How we scored it
Pressed flower juice: water (n = 1) plus dissolved plant sugars, acids and other compounds. Nothing synthetic retained. Natural 1.0 / total 1.0 = 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
Fresh elderflowers are pressed and the juice is collected, sometimes filtered or concentrated. No synthetic route exists, and any added preservative is declared separately.
In plain English
Juice pressed from elderflowers, the blossoms of the elder tree, added to skin products for conditioning. It is a plant liquid collected by pressing, with no chemical modification.
CosIng definition: Sambucus Nigra Flower Juice is the juice expressed from the flower of the Elder, Sambucus nigra L., Caprifoliaceae
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.
- 2SAMBUCUS NIGRA FLOWER JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3SAMBUCUS NIGRA FLOWER JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SAMBUCUS%20NIGRA%20FLOWER%20JUICE