Database/Emollient/Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice natural?

Yes. Entire ingredient is coconut (Cocos nucifera) fruit juice, i.e. coconut water, a natural-origin plant fragment.

INCI nameCocos Nucifera Fruit Juice
CAS8001-31-8
FunctionEmollient · Hair Conditioning
FeedstockProduced by collecting or expressing the liquid from…

How we scored it

Whole expressed coconut fruit juice; no synthetic fragments; botanical juices are 1.0 by rule.
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 collecting or expressing the liquid from fresh coconuts. No alternative synthetic route exists.

In plain English

Coconut water expressed from the coconut fruit, used as an emollient and humectant ingredient in skin and hair products.

CosIng definition: Cocos Nucifera Fruit Juice is the liquid expressed from the fruit of the Coconut, Cocos nucifera L., Palmaceae

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