How we scored it
Plant material (fruit): whole fruit matter, all plant-derived (n = 1), no added synthetic groups. Natural mass / total mass = 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 feedstock is cultivated tropical guava fruit, dried and milled or pureed. No synthetic route exists.
In plain English
The fruit of the guava tree (Psidium guajava), used as dried, ground or pureed fruit material in skin-care products as a skin-conditioning ingredient. It is plant material rather than a chemical, taken from the cultivated tropical fruit.
CosIng definition: Psidium Guajava Fruit is the fruit of 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. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PSIDIUM GUAJAVA FRUIT. 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