How we scored it
Steam-distilled essential oil from eucalyptus leaves; botanical oil convention = 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
Obtained by steam-distilling the fresh leaves of Eucalyptus dives. A physical distillation process with no synthetic equivalent used for this named oil.
In plain English
An essential oil steam-distilled from eucalyptus leaves, used as a fragrance ingredient. It contains the plant's natural aromatic compounds and is produced by distillation, not synthesis.
CosIng definition: Eucalyptus Dives Leaf Oil is an essential oil obtained from the fresh leaves of the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus dives, Myrtaceae. Its chief constituent is phellandrene 30%, piperitone 40%, eucalyptol 3% accompanied by alpha-pinene, terpineol, citronellal, geranyl acetate, eudesmol, eudesmyl acetate, isoveleral and other volatile aldehydes
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.
- 2EUCALYPTUS DIVES LEAF OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3EUCALYPTUS DIVES LEAF OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=EUCALYPTUS%20DIVES%20LEAF%20OIL