How we scored it
Plant meristem cell suspension culture = 1.0 under the botanical-extract convention.
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
Grown by culturing meristem cells from Buddleja davidii (butterfly bush) plant tissue in a bioreactor. It remains a plant-derived, natural-origin material despite lab cultivation.
In plain English
A skin-conditioning ingredient made from cultured plant stem cells of the butterfly bush, grown in a lab from plant tissue rather than harvested from the wild.
CosIng definition: Buddleja Davidii Meristem Cell Culture is a suspension of the cultured meristem cells of Buddleja davidii, Scrophulariaceae
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.
- 2BUDDLEJA DAVIDII MERISTEM CELL CULTURE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3BUDDLEJA DAVIDII MERISTEM CELL CULTURE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=BUDDLEJA%20DAVIDII%20MERISTEM%20CELL%20CULTURE