How we scored it
Pressed juice: water, sugars, organic acids, vitamins and polyphenols all plant-derived, n = 1. Natural mass 100% = 1.00.
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
Dominant route is pressing guava fruit and clarifying or concentrating the juice. No alternative route is in commercial use.
In plain English
Juice pressed from guava fruit, Psidium guajava, used as an astringent and skin-conditioning ingredient. It supplies the fruit's sugars, organic acids, vitamin C and polyphenols in water.
CosIng definition: Psidium Guajava Fruit Juice is the juice from the fruit of the the Guava, Psidium guajava L., Myrtaceae
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.
- 2PSIDIUM GUAJAVA FRUIT JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PSIDIUM GUAJAVA FRUIT JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PSIDIUM%20GUAJAVA%20FRUIT%20JUICE