Bergamot Coumarins: Photosensitivity & IFRA Restrictions Explained #shorts

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[00:00:00]Now when I say cummerins and bergamont I I don't mean the aroma chemical cumin the hay like tonka bean material that we use in fugeair bergamont's cummerins are a family of cummerin-like molecules that same that that share the same structural backbone as our aroma chemical cumin but they are odorless but they also cause photosensitivity.

[00:00:26]Now this photosensitivity is why untreated bergamont is restricted by ifra. So if you're going to buy a bergamont essential oil and you're going to use a lot of it, get the oil that has in parentheses either BF, which means baptine free, or FCF, which is furumer free or fenocumer 3.