Database/Skin Conditioning/Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Water
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Water natural?

Yes. Distillate water and fruit aroma compounds both come from steam-distilled Vaccinium myrtillus berries.

INCI nameVaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Water
CAS84082-34-8
FunctionSkin Conditioning
FeedstockBy-product hydrosol from steam-distilling bilberry (European blueberry) fruit.…

How we scored it

Aqueous steam distillate of bilberry fruit; water plus trace fruit volatiles = 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

By-product hydrosol from steam-distilling bilberry (European blueberry) fruit. No synthetic route exists for this ingredient.

In plain English

A fruit water made by steam-distilling bilberries, used in skincare as a light conditioning ingredient.

CosIng definition: Vaccinium Myrtillus Fruit Water is the aqueous solution of the steam distillates obtained from the fruit of the Myrtle, Vaccinium myrtillus L., Ericaceae

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. 2VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS FRUIT WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  3. 3VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS FRUIT WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=VACCINIUM%20MYRTILLUS%20FRUIT%20WATER