Festival for Natural Health and Beauty Products Was Held

The first festival for Natural Health and Beauty Products was held by Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, and 13 manufacturing companies as well as several knowledge-based companies, active in the field of health and beauty products, participated. This festival took place in National Botanical Garden of Iran.

Regarding the goals of this Health and Beauty Natural Products Exhibition, the research deputy of Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Dr. Fatemeh Sefidkon said, “The truth is that this industry is not at its ideal condition and the consumption of health and beauty products in Iran is about 4.6 billion dollars annually, which is very high.”

She said, “About 10 percent of these products are manufactured in Iran and 90 percent are imported and a small number of those health and beauty products manufactured in the country are natural whereas most of them are synthetic.”

“In this exhibition, 13 companies active in the field of production and distribution of medicinal plants, some entrepreneurs and several knowledge-based companies presented their health and beauty products with natural ingredients from plant extracts and essential oils, in 35 booths.” Sefidkon said.

She added, “The high demand for this market in our country, has made it possible for a group of opportunists to take advantage of the situation and smuggle nonstandard and unsafe products into the country.”

“Organizing such events is a great chance for the public to get familiar with natural herbal products made inside the country and to avoid the harmful and unhealthy products.” She added.

Sefidkon went on to say, “The preparation and manufacture of health and beauty products in the country, in addition to preventing the export of raw plants, will increase the grounds for employment.”

She said, “By holding this exhibition, the Medicinal Plants Department of Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, as an initiator of research in the field of natural resources, tries to introduce a variety of natural health and beauty products to people in order to improve public health.”

Sefidkon said,”This festival was held in National Botanical Garden of Iran for ten days from December 16 untill December 25 from 9:00 to 17:00.”

“Since this festival was held in National Botanical Garden of Iran, which is considered as a reserve of genetic resources of plants, such as medicinal plants, the public also visited the garden.” She concluded.