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Is Safrole banned in perfume?
IFRA standard: Safrole, Isosafrole and Dihydrosafrole · Category 4, 51st Amendment
Prohibited
IFRA prohibits Safrole in fine fragrance (Category 4, 51st Amendment): it may not be added to a perfume at any level.
Where it arrives inside a natural material, up to 0.01% of the finished perfume is tolerated.
Which materials contain Safrole?
It also arrives inside other materials. The limit is on the total, so the calculator adds every source together. The largest carriers in PerfuMate's catalog, by their typical composition:
| Material | Typical content |
|---|---|
| Mace Essential Oilnatural | 2% |
| Nutmeg CO2 Extractnatural | 2% |
| Nutmeg Essential Oilnatural | 2% |
| Nutmeg (F-TEC) | 0.8% |
| Lotus Storm® (Fraterworks) | 0.0107% |
| Wild Cherry™ (Fraterworks) | 0.0062% |
Shares are the catalog's typical values. A real batch varies with origin and season, and your supplier's analysis (GC-MS or certificate of analysis) is the real figure.
A worked example
A 100 g concentrate, bottled as an eau de parfum at 18%:
| Material | Weighed |
|---|---|
| Mace Essential Oil | 5 g |
| Ethylene Brassylate no IFRA limit | 95 g |
Mace Essential Oil brings 0.018% Safrole to the finished perfume. The standard tolerates up to 0.01% from naturals: 1.8 times the limit. Or keep the formula and bottle it weaker: the highest strength inside every limit is 10%.
Or paste these lines into the calculator:
Mace Essential Oil 5 g Ethylene Brassylate 95 g
Questions
Is Safrole banned in perfume?
Yes. IFRA prohibits it in Category 4 at any level.
Does this limit apply to candles or soap?
No. This is Category 4, fine fragrance on skin. Other products sit in other IFRA categories with other limits, which these pages and the calculator do not cover.