How we scored it
Coconut fruit material (ground husk, shell or kernel); entirely plant-derived with no added synthetic fragment; 1.0 / 1.0 = 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
Coconut fruit parts are dried and ground to a powder or granule. No synthetic route exists.
In plain English
Dried and ground coconut fruit material. In cosmetics it is used mainly as a physical exfoliant in scrubs and cleansers and as a skin-conditioning ingredient. It comes directly from the coconut palm and is processed only by drying and milling.
CosIng definition: Cocos Nucifera Fruit is the fruit of the Coconut, Cocos nucifera L., Palmaceae
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.
- 2COCOS NUCIFERA FRUIT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3COCOS NUCIFERA FRUIT. 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