How we scored it
Sucrose (natural plant sugar) esterified with palmitic acid (natural palm/vegetable fatty acid), losing only water -> 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.
How it’s made
Where it comes from
Made by esterifying sugar (sucrose) with palmitic acid from palm or other vegetable oil. Both raw materials are plant-derived.
In plain English
A gentle emulsifier and skin conditioner used in creams and cleansers. It's made from table sugar and palmitic acid, a fatty acid found in palm oil.
CosIng definition: Sucrose palmitate
Structure
[(2S,3S,4R,5R)-4-hydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyoxolan-3-yl] hexadecanoate
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 Palmitate. PubChem CID 21140494. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
- 3SUCROSE PALMITATE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 4SUCROSE PALMITATE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=SUCROSE%20PALMITATE