How we scored it
Whole flowers of Rosa damascena: plant material, every atom natural origin (n = 1) -> 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
Flowers are harvested from cultivated Damask roses (mainly Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran) and dried or processed. No synthetic route exists.
In plain English
Dried or processed flowers of the Damask rose, used in skin-care products as a skin-conditioning botanical. It comes straight from the rose plant, harvested and dried, with no chemical change.
CosIng definition: Rosa Damascena Flower are the flowers of Rosa damascena, 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.
- 2ROSA DAMASCENA FLOWER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ROSA DAMASCENA FLOWER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ROSA%20DAMASCENA%20FLOWER