How we scored it
Potassium salt of babassu oil fatty acids; both fragments natural → 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
Made by saponifying babassu oil (Orbignya oleifera) fatty acids with potassium hydroxide. No synthetic alternative route exists.
In plain English
A soft soap made from babassu palm oil and potassium. It cleanses skin and also helps stabilise the texture of a formula.
CosIng definition: Potassium salt of the fatty acids derived from babassu oil (Orbignya oleifera)
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.
- 2POTASSIUM BABASSUATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3POTASSIUM BABASSUATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=POTASSIUM%20BABASSUATE