How we scored it
Dried, ground monk fruit; unmodified plant material used as an abrasive, all mass natural.
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
Monk fruit is dried and ground into a powder used as a gentle abrasive/exfoliant. It is a purely mechanical process with no chemical modification.
In plain English
A powder made from dried, ground monk fruit. It's used as a gentle exfoliating scrub particle. Produced by simple drying and grinding.
CosIng definition: Siraitia Grosvenorii Fruit Powder is the powder obtained from the dried, ground fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, Cucurbitaceae.
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.
- 2SIRAITIA GROSVENORII FRUIT POWDER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3SIRAITIA GROSVENORII FRUIT POWDER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SIRAITIA%20GROSVENORII%20FRUIT%20POWDER