How we scored it
Extract of cultured ginseng callus cells; botanical cell-culture extract is 1.0 per this site's 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
Produced by growing ginseng callus (undifferentiated plant tissue) in bioreactor culture and extracting the biomass, rather than harvesting ginseng root. No synthetic alternative exists.
In plain English
A skin-conditioning extract grown from ginseng plant cells in a lab culture rather than harvested ginseng root. Still a genuine plant-derived ingredient, produced more sustainably via cell culture.
CosIng definition: Panax Ginseng Callus Culture Extract is the extract of the callus cells of Panax ginseng, Araliaceae
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.
- 2PANAX GINSENG CALLUS CULTURE EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PANAX GINSENG CALLUS CULTURE EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PANAX%20GINSENG%20CALLUS%20CULTURE%20EXTRACT