Database/Skin Conditioning/Gossypium Herbaceum Seed Oil
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Gossypium Herbaceum Seed Oil natural?

Yes. Fixed oil pressed straight from cotton seeds with no petrochemical processing step, so it counts fully as natural origin under the botanical-oils convention.

INCI nameGossypium Herbaceum Seed Oil
CAS8001-29-4
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockExpressed (pressed) from the seeds of Gossypium herbaceum…

How we scored it

Fixed vegetable oil expressed directly from cotton seeds; whole-oil botanical, no synthetic fragment. 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

Expressed (pressed) from the seeds of Gossypium herbaceum (cotton) plants grown for cotton fibre and seed oil. No alternative petrochemical route exists for this vegetable oil.

In plain English

Cottonseed oil is a light vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of the cotton plant. It's used in cosmetics as a skin-conditioning emollient, similar to other seed oils used in lotions and creams.

CosIng definition: Gossypium Herbaceum Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of various species of the Cotton Seed, Gossypium spp., Malvaceae

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