How we scored it
Aqueous steam distillate: water (n = 1) plus trace plant volatiles (n = 1) = 1.0. CosIng text says flowers, name says fruit; both are plant material, so no change.
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
Anise (Pimpinella anisum) plant material is steam-distilled and the aqueous condensate is collected as the hydrosol. No synthetic alternative route exists.
In plain English
A water, called a hydrosol, collected when anise (Pimpinella anisum) plant material is steam-distilled. It is mostly water carrying traces of the plant's aroma compounds and is used as a skin-conditioning ingredient. It comes entirely from the anise plant and water.
CosIng definition: Pimpinella Anisum Fruit Water is the aqeuous solution of the steam distillate obtained from the flowers of the Anise, Pimpinella anisum L., Apiaceae
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.
- 2PIMPINELLA ANISUM FRUIT WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PIMPINELLA ANISUM FRUIT WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PIMPINELLA%20ANISUM%20FRUIT%20WATER