How we scored it
Whole cereal-grass extract, no synthetic fragments; botanical extracts are 1.0 by convention.
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
Extracted from the cereal grass of two-row barley (Hordeum distichon) using conventional solvent extraction. No alternative synthetic route exists.
In plain English
A plant extract from barley grass, used to help protect skin. Made by extracting the grass with a solvent; no synthetic processing involved.
CosIng definition: Hordeum Distichon Extract is an extract of the cereal grass of the Barley, Hordeum distichon L., Poaceae
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.
- 2HORDEUM DISTICHON EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3HORDEUM DISTICHON EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=HORDEUM%20DISTICHON%20EXTRACT