Database/Skin Conditioning/Terminalia Bellerica Fruit Powder
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Terminalia Bellerica Fruit Powder natural?

Yes. The powder is whole dried fruit of Terminalia bellerica, so every atom is natural-origin plant material.

INCI nameTerminalia Bellerica Fruit Powder
CAS92202-43-2
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockDominant feedstock is the dried fruit of Terminalia…

How we scored it

Dried, ground fruit: no reaction and no added mass, so 100% plant material (n = 1). Natural mass equals total mass, NOI = 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

Dominant feedstock is the dried fruit of Terminalia bellerica, cleaned, milled and sieved to a powder. No synthetic or alternative route exists.

In plain English

Dried fruit of the bahera tree (Terminalia bellerica), a tree of South and Southeast Asia, ground to a powder for skin conditioning. It is simply the milled fruit, with no extraction or chemical change.

CosIng definition: Terminalia Bellerica Fruit Powder is the powder obtained from the dried, ground fruit of the Terminalia bellerica, Combretaceae

References

  1. 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.
  2. 2TERMINALIA BELLERICA FRUIT POWDER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3TERMINALIA BELLERICA FRUIT POWDER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=TERMINALIA%20BELLERICA%20FRUIT%20POWDER