How we scored it
Aqueous steam-distillate of arnica flowers; water and botanical distillate fragments are both natural origin → 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
Made by steam-distilling Arnica montana flowers and collecting the aqueous fraction (hydrosol). No alternative synthetic route is used.
In plain English
A water distilled from steaming arnica flowers, used as a mild skin-conditioning ingredient.
CosIng definition: Arnica Montana Flower Water is an aqueous solution of the steam distillate obtained from the flowers of Arnica montana L., Compositae
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.
- 2ARNICA MONTANA FLOWER WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ARNICA MONTANA FLOWER WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ARNICA%20MONTANA%20FLOWER%20WATER