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Couleurs de Plantes Cutch Tree
- INCI Name
- Acacia Catechu Wood Extract
Couleurs de Plantes Cutch Tree is exported from the middle ages from India to China and Japan, then to Europe under the name of “terra japonica.” The Cutch tree was used for dyeing textile fibbers exposed to weather: fishing nets, boat sails, tarpaulins, tents, and also for leather. Cutch tree contains 55 to 60% of cutch tannins (hence its name), catechins, epicatechins, gallocatechins, epigallocatechins, etc. it also contains flavonols principally quercetin.
Product families
Cosmetic Ingredients — Pigments & Colorants
- Dyes
Cosmetic Ingredients — Vitamins, Extracts & Oils
- Botanical Ingredients & Extracts
Other characteristics
- CI Name
- Natural Brown 3
- Dye Type
- Cosmetic Dyes
- CI Number
- 75250
- Functions
- Dye
- C.I. Name
- Natural Brown 3
- C.I. Number
- 75250
- EINECS Number
- 232-291-7
- Technology
- Cosmetic Ingredients
- Active Component
- Catechins
- Epicatechins
- Epigallocatechin
- Quercetin
- Tannins
- Ingredient Origin
- Natural Origin
- Non-Animal Origin
- Plant Origin
- Cosmetic Ingredients Functions
- Dye
