How we scored it
Dried leaf and stem of the olive tree; whole botanical raw material. 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
Olive leaf and stem, often collected at pruning, are dried and milled. No alternative route applies.
In plain English
Dried, milled olive leaf and stem, used in skin products for conditioning. It is plant material only, often collected from olive-tree pruning.
CosIng definition: Olea Europaea Leaf is the leaf and stem obtained from the Olive, Olea europaea L., Oleaceae
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 LEAF. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3OLEA EUROPAEA LEAF. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=OLEA%20EUROPAEA%20LEAF