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Punica Granatum Extract
Punica Granatum Extract
Whole-plant pomegranate extract, not the fruit extract or the seed oil.
What it does
This older label name means an extract of the whole pomegranate plant. Products list it as an antioxidant and to protect skin.
The EU’s ingredient database lists it as an antioxidant (slows reactions with oxygen, like going rancid).European Commission, CosIng (© European Union, CC BY 4.0) · uses put in plain words by Drop ↗
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2020) judged 9 pomegranate ingredients from the flower, fruit, juice, rind (pericarp) and seed safe as used. For 9 others, Punica granatum extract among them, the data were too thin: they needed how each is made, what it contains and its impurities, its effects in the body, and skin irritation and allergy data. This whole-plant name was dropped from the ingredient dictionary, but it had the most reported uses and may still be in use.Burnett 2020 · Cosmetic Ingredient Review ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
Also known as
whole-plant pomegranate extract
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