How we scored it
Volatile oil distilled from Cinnamomum camphora bark or wood: essential oil is plant material (n = 1). 1.00.
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
Wood, bark and leaves of the camphor tree are steam-distilled to give the oil. No synthetic route applies to the oil itself (synthetic camphor is a separate ingredient).
In plain English
An aromatic oil steam-distilled from the camphor tree. It is used as a fragrance and as a skin-conditioning ingredient, giving a sharp, cooling, camphor-like scent to balms and rubs.
CosIng definition: Cinnamomum Camphora Bark Oil is the volatile oil obtained from the bark of the tree Cinnamomum camphora, Lauraceae.
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.
- 2CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CINNAMOMUM%20CAMPHORA%20OIL