How we scored it
Expressed vegetable seed oil; no petrochemical reagent mass retained = 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
Made by cold-pressing or expressing the seeds of Hippophae rhamnoides (sea buckthorn), mainly grown in China and Northern Europe. No synthetic alternative route is used commercially.
In plain English
A skin-protecting oil pressed from sea buckthorn seeds. It comes from the seeds of Hippophae rhamnoides, a shrub grown mainly in China and Northern Europe.
CosIng definition: Hippophae Rhamnoides Seed Oil is the oil expressed from the seeds of the Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides L., Elaeagnaceae
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.
- 2HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=HIPPOPHAE%20RHAMNOIDES%20SEED%20OIL