Database/Skin Conditioning/Echium Plantagineum Seed Oil
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Echium Plantagineum Seed Oil natural?

Yes. Cold-pressed fixed oil from echium seeds; entirely plant triglyceride/fatty-acid mass.

INCI nameEchium Plantagineum Seed Oil
FunctionSkin Conditioning · Solvent
FeedstockExpressed from the seeds of Echium plantagineum (purple…

How we scored it

Vegetable oil expressed from Echium plantagineum seeds; whole molecule natural origin.
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

Expressed from the seeds of Echium plantagineum (purple viper's bugloss). No synthetic alternative.

In plain English

A fixed oil pressed from the seeds of purple viper's bugloss, used to condition skin and as a solvent.

CosIng definition: Echium Plantagineum Seed Oil is the fixed oil obtained from the seeds of the Echium plantagineum L., Boraginaceae

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2ECHIUM PLANTAGINEUM SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3ECHIUM PLANTAGINEUM SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ECHIUM%20PLANTAGINEUM%20SEED%20OIL