Non-synthetic

Keep the source visible.

Non-synthetic is for what keeps a legible relationship to where it came from, what made it, and what happens to it next.

Not purity. Not a retreat into the rustic. Not human-made good, machine-made bad. A hand-carved table of illegally logged wood fails this; a fully documented CNC part can pass it. The one question underneath: can you still see the chain of consequence?

Mystery is lovely in novels. Less so in face cream.

Before calling something non-synthetic, be able to answer four ordinary questions about it.

Where from?Made of what?Can we fix it?Where next?

Keep the source visible.

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