How we scored it
Steam-distilled essential oil, entirely of botanical origin per this site's convention for plant oils. No synthetic fragments.
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
This oil is steam distilled from the dried flower buds of the clove tree, Eugenia caryophyllus. It is a whole essential oil rather than an isolated synthetic chemical.
In plain English
Clove essential oil, steam-distilled from dried clove buds. It's used mainly as a fragrance ingredient and comes straight from the clove plant with no synthetic processing beyond distillation.
CosIng definition: Eugenia Caryophyllus Flower Oil is the volatile oil steam distilled from the dried flower buds of the Clove, Eugenia caryophyllus, Myrtaceae. It consists chiefly of eugenol
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.
- 2EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLUS FLOWER OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLUS FLOWER OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=EUGENIA%20CARYOPHYLLUS%20FLOWER%20OIL