Understanding the word "organic" and "natural"

Several customers have asked me whether my soaps are organic. I flatly told them: NO. Yes, there are a few ingredients I am using that are organic (organic hemp oil, organic goatmilk, organic red rice), but they are not in every formulation. An example is one of my shampoo bars which used organic hemp oil. It is only the hemp oil that is organic, and that is it. Due to that, I don't feel it is right to state that that particular shampoo bar is an organic one, because only one ingredient is organic. 

I admit, I don't know much about the rules surrounding the term organic and so on. I'm just using my common sense. If my main ingredients are not organic, then I won't call my product organic. Simple as that. 

Then there is the word "natural". Natural is an unregulated term in its own, and at the end, it all comes back to one's perception about what the word means to them. I believe handmade soaps are properly labeled natural if compared to commercial soaps. The absence of detergents and sulfates in handmade soaps is an argument that one can use to support it. Another case is the use of synthetic colorants and fragrance oils in handmade soaps versus those that use only essential oils and natural colorants. This is another angle to argue what natural means. Again, as I am a simple person, I prefer to use common sense. As the percentage of synthetic ingredients is a small one, I chose to argue that those kinds of soaps are semi natural.

Again, there is no right and wrong in this. No laws broken no nothing. It all comes back to one man's (or woman in this case) perception.