How we scored it
Steam-distilled volatile oil from caraway seed/fruit; natural essential oil, no synthetic fragment.
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
Steam-distilled from dried, ripe caraway fruit. This is the whole natural oil, not an isolated synthesized aroma chemical.
In plain English
Caraway seed oil, distilled from dried caraway fruit, used to give products a spicy scent.
CosIng definition: "Caraway Oil". Carum Carvi Fruit Oil is the volatile oil distilled from the dried, ripe fruit of the Caraway, Carum carvi L., Apiaceae
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.
- 2CARUM CARVI FRUIT OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CARUM CARVI FRUIT OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CARUM%20CARVI%20FRUIT%20OIL