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Camellia Sinensis Leaf Water
Camellia Sinensis Leaf Water
Tea leaf water, used as a water base and for scent. Little research tests what it does on skin.
What it does
It’s water that carries some of the tea plant’s leaf compounds, made by steam distilling the leaves.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as a fragrance (adds scent).European Commission, CosIng (© European Union, CC BY 4.0) · uses put in plain words by Drop ↗
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2019) judged tea leaf ingredients, Camellia sinensis leaf water among them, safe as used in products made not to cause allergy. Drinking tea exposes the body to far more than cosmetics do. In a repeat patch test of a mascara with 30% leaf water on 110 people, no one showed irritation or allergy. The reviewers found too little data to judge the tea ingredients not made from the leaf.Becker 2019 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
Also known as
tea leaf water
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