How we scored it
Dimer diolinoleic acid (linked vegetable fatty acid dimer, natural) diesterified with cetearyl alcohol (natural fatty alcohol blend); water lost → 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
Dimer diolinoleic acid is made by catalytically dimerizing linoleic acid from vegetable oil; this is esterified with cetearyl alcohol, a coconut/palm-derived fatty alcohol blend. No petrochemical fragments remain in the final molecule.
In plain English
An ester of dimer diolinoleic acid (made by linking two vegetable oil fatty acid molecules together) with cetearyl alcohol, a fatty alcohol blend from vegetable or coconut oil. Used as a rich, cushiony emollient that softens skin.
Structure
octadecyl 10-[5,6-dihexyl-2-(8-octadecoxy-8-oxooctyl)cyclohex-3-en-1-yl]dec-9-enoate
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.
- 2Dicetearyl Dimer Dilinoleate. PubChem CID 133065464. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- 3DICETEARYL DIMER DILINOLEATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 4DICETEARYL DIMER DILINOLEATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=DICETEARYL%20DIMER%20DILINOLEATE