Database/Hair Conditioning/Sandalore
Mostly natural · ISO 16128

Is Sandalore natural?

Mostly. The trimethylcyclopentene ring and its two-carbon link come from pine alpha-pinene (campholenic aldehyde); the methyl-carbinol end (C4H9O) comes from petrochemical 2-butanone.

INCI nameSandalore
CAS65113-99-7
FormulaC14H26O · 210.36 Da
FunctionHair Conditioning
FeedstockDominant route: alpha-pinene from turpentine is epoxidised and…

How we scored it

Natural C10H17 137 Da (pine alpha-pinene via campholenic aldehyde); petrochemical C4H9O 73 Da (2-butanone); total 210; 137/210 = 0.65.
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

Dominant route: alpha-pinene from turpentine is epoxidised and rearranged to campholenic aldehyde, condensed with 2-butanone and hydrogenated. Butanone is petrochemical and no commercial bio-based alternative is known.

In plain English

A fragrance ingredient with a creamy, warm sandalwood scent, listed here for hair conditioning. It is made in a factory by joining a pine-turpentine component to a small petroleum-derived ketone, not from sandalwood trees.

CosIng definition: Sandalore is the organic compound that conforms to the formula:

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Structure

2D structure of Sandalore

3-methyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethylcyclopent-3-en-1-yl)pentan-2-ol

PubChem CID 103212 ↗

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. 2Sandalore. PubChem CID 103212. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3SANDALORE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4SANDALORE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SANDALORE