Is Empetrum Nigrum Fruit Juice natural?

Q: Is Empetrum Nigrum Fruit Juice natural?

Empetrum Nigrum Fruit Juice has a Natural Origin Index (NOI) of 1.00 (scale 0–1) per ISO 16128. Water, sugars and pigments all come from crowberry fruit, Empetrum nigrum, by mechanical expression. An NOI of 1.00 means 100% of its molecular mass is traceable to a natural, renewable source.

Yes. Water, sugars and pigments all come from crowberry fruit, Empetrum nigrum, by mechanical expression.

INCI nameEmpetrum Nigrum Fruit Juice

FunctionSkin Conditioning

FeedstockDominant route is mechanical pressing of wild-harvested crowberries.…

How we scored it

Pressed juice (n = 1): water, sugars, fruit acids and anthocyanins all plant-derived; no synthetic fragment. 1.0 / 1.0 = 1.00.

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

Dominant route is mechanical pressing of wild-harvested crowberries. No commercially significant synthetic route exists.

In plain English

Juice pressed from crowberry, a dark Arctic and sub-Arctic berry, used to condition skin. It is mostly water with the berry's natural sugars, fruit acids and anthocyanin pigments, produced by pressing with no chemical change.

CosIng definition: Empetrum Nigrum Fruit Juice is the juice expressed from the fruit of Empetrum nigrum L. , Empetraceae

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.
2EMPETRUM NIGRUM FRUIT JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
3EMPETRUM NIGRUM FRUIT JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=EMPETRUM%20NIGRUM%20FRUIT%20JUICE