How we scored it
Extract of whole sweet wormwood herb; single botanical extract, no synthetic fragments → 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
Extracted from the whole Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood) herb using conventional solvent or aqueous extraction. Single natural route.
In plain English
A herbal extract from sweet wormwood. Used as a fragrance ingredient in cosmetics. Made by extracting the whole plant, with no synthetic chemistry involved.
CosIng definition: Artemisia Annua Extract is an extract of the whole herb, Artemisia annua 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.
- 2ARTEMISIA ANNUA EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ARTEMISIA ANNUA EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ARTEMISIA%20ANNUA%20EXTRACT