organic (third-party verified)

  • Organic Turmeric Powder — certified by partner cooperative under USDA NOP or EU Organic Regulation 2018/848 (certification body verified per batch lot).
  • Organic Moringa Powder — certified by Ghana Organic Agriculture Network member cooperative; USDA NOP equivalence accepted.
  • Organic Chia Seeds, Flax Seeds, Fenugreek Seeds — certified organic via third-party sourcing.
  • Organic Cloves, Nigella Seeds, Hibiscus, Cocoa Powder — certified organic when the lot ships from a certified cooperative; conventional lots also available at a lower price point.
Note: organic certification follows the lot, not the product. We will indicate per-lot certification status on the CoA. If your formulation requires continuous organic supply, declare this in the wholesale quote so we route to certified-only lots.

Wild-harvested (not certifiable, but documented)

  • Lake Chad Spirulina (Dihé) — wild-harvested from natural alkaline ponds by the Kanembu women. Organic certification is not applicable to wild populations under most schemes; the documentation we supply is the harvest log, harvest location coordinates, and water-quality test of the source pond.
  • Chebe Powder — ingredients gathered by the Bassara women using traditional methods. Cherry pit kernels, mahaleb, samour resin are wild-gathered, not cultivated. No applicable organic certification scheme; we document the gathering process and partner cooperative.
  • Ambunu Leaves — gathered wild in Guéra. Same status as chebe.

Cooperative-grown without inputs (uncertified, transparent)

  • Raw Shea Butter (Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso) — the shea trees are not planted, they are wild-standing in producer-cooperative parklands. The cooperative does not apply synthetic pesticides or fertilizers (their economic model does not include either). This is “de facto organic” but uncertified because organic certification of a wild parkland is not currently practical.
  • Raw Cocoa Butter (Côte d’Ivoire, Bondoukou) — cooperative-grown; certification status varies by lot.

If you sell into a market where “organic” is regulated (US under USDA NOP, EU under Regulation 2018/848, UK under Defra), do not label the wild-harvested or uncertified ingredients as organic in your final product. Our CoA always states the certification status of the lot so your QA team has clean documentation of what is and is not certified.

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