How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil; per this site's convention oils score 1.0 regardless of end use.
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
Made by pressing the oil-rich tubers of tiger nut (chufa), Cyperus esculentus. No alternative synthetic route exists for this vegetable oil.
In plain English
A fixed vegetable oil pressed from tiger nut tubers, Cyperus esculentus, a nutsedge plant grown for its edible, oil-rich tubers. Used to condition or lightly scent cosmetic formulations.
CosIng definition: Cyperus Esculentus Root Oil is the fixed oil obtained from the tubers of Cyperus esculentus L., Cyperaceae
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.
- 2CYPERUS ESCULENTUS ROOT OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3CYPERUS ESCULENTUS ROOT OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CYPERUS%20ESCULENTUS%20ROOT%20OIL