EWG Skin Deep® | What is THYMUS SERPILLUM (WILD THYME) EXTRACT

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Thymus Serpillum (Wild Thyme) Extract

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Other Concerns

Multiple, additive exposure sources (low)

SYNONYMS

● EXTRACT OF THYMUS SERPILLUM

● EXTRACT OF WILD THYME

● MOTHER OF THYME EXTRACT

● THYME EXTRACT MOTHER

● THYME, THYMUS SERPYLLUM, EXT.

● THYMUS SERPILLUM (WILD THYME) EXTRACT

● THYMUS SERPILLUM EXTRACT

● WILD THYME (THYMUS SERPILLUM) EXTRACT

● WILD THYME EXTRACT

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

Thymus Serpillum Extract is an extract of the wild thyme, Thymus serpillum.

Common concerns

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LOW

Cancer
LOW

Allergies & Immunotoxicity
LOW

Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity
LOW

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Ingredient concerns

CONCERNS
DATA SOURCES

Products with this Ingredient

facial moisturizer/treatment	4 products
serums & essences	2 products
mask	2 products
foundation	1 products
body spray	1 products
setting powder/spray	1 products
recreational sunscreen	1 products
around-eye cream	1 products
moisturizer	1 products

Multiple, additive exposure sources

CONCERN	REFERENCE
Used in food or as an additive with limited or no toxicity information available	FDA Everything Added to Food

Data gaps

CONCERN	REFERENCE
0 studies in PubMed science library may include information on the toxicity of this chemical	NLM PubMed

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.
NLM (National Library of Medicine). 2012. PubMed online scientific bibliography data. http://www.pubmed.gov.

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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.

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Hazard score

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Data availability

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