How we scored it
Vegetable oil with added hydrogen (H2 leaves no mass); triglyceride remains fully natural = 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 catalytically hydrogenating vegetable oil (e.g. soybean, palm, or cottonseed) with hydrogen gas, which leaves no mass in the product. No petrochemical fragment is introduced.
In plain English
A vegetable oil that has had hydrogen added to make it more solid and stable. Used as an emollient to soften and condition skin.
CosIng definition: Oils, vegetable, hydrogenated
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.
- 2HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=HYDROGENATED%20VEGETABLE%20OIL