Lovea promises

OUR CHARTER

  • Suncare products are among the most regulated cosmetics. The supposed protection factor (6, 15, 20, 30 , 50..) must be proved and justified by the appropriate tests carried out at independent laboratories. THESE TESTS ARE PERFORMED ON ALL OF OUR LOVEA PRODUCTS WHICH HAVE A PROTECTION FACTOR.

  • What’s more, all our LOVEA sunscreens are DERMATOLOGICALLY TESTED in order to reduce the risk of skin reaction.

  • Our formulas contain NO PARABEN and are WATER RESISTANT so as to always offer more protection.

  • All our products contain TAHITI MONOI, an active recognised for its moisturising and repairing properties.

THE LOVEA BIO PROMISE

LOVEA BIO is committed, through its ethics charter, to respecting human beings and the environment at all stages of design and production of their products; and to offer you certified organic* products which are both accessible and pleasurable.

In accordance with the Cosmébio charter, our formulas are paraben-FREE,  phenoxyethanol-FREE, PEG-FREE, colouring agent-FREE, synthetic fragrance-FREE.

All of our LOVEA BIO products are at least 98% of natural origin.

  • Our packaging and outer-packaging are recyclable.
  • Our transformation procedures and manufacturing process are non-polluting and rigourously controlled.
  • Our factory does sorting and recycling.
  • The tests which we carry out on our finished products are not done on animals.

 

The Ecological and Certified Organic Cosmetic label guarantees that:

 

- A minimum of 95% of the ingredients of the finished product are natural or of natural origin
- A minimum of 95% of the vegetable ingredients are organically produced
- A minimum of 10% of the total of the ingredients are organically produced

Inspection and certification is carried out by a French control body :

This independent body which is recognised by the State will only allow the Ecological and Certified Organic Cosmetic label to be placed on cosmetics which are certified as conforming to the ECOCERT* standard. This body monitors the ingredients used in the product, the way it’s packaged, produced, packed, and stored as well as the waste and energy management processes used during the manufacture of the product.
*Information at http://cosmetiques.ecocert.com

Compliance to new European directives

  • Our UVB-UVA sunscreens are tested and checked in conformity with European regulations: The new European recommendation has been taken on-board to guarantee a high level of protection for the health of European citizens. The European Community has indeed judged it necessary to stipulate the minimum protection that a sunscreen must provide, whether in respect of UVBs which cause sunburn but also, and this is new, UVAs which cause premature ageing.

  • The minimum sun protection factor is SPF 6.

  • The wording “sun block” is no longer used.

  • Harmonisation of testing methods: in order to harmonise the testing processes for sunscreen products, the text gives the recommended methods, that is to say the international SPF method for the testing of sunscreens against sun burn and the PPD method for testing the protection against UVA.

  • Sun care products must offer protection against both UVB and UVA. Only suncare products which have a SPF/PPD ratio equal to or less than 3 can claim to be a sunscreen.

  • Simplification and grouping of products according to protection categories: the range of protection factors has been reduced to make it easier to compare different products without reducing the choice available to consumers. The new recommendation, for example, sets the minimum protection factor at 6 and the maximum as 50+. Each protection factor is given a name to describe the category of sunscreen - low, medium, high, very high - so as to give clear information.