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Centella Asiatica Root Extract
Centella Asiatica Root Extract
An extract from the root of centella (gotu kola). Little research tests it on its own.
What it does
It’s an extract of the root of Centella asiatica, also called gotu kola. The EU lists it as a skin conditioner.
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 (2023) judged 9 ingredients from Centella asiatica safe as used, in products made not to cause allergy. Centella asiatica root extract is one, though they had no safety tests on it. They judged it from tests on other centella ingredients, since the root, stem and leaves are alike in makeup. No uses of it had been reported to them. They asked makers to keep plant compounds that could cause allergy below levels that may.Johnson 2023 · 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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