Bilberry Extract
A bilberry fruit extract. The few skin studies used bilberry leaf or seed oil instead, and the one fruit trial was of a pill.
What it does
It’s an extract of bilberry, a relative of the blueberry. A cream study in people used bilberry leaf extract and seed oil, not the fruit. The trial of a fruit extract tested a supplement taken by mouth, run with the company that makes it. So what the fruit extract does on skin is largely untested.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as a skin conditioner, its general term for an ingredient that keeps skin in good condition.European Commission, CosIng (© European Union, CC BY 4.0) · uses put in plain words by Drop ↗
Also known as
vaccinium myrtillus
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