Database/Skin Conditioning/Citrullus Lanatus Fruit Water
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Citrullus Lanatus Fruit Water natural?

Yes. A steam distillate of watermelon fruit; the material is plant-derived water and volatiles, with no synthetic fragment.

INCI nameCitrullus Lanatus Fruit Water
CAS90244-99-8
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockProduced by steam-distilling watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) fruit to…

How we scored it

Steam-distilled aqueous fraction of fruit; entire mass is plant water/volatiles, scored 1.0 by 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

Produced by steam-distilling watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) fruit to capture an aqueous fraction. No synthetic manufacturing route applies to this fruit water.

In plain English

A watery extract steam-distilled from watermelon fruit. It is used in cosmetics as a light, hydrating skin-conditioning ingredient, similar to a floral water.

CosIng definition: Citrullus Lanatus Fruit Water is an aqueous solution of the steam distillates obtained from the fruit of Citrullus lanatus, Cucurbitaceae.

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2CITRULLUS LANATUS FRUIT WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3CITRULLUS LANATUS FRUIT WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CITRULLUS%20LANATUS%20FRUIT%20WATER