Database/Skin Conditioning/Fortunella Margarita Fruit Extract
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Fortunella Margarita Fruit Extract natural?

Yes. Constituents are plant metabolites extracted from kumquat fruit, so the whole mass is natural origin with no petrochemical fragment.

INCI nameFortunella Margarita Fruit Extract
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockDominant feedstock is the fruit of the kumquat…

How we scored it

Fruit extract: every atom from plant material (sugars, flavonoids, acids, terpenes); solvent leaves no mass. Natural mass fraction 1/1 = 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 feedstock is the fruit of the kumquat (Fortunella margarita), extracted with water, ethanol or a cosmetic glycol. No synthetic route exists.

In plain English

A skin-conditioning ingredient. It is a plant extract made from the fruit of the kumquat, a small citrus relative eaten whole, extracted in a solvent.

CosIng definition: Fortunella Margarita Fruit Extract is an extract of the fruit of Kumquat Fortunella margarita

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