Rosemary extract: Anhydrous products

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Rosemary extract offers anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, which makes it perfect for anhydrous balms, unguents, and ointments. Because we will be looking at anhydrous products, we can’t use rosemary hydrosol without some kind of emulsifier, and the powdered extract will be a little harder to include. For the most part, if you want to use...

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Rosemary extract: Hair care products

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Rosemary is a good addition to hair care products, what with the claims of increased blood circulation and the ability to form a thin oily barrier on your skin or scalp, and with the claims rosemary can control sebum production. So let’s make a few hair care products that might be useful for someone with...

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Rosemary extract: Which extract is right for which product?

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Which kind of rosemary extract should you seek? The goodness of rosemary is offered to us in many different ways – deodorized, bleached, hexane, methane, or acetone extracted. For the best levels of carnosic acid, choose hexane extracted. For the best levels of carnosol, acetone extracted is your choice. And for the best levels of...

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Rosemary extract

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Rosemary extract has a lot going for it and you can find it as an essential oil, an oil, a liquid extract, and a powdered extract. Let’s take a look at the liquid and powdered extract (the essential oil post will come one day!). The extract we’re taking a look at today is water soluble...

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Polyphenols: Quercetin and rutin (updated)

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Quercetin and rutin are chemically similar flavonoids found in our oils and extracts – rutin contains a glucose molecule in the space held in quercertin by a hydrogen atom. QUERCETIN Quercetin is an anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and (possible) anti-viral found in a number of different fruits and vegetables – apples, tea, onion, citrus, tomato, broccoli, cherry,...

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