How we scored it
Ground dried adzuki bean seeds; unmodified botanical powder. 1.0 per this site's convention for powders.
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
Vigna Angularis Seed Powder is made by drying and grinding adzuki beans. It is a physically processed whole-seed powder, not chemically altered.
In plain English
A fine powder made from ground, dried adzuki beans, used as a gentle exfoliant to buff away dead skin cells. It is simply the whole bean, dried and milled.
CosIng definition: Vigna Angularis Seed Powder is the powder obtained from the dried, ground seeds of Vigna angularis.
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.
- 2VIGNA ANGULARIS SEED POWDER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3VIGNA ANGULARIS SEED POWDER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=VIGNA%20ANGULARIS%20SEED%20POWDER