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Satsuma Mandarin Peel Extract
Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract
A satsuma mandarin peel extract. Little research tests what it does on skin.
What it does
Citrus unshiu is the satsuma mandarin, a seedless mandarin grown widely in Japan and Korea.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2021) assessed 47 citrus peel ingredients, used mostly to condition skin, among them sweet orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, Citrus depressa, Citrus unshiu and Citrus junos peel extracts. Compounds in them, including 5-MOP, can make skin react to sunlight. They judged them safe in products made not to cause allergy or irritation, with leave-on products holding no more than 0.0015% (15 ppm) of 5-MOP. The fragrance industry’s limits prevent those reactions, they said.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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