How we scored it
Whole milled seed (n = 1): fibre, fatty oil, essential-oil terpenes and aldehydes all plant-derived; no 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
Dominant feedstock is cumin seed grown as a spice crop, cleaned, dried and ground. No commercially significant synthetic route exists.
In plain English
Dried, finely ground cumin seeds, used to condition skin. It is the whole spice seed milled to a powder, so it carries the seed's fibre, fixed oil, essential oil and other plant compounds unchanged.
CosIng definition: Cuminum Cyminum Seed Powder is the powder obtained from the dried, ground seeds of the Cumin, Cuminum cyminum L., Apiaceae
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.
- 2CUMINUM CYMINUM SEED POWDER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CUMINUM CYMINUM SEED POWDER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CUMINUM%20CYMINUM%20SEED%20POWDER