How we scored it
Whole dried, ground seed powder; this site's convention: powders = 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 drying and grinding cocoa (Theobroma cacao) seeds. No alternative industrial route.
In plain English
Ground, dried cocoa beans used as a gentle abrasive scrub ingredient. Just milled cocoa seeds, no further processing.
CosIng definition: Theobroma Cacao Seed Powder is the powder obtained from the dried, ground seeds of the Cocoa, Theobroma cacao L., Sterculiaceae
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.
- 2THEOBROMA CACAO SEED POWDER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3THEOBROMA CACAO SEED POWDER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=THEOBROMA%20CACAO%20SEED%20POWDER