How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil pressed from coffee beans; whole oil natural = 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
Obtained by expressing/pressing oil from Coffea arabica beans (often spent coffee grounds). No synthetic route exists.
In plain English
An oil pressed from coffee beans, used mainly to add a coffee scent to fragranced products. It is a natural vegetable oil extracted from the seed of the coffee plant.
CosIng definition: Coffea Arabica Seed Oil is the oil obtained from the beans of the Coffeeplant, Coffea arabica L., Rubiaceae
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.
- 2COFFEA ARABICA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3COFFEA ARABICA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=COFFEA%20ARABICA%20SEED%20OIL