How we scored it
Aqueous steam distillate of perilla leaves; whole botanical water; 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
Feedstock is perilla leaves, steam-distilled and the aqueous fraction collected as a hydrosol. No petrochemical alternative route is used.
In plain English
A watery perilla-leaf distillate used mainly as a fragrance ingredient in cosmetics.
CosIng definition: Perilla Frutescens Leaf Water is the aqueous solution of the steam distillates obtained from the leaves of Perilla frutescens, Lamiaceae.
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.
- 2PERILLA FRUTESCENS LEAF WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PERILLA FRUTESCENS LEAF WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PERILLA%20FRUTESCENS%20LEAF%20WATER