How we scored it
Expressed vegetable oil from seeds; entirely fatty triglyceride.
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
Cold-pressed from the seeds of the Madagascar baobab tree. No synthetic route exists for this expressed oil.
In plain English
A nourishing oil pressed from the seeds of the Madagascar baobab tree. It's used to condition skin and hair and to help protect the skin barrier, sourced directly from baobab seeds.
CosIng definition: Adansonia Grandidieri Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Adansonia grandidieri, Malvaceae.
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.
- 2ADANSONIA GRANDIDIERI SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ADANSONIA GRANDIDIERI SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ADANSONIA%20GRANDIDIERI%20SEED%20OIL