How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil pressed from seeds; this site's convention for oils → 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 the seeds (nuts) of Bertholletia excelsa (Brazil nut tree). No synthetic alternative exists.
In plain English
An emollient oil pressed from Brazil nuts. Used in skincare to soften and condition skin, it comes directly from the nut of the Brazil nut tree via mechanical pressing.
CosIng definition: Bertholletia Excelsa Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the nuts of the Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae
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.
- 2BERTHOLLETIA EXCELSA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3BERTHOLLETIA EXCELSA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=BERTHOLLETIA%20EXCELSA%20SEED%20OIL