How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil expressed from oat kernels; whole-oil botanical, no synthetic fragment. 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 (pressed) from the kernels of Avena sativa (oat). No alternative petrochemical route exists for this vegetable oil.
In plain English
Oat kernel oil is a fixed vegetable oil pressed from oat kernels. It's used in skincare as a skin-conditioning emollient.
CosIng definition: Avena Sativa Kernel Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the kernels of the Oat, Avena sativa L., Poaceae
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.
- 2AVENA SATIVA KERNEL OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3AVENA SATIVA KERNEL OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=AVENA%20SATIVA%20KERNEL%20OIL