How we scored it
Refined vegetable oil (triglycerides of linoleic/oleic/palmitic/stearic acids); whole natural oil, NOI 1.0 by rule.
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
Zea mays (corn) oil is obtained by wet-milling corn and refining the extracted oil. It is used whole, with no petrochemical processing step.
In plain English
A vegetable oil pressed from corn kernels, used to condition skin and hair and occasionally as a fragrance carrier or mild emulsifier. Made by wet-milling corn and refining the extracted oil.
CosIng definition: Zea Mays Oil is the refined fixed oil obtained from wet milling of the Corn, Zea mays L., Gramineae. It consists primarily of the glycerides of the fatty acids linoleic, oleic, palmitic and stearic
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 OIL. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3ZEA MAYS OIL. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=ZEA%20MAYS%20OIL