How we scored it
Fixed oil expressed from rose seeds; vegetable oil is natural, no petrochemical fragment.
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
Rosa Rugosa Seed Oil is expressed from the seeds of Rosa rugosa. No synthetic alternative route exists for this vegetable oil.
In plain English
An oil pressed from rose seeds. Used as a skin-softening emollient.
CosIng definition: Rosa Rugosa Seed Oil is the fixed oil expressed from the seeds of Rosa rugosa.
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 RUGOSA SEED OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ROSA RUGOSA SEED OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ROSA%20RUGOSA%20SEED%20OIL