How we scored it
Aqueous steam distillate of grape fruit — botanical distillate = 1.0 by this site's convention.
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
Vitis Vinifera Fruit Water is produced by steam-distilling grapes and collecting the aqueous condensate. It contains no added synthetic material.
In plain English
A watery distillate captured by steam-distilling grapes. Used as a mild skin-conditioning ingredient, essentially a grape hydrosol carrying trace aromatic and conditioning compounds from the fruit.
CosIng definition: Vitis Vinifera Fruit Water is an aqueous solution of the steam distillate obtained from the fruit of the Grape, Vitis Vinifera L., Vitaceae
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.
- 2VITIS VINIFERA FRUIT WATER. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3VITIS VINIFERA FRUIT WATER. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=VITIS%20VINIFERA%20FRUIT%20WATER