How we scored it
Whole ingredient is cultured apple fruit-cell biomass extract; botanical/cell-culture extracts are 1.0 by this site's convention; no petrochemical fragment present.
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
Produced by growing apple fruit cells in bioreactor culture (plant tissue-culture technology) rather than using field-grown fruit, then extracting the biomass. No alternative synthetic route exists.
In plain English
A skin-conditioning ingredient grown from apple fruit cells in a lab bioreactor rather than picked from an orchard. It's still entirely plant material, just produced through modern cell-culture farming instead of traditional extraction from whole fruit.
CosIng definition: Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract is the extract of a culture of the fruit cells of Malus domestica, Rosaceae
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.
- 2MALUS DOMESTICA FRUIT CELL CULTURE EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3MALUS DOMESTICA FRUIT CELL CULTURE EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=MALUS%20DOMESTICA%20FRUIT%20CELL%20CULTURE%20EXTRACT