How we scored it
Essential oil distilled from fir needles/branches; bornyl acetate, pinene, camphene and limonene are all plant terpenes. 1.0 per botanical-oil convention.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.
Where it comes from
Distilled from the needles and branches of Siberian fir (Abies sibirica). No alternative petrochemical route is used commercially.
In plain English
An essential oil steam-distilled from Siberian fir needles, used to give products a fresh, pine-like scent. It comes straight from the tree, with no synthetic version used.
CosIng definition: "Siberian Fir Needle Oil". Abies Sibirica needle Oil is an essential oil distilled from the needles and branches of the fir, Abies sibirica, Pinaceeae. It contains about 40% esters calculated as bornyl acetate, pinene, camphene, DL-limonene, and phellandrene.
References
- 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
- 2ABIES SIBIRICA NEEDLE OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ABIES SIBIRICA NEEDLE OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ABIES%20SIBIRICA%20NEEDLE%20OIL