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

Is Terminalia Chebula Fruit Powder natural?

Yes. Simple drying and grinding of Terminalia chebula fruit retains all plant-origin mass.

INCI nameTerminalia Chebula Fruit Powder
CAS90131-48-9
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockMade by drying and grinding the fruit of…

How we scored it

Dried, ground whole fruit powder; no chemical modification. 1.0 by this site's convention for botanical powders.
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 drying and grinding the fruit of the Myrobalan tree. No synthetic processing is involved.

In plain English

A powder made from the dried, ground fruit of the Myrobalan tree, used to condition skin. Produced simply by drying and grinding the whole fruit.

CosIng definition: Terminalia Chebula Fruit Powder is the powder obtained from the dried, ground fruit of the Myrobalan, Terminalia chebula, 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 CHEBULA FRUIT POWDER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3TERMINALIA CHEBULA 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%20CHEBULA%20FRUIT%20POWDER