How we scored it
Dried flowers: whole plant material, all mass plant-derived, so 1.0. No synthetic fragments.
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
Cornflower blossoms from cultivated Centaurea cyanus are harvested and dried. No synthetic route exists for this plant material.
In plain English
Dried cornflower blossoms used as a skin-conditioning ingredient. It is whole plant material that has only been dried, with nothing synthesised.
CosIng definition: Centaurea Cyanus Flower is a plant material derived from the dried flowers of the Cornflower, Centaurea cyanus L., Compositae
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.
- 2CENTAUREA CYANUS FLOWER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CENTAUREA CYANUS FLOWER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CENTAUREA%20CYANUS%20FLOWER