How we scored it
Extract of pomegranate juice: sugars, fruit acids, anthocyanins and polyphenols, all fruit-made; extraction solvent leaves no mass; no synthetic fragment, 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
Prepared from the pressed juice of pomegranate (Punica granatum) fruit, grown in the Mediterranean, Middle East and South Asia. No synthetic route exists; the extract is the whole botanical preparation.
In plain English
An extract of pomegranate juice, used as a skin-conditioning ingredient. It carries the fruit's natural sugars, fruit acids, red anthocyanin pigments and polyphenols. The pomegranate is grown in the Mediterranean, Middle East and South Asia.
CosIng definition: Punica Granatum Juice Extract is an extract of the juice of the Pomegranate, Punica granatum L., Punicaceae
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.
- 2PUNICA GRANATUM JUICE EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3PUNICA GRANATUM JUICE EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PUNICA%20GRANATUM%20JUICE%20EXTRACT