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Yuzu Fruit Extract
Citrus Junos Fruit Extract
A yuzu fruit extract. Little research tests what it does on skin.
What it does
Yuzu, Citrus junos, is a sour citrus fruit grown mostly in Japan, Korea and China.
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) judged citrus fruit ingredients safe, among them lemon, orange and lime juice, lemon fruit water, and Citrus paradisi (grapefruit), Citrus junos and hydrolyzed orange fruit extracts. Their index treats Citrus tangerina extract as tangerine fruit extract, also judged safe. The conditions: products made not to cause allergy or irritation, and leave-on products holding no more than 0.0015% (15 ppm) of 5-MOP, which can make skin react to sunlight.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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