How we scored it
Volatile oil distilled from whole cypress plant; botanical oil convention = 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 steam distillation of the cypress plant (Cupressus sempervirens). A purely physical extraction, no synthetic route.
In plain English
An essential oil distilled from the cypress plant, used as a fragrance ingredient. It's produced by steam distillation of the plant material.
CosIng definition: Cupressus Sempervirens Oil is the volatile oil obtained from the whole plant, the Cypress, Cupressus sempervirens L., Pinaceae
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.
- 2CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENS OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENS OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CUPRESSUS%20SEMPERVIRENS%20OIL