How we scored it
Ester of sucrose (natural sugar) and oleic acid (natural vegetable fatty acid); condensation water not counted → 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 transesterifying sucrose with vegetable-oil-derived oleic acid or its methyl ester. No petrochemical route is used commercially.
In plain English
A mild emulsifier made from table sugar and a vegetable-oil fatty acid. It blends oil and water in creams and cleansers and is entirely plant-derived.
CosIng definition: Sucrose oleate
Structure
[(2R,3S,4S,5S)-3,4-dihydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)-5-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyoxolan-2-yl]methyl (Z)-octadec-9-enoate
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.
- 2Sucrose Oleate. PubChem CID 6438037. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- 3SUCROSE OLEATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 4SUCROSE OLEATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SUCROSE%20OLEATE