How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil expressed from camelina seeds; a natural triglyceride oil with no synthetic modification.
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
Camelina Sativa Seed Oil is expressed, or pressed, from the seeds of the Camelina sativa plant, also called Gold of Pleasure. It is used unmodified as a skin-conditioning emollient oil.
In plain English
A plant oil pressed from camelina seeds, used to soften and condition skin. It is a simple vegetable oil, similar in use to other seed oils like sunflower or flaxseed oil.
CosIng definition: Camelina Sativa Seed Oil is a fixed oil expressed from the seeds of the Gold of Pleasure, Camelina sativa (L.), Brassicaceae
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.
- 2CAMELINA SATIVA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CAMELINA SATIVA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CAMELINA%20SATIVA%20SEED%20OIL