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Tea Seed Extract
Camellia Sinensis Seed Extract
An extract of tea plant seeds, not the leaves that make green tea.
What it does
The EU lists it as holding water in skin, conditioning skin and adding scent.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as a fragrance (adds scent) and a humectant (helps hold in moisture).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 safe as used in products made not to cause allergy, but had too little data to judge the tea ingredients not made from the leaf, Camellia sinensis seed extract among them. To judge them, they needed to know how they are made, what is in them and how much products use. For the seed extract, the only data they had was how much products use: up to 0.1% in leave-on products.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.
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