Black Elder ●
TL;DR. This ingredient is used mainly as a botanical skin-conditioning extract, contributing antioxidant polyphenols and a light soothing, astringent profile in toners, serums, and creams.
What does Black Elder do in a cosmetic formula?
This ingredient is used mainly as a botanical skin-conditioning extract, contributing antioxidant polyphenols and a light soothing, astringent profile in toners, serums, and creams.
Is Black Elder clean?
From a clean-standard lens, it is generally low-friction when preserved well and extracted with accepted solvents, but botanical extracts can carry natural fragrance constituents and batch variability. Patch sensitivity is uncommon but possible in reactive skin.
Is Black Elder sustainable?
It is plant-derived and typically biodegradable, with a relatively light footprint when sourced from cultivated or responsibly gathered material. Impact depends on agricultural inputs, extraction solvent, and concentration because it is often used as a dilute extract.
Is Black Elder COSMOS-approved?
It is generally compatible with COSMOS-natural and COSMOS-organic when produced from approved agricultural raw material using allowed extraction solvents such as water, glycerin, ethanol, or vegetable oils. It fits Green Chemistry best when renewable feedstock, low-temperature extraction, and biodegradable solvent systems are used.
How does Black Elder work chemically?
This material is a complex botanical mixture rather than a single molecule, typically supplying flavonoids, phenolic acids, tannins, sugars, and anthocyanin pigments. It is usually added at low levels as an aqueous, glycerinic, or hydroalcoholic extract, and the polyphenol fraction is more stable in mildly acidic formulas and less stable with high heat, strong oxidizers, or metal contamination.
Last updated 2026-09-01