Database/Humectant/Pouteria Lucuma Seed Oil
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Pouteria Lucuma Seed Oil natural?

Yes. Cold-pressed/expressed oil from lucuma fruit seeds; entirely natural triglyceride mixture, no synthetic processing.

INCI namePouteria Lucuma Seed Oil
FunctionHumectant · Skin Conditioning
FeedstockExpressed (cold-pressed) from the seeds of the lucuma…

How we scored it

Fixed vegetable oil expressed from seeds; 1.0 by this site's convention for oils.
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 (cold-pressed) from the seeds of the lucuma fruit (Pouteria lucuma), native to South America. No synthetic alternative is used.

In plain English

A nourishing oil pressed from lucuma fruit seeds, used in moisturizers to soften skin and lock in hydration.

CosIng definition: Pouteria Lucuma Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Pouteria lucuma.

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