Database/Hair Conditioning/Panax Ginseng Root Water
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Panax Ginseng Root Water natural?

Yes. A ginseng hydrosol is essentially water plus trace natural plant constituents carried over during steam distillation.

INCI namePanax Ginseng Root Water
CAS84650-12-4
FunctionHair Conditioning · Fragrance
FeedstockProduced by steam-distilling ginseng root and collecting the…

How we scored it

Aqueous steam-distillate of ginseng root; water = 1.00 by this site's method and trace dissolved plant volatiles are natural, so 1.00 overall.
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 steam-distilling ginseng root and collecting the aqueous fraction (hydrosol), a purely physical process with no synthetic alternative.

In plain English

A watery extract collected from steam-distilling ginseng root, used to add a light plant scent and mild conditioning.

CosIng definition: Panax Ginseng Root Water is the aqueous component from a steam distillation of the roots of the Ginseng, Panax ginseng, Araliaceae

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2PANAX GINSENG ROOT WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3PANAX GINSENG ROOT WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PANAX%20GINSENG%20ROOT%20WATER