Ni’oi ●
TL;DR. This botanical extract is used mainly as a sensory warming and scalp or skin-conditioning agent. It can create a stimulating feel in targeted hair, scalp, body, or massage formulas.
What does Ni’oi do in a cosmetic formula?
This botanical extract is used mainly as a sensory warming and scalp or skin-conditioning agent. It can create a stimulating feel in targeted hair, scalp, body, or massage formulas.
Is Ni’oi clean?
Clean-beauty frameworks generally accept it as a botanical extract, but its naturally pungent constituents can cause warmth, flushing, or stinging on reactive skin or near the eyes. It is a higher-attention botanical because comfort depends strongly on dose and placement in the formula.
Is Ni’oi sustainable?
It is plant-derived, renewable, and expected to be biodegradable as a complex botanical extract. Its sustainability profile depends on farming practices, extraction solvent, and carrier system, with no major persistence or bioaccumulation concern.
Is Ni’oi COSMOS-approved?
It can fit COSMOS-natural or COSMOS-organic when the crop source, carrier, and extraction solvents meet the standard. From a Green Chemistry lens, it aligns best with water, ethanol, or glycerin extraction, minimal purification, and responsible agricultural sourcing.
How does Ni’oi work chemically?
This material is a complex plant fruit extract containing carotenoids, fatty acids, phenolics, and pungent vanillylamide alkaloids that interact with the TRPV1 heat receptor. Typical cosmetic use is low, often around 0.001% to 0.1% depending on extract strength, and color or potency can decline with heat, oxygen, and light.
Last updated 2026-05-16