Beauty and personal care

A jar of cream can combine oils from one continent, extracts from another and packaging made in a third. This page gathers our guides to cosmetics, perfumery, soaps and hair care, focused on where active ingredients and natural raw materials such as argan, lavender or shea come from and in which countries they are processed. We check each origin against the EIU democracy index and explain which supply-chain information is mandatory and which depends on the brand's goodwill.