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Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil in cosmetics: what it is and what it does

Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil is a cosmetic ingredient that stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off. Open Beauty Facts finds it in 154 products, most often toothpastes.

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What does Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil do in a product?

In a cosmetic product, Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil stops the product reacting with oxygen and going off, and adds scent. The EU’s CosIng database lists these jobs for it: antioxidant and perfuming.

antioxidantperfuming

What is Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil?

Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil is the oil distilled from the leaves of the Tea Tree, Melaleuca alternifolia, Myrtaceae.

CAS number
85085-48-9, 8022-72-8, 68647-73-4
EC number
285-377-1
CosIng reference
40048

Which products contain Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil?

Open Beauty Facts finds Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil in the ingredient lists of 154 of the 22,021 products it has a list for, most often toothpastes and shampoos.

  • Toothpastes9
  • Shampoos6

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 50 · France 23 · United Kingdom 12 · Germany 11.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from Open Beauty Facts, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.

On these listsAntioxidants

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Sources

The job, the description and the EU annex entry are CosIng’s; the fragrance allergens are the EU Annex III names Bravoora’s label checker reads; the product counts are Open Beauty Facts’.

  1. European Commission: CosIng cosmetic ingredient database (functions, description, EU annex entry)
  2. Open Beauty Facts: product database, 77,506 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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