How we scored it
Sodium salt of olive oil fatty acids; both fragments natural → 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
Made by saponifying olive oil fatty acids with sodium hydroxide. This is the traditional castile-soap route with no synthetic alternative.
In plain English
A traditional soap made by combining olive oil with sodium. It cleanses skin and hair and can also help thicken a formula.
CosIng definition: Fatty acids, olive-oil, sodium salts
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.
- 2SODIUM OLIVATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3SODIUM OLIVATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SODIUM%20OLIVATE