Why Everyone Can Enjoy Halal Skincare: Benefits

Halal principles have many benefits and advantages for your skin’s health and the environment. Here’s why you should make the switch to Halal skincare:

• Live a more sustainable and ethical lifestyle;

• Support cosmetics brands and products with no animal testing;

• Enjoy a clean beauty skincare routine – for ex. your moisturizers will be made with the highest level of cleanliness;

• Avoid harsh skincare ingredients like alcohol and parabens;

We’ve created our NUME-Lab Switzerland skincare brand with these principles in mind. NUME-Lab Swiss skincare brand is born of a need to follow an ethical and conscious approach while delivering high efficacy skincare products. 

Our products are formulated and developed through Swiss biotechnology research and tested in laboratories to assure the highest quality and safety standards.

Still unsure if it’s the right choice? Let’s learn more about it.

What Is Halal Skincare routine?

The concept of Halal signifies a sustainable, clean, and ethical approach to skincare. That means unclean ingredients like certain alcohols or unethically sourced animal-derived compounds. A skincare brand has to follow Halal practices in all production stages to get this certification – from the raw ingredients to the manufacturing process, packaging, and distribution. Halal cosmetics let the skin breath and are not waterproof, being always not occlusive.

These standards initially apply to food and things we eat. But, knowing that our skin is our biggest organ and has immense absorption powers, every ingredient that’s impure for eating, it’s impure for the skin. That’s the basic ideology behind Halal skincare brands. And now you can have it all: Clean, Halal and Swiss Skincare!

Halal Skincare

Halal skincare focuses on sustainable, clean, and ethical practices. It avoids using ingredients like certain alcohols and animal-derived compounds obtained unethically.

To earn the Halal certification, skincare or cosmetic brand must adhere to Halal principles throughout the entire production process, including sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution. Halal cosmetics allow the skin to breathe and are non-occlusive and non-waterproof.

Originally, the Halal standards were established for food and consumables. However, considering that our skin is our largest organ and capable of absorbing substances, any ingredient deemed impure for consumption is also considered impure for the skin. This fundamental principle forms the basis of Halal skincare brands.

Halal Best Skincare forbits:

• Alcohol (in the form of ethanol);

• Collagen (from mammal-derived sources);

• Human or animal-derived stem cells;

• Swine gelatine;

• Animal by-products extracted using cruel methods that harm the animals;

• Animal-derived ingredients from swine and other Haram animals (carnivorous animals);

• GMO’s;

Which Ingredients Are Forbidden in Halal Skincare Products?

To be Halal-certified, skincare products shouldn’t contain any:

• Alcohol (in the form of ethanol – benzyl alcohol is allowed);

• Collagen (from mammal-derived sources);

• Human or animal-derived stem cells;

• Gelatine (from swine only);

• Animal by-products extracted using cruel methods that harm the animals;

• Animal-derived ingredients from swine and other Haram animals (carnivorous animals);

• No GMO’s

Which Ingredients Are Allowed in a Halal Skincare Brand?

We know what ingredients not to use, so let’s see which ones are acceptable in Halal skincare. There are many more Halal than Haram ingredients out there, so we obviously cannot count all of them. But, here are some of our favorite approved ingredients:

• Plant-derived extracts manufactured according to Halal principles;

• Animal-derived by-products that don’t harm the animal and use Halal methods (for instance, using a SPA treatment to collect snail mucin extract);

• Synthetically produced ingredients in a lab-setting (like our Swiss biotech methods);

• Vitamins and antioxidants that are plant-derived or synthetic, such as vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin A, etc.

• Hyaluronic acid made with Swiss biotech methods in a lab (careful of its natural counterpart – the rooster comb-derived one);

• All other plant-derived or synthetic ingredients
  Powerful natural ingredients like honey or snail mucin