How we scored it
Fixed oil expressed from Job's Tears seeds; unmodified plant triglyceride oil, all mass natural.
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
The fixed oil is mechanically expressed from Job's Tears seeds for skin-conditioning use. No chemical modification or alternative synthetic route is involved.
In plain English
A natural oil pressed from Job's Tears grain seeds. It's used to condition and soften skin. Made by simple mechanical pressing, nothing synthetic.
CosIng definition: Coix Lacryma-Jobi Ma-Yuen Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds, Coix lacryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen, Graminae
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.
- 2COIX LACRYMA-JOBI MA-YUEN SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3COIX LACRYMA-JOBI MA-YUEN SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=COIX%20LACRYMA-JOBI%20MA-YUEN%20SEED%20OIL