Is Aronia Melanocarpa Fruit Juice natural?

Q: Is Aronia Melanocarpa Fruit Juice natural?

Aronia Melanocarpa Fruit Juice has a Natural Origin Index (NOI) of 1.00 (scale 0–1) per ISO 16128. Juice expressed directly from chokeberry fruit; no synthetic fragments. An NOI of 1.00 means 100% of its molecular mass is traceable to a natural, renewable source.

Yes. Juice expressed directly from chokeberry fruit; no synthetic fragments.

INCI nameAronia Melanocarpa Fruit Juice

FunctionSkin Conditioning

FeedstockExpressed from fresh aronia/chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) fruit. No…

How we scored it

Whole expressed fruit juice; this site's convention: juices = 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

Expressed from fresh aronia/chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) fruit. No alternative industrial route.

In plain English

Juice pressed from chokeberries (aronia), added to skin care for conditioning. Just the expressed juice of the fruit, nothing else.

CosIng definition: Aronia Melanocarpa Fruit Juice is the juice expressed from the fruit of Aronia melanocarpa, Rosaceae

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.
2ARONIA MELANOCARPA FRUIT JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
3ARONIA MELANOCARPA FRUIT JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ARONIA%20MELANOCARPA%20FRUIT%20JUICE