How we scored it
Fixed vegetable seed oil per this site's convention → 1.0.
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 cold-pressing or extracting the seeds of Papaver somniferum (opium poppy). No petrochemical alternative exists for this fixed oil.
In plain English
A fixed vegetable oil pressed from poppy seeds. Used as an emollient to soften and condition skin, similar to other seed oils. Comes directly from the seeds of the poppy plant.
CosIng definition: Papaver Somniferum Seed Oil is the fixed oil obtained from the seeds of the Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum L., Papaveraceae
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.
- 2PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PAPAVER%20SOMNIFERUM%20SEED%20OIL