How we scored it
Ground soybean; convention rates powders/flour at 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
Produced by grinding the seed of Glycine soja (soybean) into flour. No petrochemical equivalent exists.
In plain English
A flour made by grinding soybeans, used to condition skin and hair and help moisturise. It's simply a ground powder of the whole soybean.
CosIng definition: Glycine Soja Flour is the powder prepared from the fine grinding of the Soybean, Glycine soja, Leguminosae
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.
- 2GLYCINE SOJA FLOUR. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3GLYCINE SOJA FLOUR. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=GLYCINE%20SOJA%20FLOUR