A natural is any material that is harvested, mined, or collected, and which may have subsequently been washed, decolorized, distilled, fractionated, ground, milled, separated, or concentrated, leaving a chemical or chemicals that would be available and detectable in the original source material. It is also the modification of natural material by the action of microorganisms, enzymes, or yeasts to modify or increase the yield of material by this process. Naturally derived materials are defined by the use of a natural raw material as the starting point in a chemical process that produces a new chemical or chemicals that in themselves may not be available in nature or in the starting material. Nature-identical materials are substances that have been synthetically produced, not usually from a natural starting material, in order to produce a material that is identical to that naturally occurring in nature.

Source: Dermatologic, Cosmeceutic and Cosmeticdevelopment - Kenneth A. Walters, Michael S. Roberts

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