How we scored it
Milled corn kernel meal: starch, protein, fibre and oil all plant-derived. 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
Dominant route is dry milling of cleaned corn kernels to a coarse meal. No common alternative route.
In plain English
Coarse corn flour made by milling dried corn kernels, used as a physical exfoliant, filler and binder. It is a milled plant material with no chemical modification.
CosIng definition: Zea Mays Meal is the coarse flour prepared by milling the kernels of the Corn, Zea mays L., Gramineae
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.
- 2ZEA MAYS KERNEL MEAL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ZEA MAYS KERNEL MEAL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ZEA%20MAYS%20KERNEL%20MEAL