How we scored it
Volatile oil distilled from black pepper fruit; whole plant essential oil. 1.0 per this site's convention.
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
Piper Nigrum Fruit Oil is steam-distilled from dried black peppercorns. It is a concentrated but chemically unmodified plant oil.
In plain English
Black pepper essential oil, distilled from dried peppercorns, used mainly as a fragrance ingredient. It is a natural plant oil with no synthetic additions.
CosIng definition: Piper Nigrum Fruit Oil is the volatile oil distilled from the dried ripe fruit of Black Pepper, Piper nigrum L., Piperaceae
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.
- 2PIPER NIGRUM FRUIT OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PIPER NIGRUM FRUIT OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PIPER%20NIGRUM%20FRUIT%20OIL