How we scored it
Fixed oil expressed from Crambe abyssinica seeds; whole triglyceride oil rich in erucic acid, no synthetic fragments; botanical seed oil = 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
Produced by mechanically expressing the seeds of the Crambe abyssinica plant, an erucic-acid-rich oilseed crop. No petrochemical alternative route exists for this fixed oil.
In plain English
A conditioning oil pressed from crambe seeds (a mustard-family oilseed crop), used to soften hair and stabilise formulas. It's simply pressed from the seed, entirely plant-derived.
CosIng definition: Crambe Abyssinica Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Crambe abysssinica. The accepted scientific name for Crambe abysssinica is Crambe hispanica ssp. abyssinica.
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.
- 2CRAMBE ABYSSINICA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CRAMBE ABYSSINICA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CRAMBE%20ABYSSINICA%20SEED%20OIL