How we scored it
Steam-distilled essential oil: methyl chavicol (estragole), 1,8-cineole (eucalyptol), linalool and other volatiles are all isolated from the plant (n=1). Nothing added. Total 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
Dominant route is steam distillation of sweet basil herb. Individual constituents such as linalool can also be made synthetically, but this INCI is the distilled essential oil itself.
In plain English
Sweet basil essential oil, obtained by steam-distilling the basil herb. It is used as a fragrance ingredient, giving a fresh, herbal scent with a hint of anise.
CosIng definition: "Basil Oil (sweet)". Ocimum Basilicum Herb Oil is an essential oil obtained from the herbs of the Sweet Basil, Ocimum basilicum L., Labiatae. It contains methyl chavicol, eucalyptol, linalool, estragol
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.
- 2OCIMUM BASILICUM HERB OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3OCIMUM BASILICUM HERB OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=OCIMUM%20BASILICUM%20HERB%20OIL