Label on Products
Who is permitted to use the ORGANIC COTTON label?
OEKO-TEX® customers with a valid ORGANIC COTTON certificate.
Distributors or retailers who carry at least one product with a valid ORGANIC COTTON certificate.
Where to place the ORGANIC COTTON label?
On product and marketing materials that promote the exact certified product, e.g. hangtag, tags, online product pages, product flyers, product packaging, etc.
Where to find the ORGANIC COTTON label?
Every label layout can be downloaded from the Label Editor in myOEKO-TEX® by the label owner.
Please note
Promoting ingredient labelling (referencing ORGANIC COTTON certified components when the entire product is not qualified) is never allowed.
How to use the ORGANIC COTTON label on product?
The OEKO-TEX® ORGANIC COTTON label may be used on products and product packaging to identify specific products that have qualified for that label. The label should be visibly placed and easy to access for consumers on hangtag, tag, woven label or packaging. The use of an OEKO-TEX® ORGANIC COTTON label to promote certified products is highly recommended but not mandated by OEKO-TEX®.
How not to use the ORGANIC COTTON label on product?
Label layout can't be manually changed after downloading file through the Label Editor.
Label in Marketing
How to use the ORGANIC COTTON label on marketing materials?
It can be used to promote OEKO-TEX® ORGANIC COTTON certified products through catalogues, flyers, product websites or any other media such as social media in connection with a ORGANIC COTTON certified product.
The connection with the labelled product must be always recognisable and visible for everyone. Therefore, only goods that are actually labelled with an OEKO-TEX® ORGANIC COTTON label may be advertised as such. This means that a STANDARD 100 label may only be displayed in brochures, catalogues, online shops or other media such as social media in connection with the product whose ORGANIC COTTON certificate number it bears.
If a product is advertised as OEKO-TEX® ORGANIC COTTON certified, the physical product must be marked with the valid corresponding label.
For certified intermediate products (to be used as components in further processing), we highly recommend, but do not require, a label affixed to each physical product. However, if these products are being promoted as certified, a label on the packaging is mandatory.
OEKO-TEX® strongly recommends using the label to promote products. However, we recognise that sometimes the design solution won’t allow it. In these cases, a second option to promote the ORGANIC COTTON certified products is available. This is done through text, which shall be in visual adjacency to the promoted product. The text must contain the following information: full OEKO-TEX® product brand name, certificate number, institute.
It is recommended that the text contains a link to the OEKO-TEX® website.
Example:
Verified from farm to product.
OEKO-TEX® ORGANIC COTTON
XXXXXX Institute
www.oeko-tex.com
Please note: The umbrella - & product brand are always written in capitalized letters.