How we scored it
Expressed plant juice: 1.00.
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
Yucca schidigera fruit is crushed and the juice pressed out, then filtered or stabilised. No alternative route exists.
In plain English
Juice pressed from the fruit of the Mojave yucca, a desert plant, and added to skin-care products as a conditioning plant ingredient. Everything in it comes from the fruit.
CosIng definition: Yucca Schidigera Fruit Juice is the juice expressed from the fruit of the Small Soap Weed, Yucca schidigera, Liliaceae
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.
- 2YUCCA SCHIDIGERA FRUIT JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3YUCCA SCHIDIGERA FRUIT JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=YUCCA%20SCHIDIGERA%20FRUIT%20JUICE