Vitamin E
Tocopherol · antioxidant · 0.35% within the 0.5% tocopherol blend
The only line on the label that does not look like a plant, though it came from one.
§ 1 · What it is
Tocopherol is vitamin E, here as a working antioxidant rather than a headline. It slows the botanical oils oxidising in the bottle, which is why an anhydrous formula can stay honest on a shelf without preservatives.
It arrives dissolved in sunflower oil, which is why Sheet 08 exists.
§ 2 · What the number means
0.35%, within the 0.5% tocopherol blend. A job-sized dose: enough to mind the formula, no ambition beyond it.
When a bottle shouts about vitamin E, ask who the antioxidant is for: the formula, or the marketing.
§ 3 · What it does
Antioxidant for the formula. Its client is the oil in the bottle - it slows oxidation so the botanicals stay as pressed.
Unglamorous, necessary, present. The bookkeeping of the formula.
Plant-derived, carried in sunflower oil. Lines 07 and 08 of the label arrive together.
Everything in §3 is sensory or compositional. None of it is a medical claim: none may be made, and none is needed.
§ 4 · What it does not do
Does not erase anything.
Does not fight free radicals on your face. It minds the bottle.
Is not an anti-ageing programme.
Is not glamorous, and knows it.
Every honest formula has a clerk. This is ours.
§ 5 · Where it comes from
It is made, not grown. The sunflower on the next sheet does the growing.
[ Supplier and specification pending certificates of analysis. ]
§ 6 · Words on other bottles
One entry per sheet. The convention is the target; no brand is named, and none needs to be.
“Antioxidants”
In marketing, a promise aimed at your face. In this bottle, a stabiliser aimed at the formula. Same molecule, different client, and a label rarely tells you which one it means. This one just did.