Database/Hair Conditioning/Pongamia Glabra Seed Oil
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Pongamia Glabra Seed Oil natural?

Yes. Cold-pressed fixed oil from pongamia/karanja seeds; entirely plant triglyceride mass.

INCI namePongamia Glabra Seed Oil
FunctionHair Conditioning · Skin Conditioning
FeedstockExpressed from the seeds of the Pongamia glabra…

How we scored it

Vegetable oil expressed from Pongamia glabra seeds; whole molecule natural origin.
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

Expressed from the seeds of the Pongamia glabra (karanja) tree, common in India. No synthetic alternative.

In plain English

A fixed oil pressed from the seeds of the pongamia (karanja) tree, used to condition hair and skin.

CosIng definition: Pongamia Glabra Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from seeds of of Pongamia glabra, Fabaceae

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2PONGAMIA GLABRA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3PONGAMIA GLABRA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PONGAMIA%20GLABRA%20SEED%20OIL