Sexy Sadie: Ricinus Communis Seed Oil ●
TL;DR. This ingredient is a rich emollient and conditioning oil that adds slip, gloss, cushion, and occlusiveness to skin, lip, and hair formulas. It also helps disperse pigments in color cosmetics and balms.
What does Sexy Sadie: Ricinus Communis Seed Oil do in a cosmetic formula?
This ingredient is a rich emollient and conditioning oil that adds slip, gloss, cushion, and occlusiveness to skin, lip, and hair formulas. It also helps disperse pigments in color cosmetics and balms.
Is Sexy Sadie: Ricinus Communis Seed Oil clean?
From a clean-beauty perspective, it is generally well tolerated and not a common restricted-list ingredient. Refined grades have low residual it-protein content, which helps keep sensitization potential low.
Is Sexy Sadie: Ricinus Communis Seed Oil sustainable?
This material is plant-derived and readily biodegradable, with the main sustainability considerations tied to agricultural practices, land use, and traceable sourcing. It is not associated with environmental persistence concerns typical of many synthetic film-formers.
Is Sexy Sadie: Ricinus Communis Seed Oil COSMOS-approved?
It is permitted under COSMOS-natural and can be used in COSMOS-organic formulas when the grade and sourcing meet the standard. It fits Green Chemistry well through renewable feedstock, biodegradability, and relatively simple extraction and refining pathways.
How does Sexy Sadie: Ricinus Communis Seed Oil work chemically?
Chemically, it is a triglyceride oil dominated by hydroxylated C18:1 fatty acid chains, which explains its unusually high viscosity, polarity, and pigment-wetting behavior compared with many other plant oils. It is commonly used from low single-digit levels for slip and dispersion up to much higher levels in lip products, balms, and hair oils, and it is broadly stable across typical cosmetic pH ranges because it sits in the oil phase.
Last updated 2026-05-14