How we scored it
Expressed vegetable triglycerides; all carbon, hydrogen and oxygen come from plant fatty acids and glycerol: 1.00.
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: mechanical pressing, with refining, of oil from the seeds or fruit of an unspecified vegetable source. No alternative route is known.
In plain English
A generic vegetable oil pressed from plant seeds or fruit, made mostly of fatty acid triglycerides. It softens and smooths skin as an emollient. 'Olus' is the INCI term for an unspecified vegetable oil.
CosIng definition: Olus Oil is an expressed oil of vegetable origin consisting primarily of triglycerides of fatty acids
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.
- 2OLUS OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3OLUS OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=OLUS%20OIL