How we scored it
Water (n=1) plus volatile aroma compounds from steam-distilled orange blossom (n=1); nothing petrochemical in the final ingredient. 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
Orange (Citrus sinensis) flowers are steam-distilled and the aqueous distillate (orange flower water, a hydrosol) is collected. No alternative route is commercially significant; any preservative in the commercial grade is declared separately.
In plain English
Orange flower water: the scented water collected when orange blossoms are steam-distilled. In products it is used as a humectant and skin-conditioning ingredient. It is made only of water and the flowers' own volatile aroma compounds.
CosIng definition: Citrus Sinensis (Orange) Flower Water is an aqueous solution of the steam distillates obtained from the flowers of Citrus sinensis, Rutaceae.
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.
- 2CITRUS SINENSIS FLOWER WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CITRUS SINENSIS FLOWER WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CITRUS%20SINENSIS%20FLOWER%20WATER