How we scored it
Juice pressed from peppermint leaves: water, sugars, minerals, polyphenols and traces of mint terpenoids, all plant-made; nothing added, natural mass equals total mass, 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
Expressed (pressed) from the leaves of peppermint (Mentha piperita), grown widely in temperate regions. No synthetic route exists for this juice.
In plain English
Juice pressed from peppermint leaves, used as a skin-conditioning ingredient. It is mostly water carrying the leaf's own sugars, minerals, polyphenols and traces of the mint aroma compounds.
CosIng definition: Mentha Piperita Leaf Juice is the juice expressed from the leaves of the Peppermint, Mentha piperita (L.), Labiatae
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.
- 2MENTHA PIPERITA LEAF JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3MENTHA PIPERITA LEAF JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=MENTHA%20PIPERITA%20LEAF%20JUICE