How we scored it
Magnesium silicate clay mineral; minerals are natural origin under this site's method.
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
Mined from natural sepiolite clay deposits and purified by milling. No synthetic route is used commercially.
In plain English
A soft clay mineral used to thicken and stabilise the texture of creams and lotions. Mined from natural clay deposits.
CosIng definition: Meerschaum
Structure
tetramagnesium;tris(oxido-[oxido(oxo)silyl]oxy-oxosilane);dihydroxide;hexahydrate
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.
- 2Sepiolite. PubChem CID 155804690. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- 3SEPIOLITE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 4SEPIOLITE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SEPIOLITE