How we scored it
Expressed vegetable seed oil; all mass traceable to black pepper seeds.
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
Obtained by cold-pressing or expressing the seeds of black pepper (Piper nigrum). No alternative synthetic route.
In plain English
An oil pressed from black pepper seeds, used for its astringent, fragrant properties. It is simply expressed plant oil, nothing synthetic added.
CosIng definition: Piper Nigrum Seed Oil is the oil expressed from the seeds 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 SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PIPER NIGRUM SEED 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%20SEED%20OIL