How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil expressed from seeds; oils are scored 1.0 by this site's 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
Made by expressing (pressing) the seeds of the white lupin, Lupinus albus. No alternative synthetic route exists.
In plain English
A skin-conditioning oil pressed from the seeds of the white lupin plant.
CosIng definition: Lupinus Albus Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of the White Lupin, Lupinus albus L., Leguminosae
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.
- 2LUPINUS ALBUS SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3LUPINUS ALBUS SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=LUPINUS%20ALBUS%20SEED%20OIL