How we scored it
Fixed vegetable oil expressed from seeds, no synthetic fragments; this site's convention = 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
Expressed from the seeds (kernels) of plum (Prunus domestica) fruit. No synthetic alternative route is used commercially.
In plain English
A nourishing plant oil pressed from plum seeds, used to condition and soften skin. It's a cold-pressed vegetable oil with no synthetic processing.
CosIng definition: Prunus Domestica Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of the Plum, Prunus domestica L., Rosaceae
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.
- 2PRUNUS DOMESTICA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PRUNUS DOMESTICA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PRUNUS%20DOMESTICA%20SEED%20OIL