How we scored it
Expressed vegetable oil; entirely fatty-acid triglyceride from fruit pulp.
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
Pressed from the fruit of the American oil palm (a hybrid palm species) much like conventional palm oil. No synthetic route exists for this expressed oil.
In plain English
A vegetable oil pressed from the fruit of the American oil palm, a relative of the standard oil palm. It's used as an emollient to soften and condition skin and hair.
CosIng definition: Elaeis Oleifera Fruit Oil is the oil expressed from the fruit of Elaeis oleifera, plant formed by the hybridization of the Palm, Elaeis guineensis with Elaeis oleifera
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.
- 2ELAEIS OLEIFERA FRUIT OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ELAEIS OLEIFERA FRUIT OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ELAEIS%20OLEIFERA%20FRUIT%20OIL