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Mandarin Orange Oil
Citrus Nobilis (Mandarin Orange) Peel Oil · Citrus Reticulata Peel Oil · Citrus Nobilis Peel Oil
A soft, sweet citrus scent from mandarin peel. Citrus peel oils can have compounds that make skin more sensitive to sun.
What it does
It’s there for its soft, sweet citrus scent. Like other oils pressed from citrus peel, it can contain compounds that make skin more sensitive to sun. It’s pressed from mandarin peel.
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 (2019) assessed 14 citrus peel oils, used mostly for scent or to condition skin; their list names mandarin orange and tangerine peel oils. Compounds in these oils, 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. Keeping to the fragrance industry’s limits prevents those reactions, they said.Burnett 2019 · 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
mandarin oil, citrus nobilis oil
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