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

Is Valencene natural?

Yes. Valencene is recovered from orange peel oil, a citrus juice byproduct, or produced by fermentation; both are natural-origin routes.

INCI nameValencene
CAS4630-07-3
FunctionSkin Conditioning · Skin Protecting
FeedstockPredominantly recovered by fractional distillation of orange peel…

How we scored it

Sesquiterpene isolated from citrus peel oil (or bio-fermentation); no petrochemical synthesis route is commercially significant.
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

Predominantly recovered by fractional distillation of orange peel oil, a low-cost byproduct of citrus juice production; increasingly also produced by fermentation. No petrochemical synthesis is commercially used, as natural supply is abundant and cheap.

In plain English

A citrusy-smelling compound recovered from orange peel oil left over from juice-making, used in fragrance and as the source material for grapefruit-scented nootkatone. It comes entirely from oranges.

Structure

2D structure of Valencene

PubChem CID 9855795 ↗

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. 2Valencene. PubChem CID 9855795. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3VALENCENE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4VALENCENE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=VALENCENE