How we scored it
Cereal-grass/grain extract, direct botanical extraction; 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
Extracted from Hordeum vulgare (barley) grass or grain, typically by water or hydro-glycolic extraction. No synthetic alternative route exists for this botanical extract.
In plain English
Barley extract is made from the grass or grain of the barley plant. It's used in skincare as an emollient and skin-conditioning ingredient, valued for containing natural sugars and proteins.
CosIng definition: Hordeum Vulgare Extract is an extract of the cereal grass of the Barley, Hordeum vulgare L., Graminae
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 VULGARE EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3HORDEUM VULGARE EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=HORDEUM%20VULGARE%20EXTRACT