COSMOS Organic Standard - Version 4.2 (effective 1 September 2025)

Scope

Applies to organic and natural cosmetic finished products and raw materials/ingredients worldwide. Under COSMOS ORGANIC, a certified product must derive at least 20% of its total ingredients (by weight, whole-product basis) from certified organic agriculture, reduced to at least 10% for rinse-off products and for products containing at least 80% mineral-origin ingredients, and physically processed agro-ingredients used in the formula must themselves be at least 95% organic. Certification against the standard is carried out by roughly a dozen COSMOS-authorised certification bodies operating in Europe, Australia, and Asia (including Ecocert, Cosmebio, ICEA, Soil Association, BDIH, Bureau Veritas, Australian Certified Organic, Control Union, and Korea Testing & Research). Note: some ingredient/product-percentage labeling display conventions are documented in COSMOS's separate Labelling Guide, which was not independently verified in this pass.

Issuer

COSMOS-standard AISBL, a Brussels-based international non-profit association formed in 2010 by five founding organic-certification bodies: BDIH (Germany), Cosmebio (France), Ecocert Greenlife (France), ICEA (Italy), and Soil Association Certification (UK)

Version

4.2

Standard name

COSMOS Organic (part of the COSMOS-standard, alongside COSMOS Natural)

Effective date

2025-09-01 (Version 4.2 applicable from 1 September 2025; per COSMOS-standard AISBL, v4.2 made only editorial and transition-date changes, no criteria changes, versus v4.1, which took effect 1 March 2024 and itself carried no criteria changes versus the substantive v4.0 release that entered into force 1 June 2023)

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