How we scored it
Plant material (flowers): whole plant matter, all plant-derived (n = 1), no added synthetic groups. Natural mass / total mass = 1.00.
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
Dominant feedstock is arnica flower heads from cultivated and wild-harvested plants in Europe, dried. No synthetic route exists.
In plain English
The flower heads of arnica (Arnica montana), a yellow mountain wildflower of European uplands, used in skin-care products as a skin-conditioning ingredient. It is plant material rather than a chemical, harvested from cultivated or wild plants.
CosIng definition: Arnica Montana Flower is the flower 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. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ARNICA MONTANA FLOWER. 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