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Bitter Orange Flower Extract
Citrus Aurantium Amara (Bitter Orange) Flower Extract · Citrus Aurantium Amara Flower Extract
An extract of bitter orange flowers. It isn’t the essential oil (neroli).
What it does
It’s an extract of the flowers of the bitter orange tree. The EU lists it as a skin conditioner and refresher. It isn’t the same as neroli, the essential oil from the same flowers.
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 ↗
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2021) assessed 33 ingredients from citrus flowers and leaves, bitter orange flower extract and flower water among them, used mostly for scent or to condition skin. In tests on people, products with up to 0.0225% of the extract didn’t cause allergy. Concerned about oxidized limonene and linalool, they asked makers to keep plant compounds below levels that may cause allergy. They judged all 33 safe as used, in products made not to irritate or cause allergy.Burnett 2021 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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