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Sweet Orange Peel Extract
Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Extract · Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Extract
An extract of orange peel, not the juice or the essential oil.
What it does
The EU lists several jobs for it: scent, conditioning skin, thickening a formula, helping powders hold together and keeping oil and water mixed. Sweet orange oil, pressed from the same peel, is a separate ingredient.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as a fragrance (adds scent), a thickener (controls how thick the product is) and a stabilizer (helps oil and water stay mixed).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 47 citrus peel ingredients, sweet orange peel extract among them, used mostly to condition skin. 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. Keeping to the fragrance industry’s limits prevents 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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