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Lime Oil
Citrus Aurantifolia Oil · Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Oil
Cold-pressed lime-peel oil. Lime is behind many documented rashes on skin that then sees sun.
What it does
It’s an oil pressed from lime peel. Lime carries furocoumarins, and lime-triggered skin darkening is one of the longest-known forms of this sun reaction. Citrus juice on skin in the sun can do the same. Keep it to night use and off skin that will see sun.
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 consensusBergamot, lemon, lime, bitter orange and parsley contain furocoumarins (psoralens), and so do fig leaves and sap. On skin that then gets sun, these can cause a phototoxic reaction: redness, burning and blisters, then dark marks that can last a year or two. Scented products with such oils can leave dark streaks on the neck, called berloque dermatitis. Avoid them in leave-on products worn by day.Bowers 1999 · American Journal of Contact Dermatitis ↗ Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
Also known as
citrus aurantifolia (lime) peel oil
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