Database/Fragrance/Rosa Hybrid Flower Water
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Rosa Hybrid Flower Water natural?

Yes. Water and dissolved volatiles come from Rosa hybrida flowers condensed during steam distillation, so no synthetic fragment is present.

INCI nameRosa Hybrid Flower Water
CAS93062-88-5
FunctionFragrance · Skin Protecting
FeedstockRose flowers are steam distilled and the condensed…

How we scored it

Steam distillate of rose flowers in water: plant volatiles plus water, all natural. 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

Rose flowers are steam distilled and the condensed aqueous layer is collected. No alternative route is in commercial use.

In plain English

A watery liquid collected when rose flowers are steam-distilled. It is mostly water with traces of rose aroma compounds and is used for fragrance and as a skin-protecting ingredient.

CosIng definition: Rosa Hybrid Flower Water is an aqueous solution of the steam distillates obtained from the flowers of the Rose, Rosa hybrida, Rosaceae

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2ROSA HYBRID FLOWER WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3ROSA HYBRID FLOWER WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ROSA%20HYBRID%20FLOWER%20WATER