How we scored it
Whole seed butter, pressed/extracted fat, no synthetic modification → 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
Pentadesma Butyracea Seed Butter is the fat extracted from the nuts of the Lamy tree, produced similarly to shea butter. It undergoes only physical extraction and refining, no chemical synthesis.
In plain English
A rich, moisturizing butter pressed from the nuts of an African tree, used in creams and balms similarly to shea butter.
CosIng definition: Pentadesma Butyracea Seed Butter is the oily fat extract from the nut of the Lamy, Pentadesma butyracea, Guttiferae
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.
- 2PENTADESMA BUTYRACEA SEED BUTTER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PENTADESMA BUTYRACEA SEED BUTTER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PENTADESMA%20BUTYRACEA%20SEED%20BUTTER