How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil obtained from seeds; triglyceride mixture, no petrochemical fragment → 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
Obtained by pressing the seeds of Parinari curatellifolia (mobola plum), a sub-Saharan African tree, for use as an emollient oil. No synthetic route exists.
In plain English
A plant oil pressed from mobola plum tree seeds, used as an emollient to soften skin. It's a traditional African oil obtained by expressing the seeds.
CosIng definition: Parinari Curatellifolia Seed Oil is the fixed oil obtained from the seeds of the tree Parinari curatellifolia, Chrysobalanceae
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.
- 2PARINARI CURATELLIFOLIA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PARINARI CURATELLIFOLIA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PARINARI%20CURATELLIFOLIA%20SEED%20OIL