Quality, quality and more quality is THE watchword at Compagnie des Sens. We are also proud to tell you: we only offer and will offer only products of exceptional quality or nothing. This involves significant work of selection, analysis and regular checks, but also rarely choosing the cheapest lots...
This article was updated on 17/01/2024Before addressing the question of our quality requirements for each of our ranges, it is important to clarify this crucial point: a natural product cannot be completely standard. A plant is not a factory, it will not produce the same product systematically and rigorously.
The main consequence for you is that behind the name of a natural extract there are in reality a multitude of different products, which have nothing to do with each other. And yet, they have the same name. More concretely, will act on the composition of your natural extract (essential oil, vegetable, hydrosol, medicinal plant, powder, etc.):
So many factors that can influence, sometimes strongly, the actual composition of a natural extract! When you buy a "Tea Tree essential oil", however, you must keep in mind that there can be as many differences between 2 Tea Tree oils as between 2 tomatoes: organoleptic differences (color, taste, odor ), but also and above all chemical difference and therefore effectiveness.
“Just as between 2 tomatoes you will not have at all the same nutritional properties, similarly between 2 natural extracts you will not have at all the same properties”
Natural extracts are very often used for treatment, via direct therapeutic virtues, their nutritional properties, via cosmetic properties, etc. In all cases, treating yourself with a pesticide is totally absurd. When a plant has received a pesticide, the natural extract contains it! Every day our analyzes confirm it, the pesticide passes into the essential oil, it passes of course into the vegetable oil, and it remains in the dry plants after drying. In short, if your product comes from a plant grown with pesticides, it contains them too.
Without even talking about ecology and ecosystem protection, it is strongly recommended to use organic natural extracts from the moment you have an ambition that concerns your health.
This is why the Compagnie des Sens only sells and has never sold organic products, and regularly checks the absence of pesticides in its products, including when the cost difference is very significant. Your health, above all.The fight against fraudulent batches is a perpetual struggle when one wishes to sell good quality natural extracts: mixing with another less expensive material, dilution, change of name, addition of synthetic substance, etc. The fraudster's imagination is limitless and requires daily vigilance.
Clarification: in 99% of cases, when a natural material is defrauded, it is the work of an intermediary and not the farmer (the farmer loves his product too much to damage it).
Many natural products travel (not everything grows a few km from us), and the fight against fraudulent batches can therefore only be based on trust. It requires investing significant human and technical resources, as well as real expertise.
This vigilance is particularly necessary due to prices: if a brand is not resolutely proactive in fighting fraud, it mechanically attracts fraudulent lots because they are of course often less expensive than the others.
At this stage, many brands consider that the job is already well done. The batch is ORGANIC, there is no fraud or variety/species error: what more could you ask for? At Compagnie des Sens, we demand optimal efficiency.
Of course, we check that our Italian Helichrysum does not contain pesticides, that it has not been cut with another oil, that synthetic neryl acetate has not been added to it, that it is of the right variety. But that is not enough. Between 2 acceptable batches of Italian helichrysum, there is a world of difference in terms of composition and therefore effectiveness.
To systematically guarantee optimal quality, the brand must:
In other words, natural extracts must be selected in order to guarantee stability of effectiveness that nature cannot guarantee every time. This is what the Compagnie des Sens does.
“That’s Compagnie des Sens quality: a quality that seeks to guarantee that your natural extracts are perfect, systematically”
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