Database/Skin Conditioning/Citrus Aurantifolia Fruit Water
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Citrus Aurantifolia Fruit Water natural?

Yes. Distillate water and lime aroma compounds both come from steam-distilled Citrus aurantifolia fruit.

INCI nameCitrus Aurantifolia Fruit Water
CAS90063-52-8
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockBy-product hydrosol from steam-distilling lime fruit. No synthetic…

How we scored it

Aqueous steam distillate of lime fruit; water plus trace fruit volatiles = 1.0.
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

By-product hydrosol from steam-distilling lime fruit. No synthetic route exists for this ingredient.

In plain English

A fruit water made by steam-distilling limes, used in skincare as a light conditioning ingredient.

CosIng definition: Citrus Aurantifolia Fruit Water is an aqueous solution of the steam distillates obtained from the fruit of the Lime, Citrus Aurantifolia, Rutaceae

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