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Orange Fruit Extract

Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Extract · Citrus Sinensis Fruit Extract · Citrus Sinensis (Orange) Fruit ExtractAntioxidant

Orange flesh and juice extract, not the peel. It adds antioxidants, but there’s little research on it in skin.

What it does

Its antioxidants include vitamin C and hesperidin, but too little vitamin C to do what a vitamin C serum does. Because it skips the peel, it has much less of the peel-oil compounds that can raise sun sensitivity or irritate.

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) assessed 80 citrus fruit ingredients, used mostly for scent or to condition skin, among them lemon, orange, lime, mandarin orange, Citrus grandis, Citrus glauca and two Microcitrus fruit extracts. They judged them safe in rinse-off and leave-on products made not to cause allergy or irritation. Leave-on products must hold no more than 0.0015% (15 ppm) of 5-MOP, which can make skin react to sunlight. 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.

Also known as

sweet orange fruit extract, citrus aurantium dulcis extract, orange extract

Pairs worth knowing

Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) · works together ↗Vitamin E (Tocopherol) · works together ↗

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