How we scored it
Ground wheat bran (seed-coat material); whole botanical solid, 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
Produced by milling and sieving the bran (outer coat) from wheat grains. No alternative synthetic route exists.
In plain English
Ground wheat bran used as a gentle exfoliating particle. It's simply milled from the outer coat of wheat grains.
CosIng definition: Triticum Vulgare Bran is the broken coat material of grains of the Wheat, Triticum vulgare, 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 VULGARE BRAN. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3TRITICUM VULGARE BRAN. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=TRITICUM%20VULGARE%20BRAN