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Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Water
Chamomilla Recutita Flower Water · Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Water
Chamomile flower water, added mainly for its soft scent.
What it does
It’s water made from chamomile flowers. It isn’t the same as chamomile extract.
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 (2018) assessed chamomile (Chamomilla recutita) ingredients, used mostly for scent and to condition skin. How much of the compounds that can cause allergy an ingredient holds varies with how the plant was grown and extracted, so they judged them safe in products made not to cause allergy. Patch tests of products with 0.2% to 0.4% chamomile flower extract were negative; with other data, they judged that enough for all 5 flower ingredients, chamomile flower water among them.Johnson 2018 · 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
chamomile flower water
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