Database/Skin Conditioning/Thymidine
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Thymidine natural?

Yes. Produced by microbial fermentation of sugar feedstocks, the standard commercial route for nucleosides.

INCI nameThymidine
CAS50-89-5
FormulaC10H14N2O5 · 242.23 Da
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockThymidine is manufactured by fermentation of glucose using…

How we scored it

Deoxynucleoside C10H14N2O5: deoxyribose + thymine, both fermentation-derived. 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

Thymidine is manufactured by fermentation of glucose using nucleoside-producing microorganisms, the dominant commercial route.

In plain English

Thymidine is a DNA building block used to condition skin. It's produced by fermenting plant sugars with microorganisms.

Structure

2D structure of Thymidine

1-[(2R,4S,5R)-4-hydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]-5-methylpyrimidine-2,4-dione

PubChem CID 5789 ↗

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. 2Thymidine. PubChem CID 5789. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3THYMIDINE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4THYMIDINE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=THYMIDINE