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Thymus Vulgaris (Common Thyme) Oil

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SYNONYMS

● COMMON THYME ESSENTIAL OIL
● COMMON THYME OIL
● OIL (THYMUS VULGARIS L.) THYME, WHITE
● OIL THYMUS VULGARIS OR ZYGUS; RED THYME OIL; THYME ABSOLUTE; THYME ABSOLUTE; THYME, ABSOLUTE; THYME OIL; THYME OIL RED; THYME OIL, WHITE; THYME RED OIL; THYME WHITE; WHITE THYME OIL
● OILS, THYME
● THYME OIL
● THYME OIL(THYMUS VULGARIS L.)
● THYME OILS
● THYME, WHITE, OIL (THYMUS VULGARIS L.)
● THYMUS VULGARIS (COMMON THYME) ESSENTIAL OIL
● THYMUS VULGARIS (COMMON THYME) OIL
● THYMUS VULGARIS ESSENTIAL OIL
● THYMUS VULGARIS OIL
● WHITE OIL (THYMUS VULGARIS L.) THYME

Restricted

Restricted: EWG VERIFIED products cannot contain this ingredient without adequate substantiation

Thymus Vulgaris (Thyme) Oil is a volatile oil obtained from the leaves and flowers of Thymus vulgaris.

Common concerns

See how this product scores for common concerns.

  • LOW
    Cancer
  • LOW
    Allergies & Immunotoxicity
  • LOW
    Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity
  • LOW
    Use Restrictions

Ingredient concerns

  • CONCERNS
  • DATA SOURCES

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Allergies/immunotoxicity

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Limited evidence of any toxicity or allergiesOpen scientific literature

Data gaps

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CONCERN REFERENCE
519 studies in PubMed science library may include information on the toxicity of this chemicalNLM PubMed

Ecotoxicology

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Not suspected to be an environmental toxinEnvironment Canada Domestic Substance List

Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Classified as not expected to be potentially toxic or harmfulEnvironment Canada Domestic Substance List

Multiple, additive exposure sources

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Designated as safe for general or specific, limited use in foodFDA Everything Added to Food
  • Open scientific/peer reviewed literature
  • NLM (National Library of Medicine). 2012. PubMed online scientific bibliography data. http://www.pubmed.gov.
  • EC (Environment Canada). 2008. Domestic Substances List Categorization. Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) Environmental Registry.
  • FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). 2008. EAFUS [Everything Added to Food]: A Food Additive Database. FDA Office of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

Understanding scores

Cosmetics and personal care products are not required to be tested for safety before being allowed on the market. The Skin Deep® scoring system was designed to help the public understand whether a product is safe to use or whether it contains ingredients of concern.

Every product and ingredient in Skin Deep gets a two-part score – one for hazard and one for data availability. The safest products score well by both measures, with a low hazard rating and a fair or better data availability rating.

HOW WE DETERMINE SCORES

Hazard score

The Skin Deep ingredient hazard score, from 1 to 10, reflects known and suspected hazards linked to the ingredients. The EWG VERIFIED® mark means a product meets EWG’s strictest criteria for transparency and health.

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WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE APPROACH

A product’s hazard score is not an average of the ingredients’ hazard scores. It is calculated using a weight-of-evidence approach that factors in all of the hazards or health impacts associated with the ingredients.

Data availability

The Skin Deep data availability rating reflects the number of scientific studies about the product or ingredient in the published scientific literature.

NONE LIMITED FAIR GOOD ROBUST
Low Availability
Moderate Availability
High Availability
NONE

Ingredients have not been assessed.

LIMITED-FAIR

There is only a modest volume of research.

GOOD-ROBUST

Ingredients have been studied extensively.

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