How we scored it
Ground dried rice seeds; botanical powders are 1.0 by convention, no processing adds non-natural mass.
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
Made by grinding dried rice (Oryza sativa) seeds into a fine powder. No alternative synthetic route exists.
In plain English
Finely ground rice grain used as a gentle bulking and texturising powder in scrubs and powders.
CosIng definition: Oryza Sativa Powder is the powder obtained by grinding the dried seeds of the Rice, Oryza sativa L., Poaceae
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.
- 2ORYZA SATIVA POWDER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ORYZA SATIVA POWDER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ORYZA%20SATIVA%20POWDER