How we scored it
Essential oil steam-distilled from oregano plant; natural volatile oil, 1.0 by convention.
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
Obtained by steam distillation of the whole wild marjoram (oregano) plant. No petrochemical substitute route is used commercially.
In plain English
Oregano essential oil, steam-distilled from the whole oregano plant and used to add fragrance. It is a natural volatile oil with no synthetic equivalent used in cosmetics.
CosIng definition: Origanum Vulgare Oil is the volatile oil obtained from the whole plant of the Wild Marjoram, Origanum vulgare 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.
- 2ORIGANUM VULGARE OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ORIGANUM VULGARE OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ORIGANUM%20VULGARE%20OIL