How we scored it
Extract of a medium fermented by Sphingomonas; fermentation product; this site's convention = 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
Feedstock is a fermentation growth medium fermented by Sphingomonas bacteria, then extracted. No petrochemical route is used.
In plain English
An extract from fermenting a growth medium with Sphingomonas bacteria, used in cosmetics for skin conditioning.
CosIng definition: Sphingomonas Ferment Extract is an extract of the product obtained by the fermentation of Sphingomonas
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.
- 2SPHINGOMONAS FERMENT EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3SPHINGOMONAS FERMENT EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SPHINGOMONAS%20FERMENT%20EXTRACT