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Rosa Centifolia Flower Water
Rosa Centifolia Flower Water
A rose flower water, used mainly to condition skin.
What it does
It’s the water made by steam-distilling the petals of Rosa centifolia, a rose. The EU also lists it for protecting skin. It isn’t rose oil or rose extract.
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 (2023) assessed 12 ingredients from the rose Rosa centifolia, most used to condition skin. Its flower water is made by steam-distilling the petals, and products use up to 0.096% of it. Concerned about citronellol and geraniol in these ingredients, which could cause allergy, they judged 9 of them, the flower water among them, safe as used in products made not to cause allergy.Cosmetic 2023 · Cosmetic Ingredient Review ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
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