Database/Skin Conditioning/Anacardium Occidentale Seed Oil
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Anacardium Occidentale Seed Oil natural?

Yes. Pressed cashew seed oil; entirely plant-origin fatty material with no synthetic fragment.

INCI nameAnacardium Occidentale Seed Oil
CAS8007-24-7
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockProduced by cold-pressing or solvent-extracting the seeds of…

How we scored it

Fixed vegetable seed oil; all mass plant-derived by this site's convention → 1.0
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

Produced by cold-pressing or solvent-extracting the seeds of Anacardium occidentale (cashew). No alternative synthetic route exists for this fixed oil.

In plain English

A fixed oil pressed from cashew seeds. It is used to soften and condition the skin in cosmetic formulas.

CosIng definition: Anacardium Occidentale Seed Oil is the fixed oil obtained from the seeds of the Cashew, Anacardium occidentale L., Anacardiaceae

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ANACARDIUM%20OCCIDENTALE%20SEED%20OIL