How we scored it
Fixed oil from ripe olive fruit; oleic/linoleic/palmitic triglycerides are entirely plant carbon → 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
Commercial olive oil is mechanically pressed from ripe olives, predominantly from Spain, Italy, Greece and Tunisia. No petrochemical alternative exists for the whole fruit oil.
In plain English
Oil pressed from ripe olives, used to condition and soften skin and add fragrance. It reaches the product straight from the fruit press.
CosIng definition: Olea Europaea Fruit Oil is the fixed oil obtained from the ripe fruit of the Olive, Olea europaea L., Oleaceae. It consists primarily of the glycerides of the fatty acids linoleic, oleic and palmitic
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.
- 2OLEA EUROPAEA FRUIT OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3OLEA EUROPAEA FRUIT OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=OLEA%20EUROPAEA%20FRUIT%20OIL