How we scored it
Pressed juice of giant granadilla fruit: water, sugars, organic acids, pectin and flavour compounds are all plant-derived (n=1). Total 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
Dominant route is mechanical pressing of the ripe fruit followed by filtration or concentration. No alternative route is commercially significant.
In plain English
The juice pressed from the fruit of the giant granadilla, a kind of passion fruit. It is listed as an astringent, a type of ingredient used to make skin feel tighter.
CosIng definition: Passiflora Quadrangularis Fruit Juice is the juice expressed from the fruit of the Passionflower, Passiflora quadrangularis L., Passifloraceae
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.
- 2PASSIFLORA QUADRANGULARIS FRUIT JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PASSIFLORA QUADRANGULARIS FRUIT JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PASSIFLORA%20QUADRANGULARIS%20FRUIT%20JUICE