FW: Mandarin oil: dead man walking

[Guest guest]

Hi folks,

 

Now the powers that be want to restrict (or ban) mandarin & petitgrain mandarin

oils (remember when they tried to ban tea tree?).

 

Aren't you glad that with all the REAL dangers in the world (and even in

cosmetics), you're going to be protected from yourself when it comes to the use

of mandarin oil because an isolated component may potentially cause an issue?

 

Yes, I am all for safety, but I am also for simple warning labels that say

things like " do not use if you will be exposed to the sun " . Heck, I usually

don't even wear perfume on my skin anymore .. Most times I spray it onto a

perfume pendant like these: http://www.alittleolfactory.com/jewelry.htm

 

Remember, what goes on in the EU will eventually affect us here in the US in one

way or another. Whether it is an eventual change in our regulations, or

affecting the availability of raw materials, etc ... we will feel it.

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

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Hi all,

 

Latest Opinion from the SCCP (SCCP 1068/06) concerns the photo-sensitising

properties of methyl-N-methyl anthranilate. Mandarin oil, mandarin oil 5X and

10X conc etc. and more especially petitgrain mandarin oil are natural sources.

 

The Opinion basically confirms methyl-N-methyl anthranilate as photo-toxic,

Tests indicated it was photo-toxic at 0.05%. The SCCP recommend that (synthetic

or natural) methyl-N-methyl anthranilate.should not deliberately added as a

fragrance ingredient as such. Up to 0.1% can be used in rinse-off finished

cosmetic products, until more information on possible nitrosamine formation in

the dermis is available (methyl-N-methyl anthranilate.is a secondary amine).

 

......As a perfumery colleague said to me this afternoon " bye-bye mandarin. "

 

Cheers

 

www.cropwatch.org

 

From a second post on the subject:

 

Methyl anthranilate which has an odour sometimes associated with Concord grapes,

is indeed an ester but contains an amino grouping also - so anthranilates are

really 2-aminobenzoates. Nitrogen groups (as amino groupings) can also occur as

nicotinates (in jasmine absolute etc), and as imine groups - and an example is

found in methyl N-methyl anthranilate (sometimes called dimethyl anthranilate).

It is this substance which we are talking about here, which is allegedly

photo-sensitising according to RIFM/IFRA.

 

Petitgrain oils are distilled from the leaves and twigs of citrus trees - thus

we have petitgrain oil mandarinier (from mandarin trees), petitgrain oil

bergamotier (from bergamot trees), petitgrain oil citronnier (from lemon trees -

usually varieties of Citrus medica).

 

Petitgrain oil Paraguay is usually referred to as petitgrain oil itself -

obtained from a naturalised form of the bitter orange tree - distilled from the

leaves and twigs and inevitably some flowers - and contains little/no methyl

N-methyl anthranilate. You will also come across Petitgarin bigarade oil (bitter

orange blossom oil). Neroli oil Paraguay comes from the same source but is

produced from the blossoms (plus inevitably some twigs and leaves) - so remember

neroli oils (Tunisian neroli is the best known) come mainly from the blossoms,

petitgrain oils mainly from the twigs.

 

Anyway, petitgrain oil mandarinier contains quite large amounts of

methyl-N-methyl anthranilate, and I guess we won't be seeing it produced on any

sort of commercial scale any more.

 

All this in much more detail than previously, will be in the next edition of my

book.....