Rootévia Formula Transparency

This page is the complete ingredient list for the Rootévia Scalp & Root Nourishing Oil — every ingredient, in the exact order it appears on the bottle, biggest first. Nothing is tucked into a "proprietary blend" and nothing has been renamed to sound prettier. If you came here to check what you'd actually be putting on your scalp, the table below is the whole answer.

The full INCI, biggest first

INCI is the standardized naming system for cosmetic ingredients — the Latin-and-chemistry names printed on cosmetic labels worldwide. Here is ours, in label order:

Every ingredient also has its own page if one line isn't enough. A good place to start is wheat germ oil, the biggest botanical in the bottle.

Why the list runs biggest first

It's not our idea — it's labeling law. U.S. cosmetic rules require ingredients to be listed in descending order of predominance: whatever the bottle contains most of comes first, and so on down the list. (Ingredients present at very low levels may be listed in any order at the end — worth knowing when you read any label, not just ours.)

That means the first few lines of any ingredient list tell you what you're mostly buying. We built the brand around that fact: the label is the marketing. If the order embarrassed us, we'd be writing a different page. If you want to get fluent at reading labels this way, we wrote a short guide on how to read the formula.

Why the first two ingredients aren't botanicals

Our positioning line is "Seven Botanicals in a conditioning base," and we chose those words carefully. The two biggest ingredients — ethylhexyl palmitate and caprylic/capric triglyceride — are not botanicals. They're conditioning-base cosmetic esters: they carry the seven botanicals and spread them where you place the drops.

That would be an easy fact to bury. We lead with it, because a base is not filler — it's the delivery system, and implying a bottle is 100% botanicals when the label says otherwise is exactly the kind of thing this page exists to prevent. It's also why we count the botanicals and name the base separately, instead of implying the bottle is botanicals top to bottom. The full story of the blend is on the Seven Botanicals overview.

Where are the percentages?

Not on this page — and we'd rather say so plainly than pretend you didn't ask. We publish what we can stand behind: the order above is accurate, wheat germ oil is the largest botanical, and castor seed oil appears in a small amount. An honest order beats an unverified number.

What's not in the bottle

• No added fragrance. The faint warmth you smell is the ginger root oil, nothing else.
• No dyes. The color is just the color of the oils.
• No silicones. The nine ingredients above are the entire formula.

One genuine warning, not fine print: the formula contains wheat germ oil. If you have a wheat allergy, this is not the oil for you.

Who makes it, and who sells it

The oil is made in China, in a facility certified to GMP and ISO 22716 — the international standard for cosmetic manufacturing practice. It's sold by PrimeSeller 247 Inc of Cordova, Tennessee. Each bottle is 1.0 fl oz / 30 mL of leave-in scalp oil in a glass dropper bottle — roughly 600 drops, which at 3–5 drops once a day lasts months.

What this list does — and doesn't — promise

An ingredient list tells you what's inside. It doesn't entitle us to every claim the internet makes about those ingredients. So, plainly: this is a cosmetic oil. It nourishes the scalp, brings moisture to a dry-feeling scalp, conditions and softens hair, and adds a natural-looking shine. That is the complete list of claims.

People often search whether castor seed oil grows hair — it's one of the internet's most persistent pieces of oil folklore. We use it as a conditioning oil, and we make no growth claims for it or for anything else in this bottle. If a claim isn't on this page, we're not making it. For a fuller picture of what a cosmetic oil can and can't honestly promise, read our page on realistic cosmetic expectations.

That's the whole formula — reviewed top to bottom, biggest first. It's a cosmetic scalp oil and should be judged as one: over weeks of a two-minute ritual, on how your scalp feels and how your hair looks. And if you try it and it isn't for you, you have 60 days from delivery to return it — opened bottle included.