How we scored it
Extract of wheat leaves; whole botanical fragment, no synthetic step. 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
Extracted from the leaves of common wheat using water or solvent extraction. No petrochemical alternative route exists.
In plain English
An antioxidant extract from wheat leaves. It's made by extracting the green leaves of the wheat plant.
CosIng definition: Triticum Aestivum Leaf Extract is an extract obtained from the leaves of the Wheat, Triticum aestivum L., Poaceae
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.
- 2TRITICUM AESTIVUM LEAF EXTRACT. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3TRITICUM AESTIVUM LEAF EXTRACT. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=TRITICUM%20AESTIVUM%20LEAF%20EXTRACT