Amyris ( Amyris balsamifera ) is a woody-balsamic essential oil from Haiti, highly valued primarily as a natural fixative in perfumery and a nervous soother in aromatherapy. Its main applications...

Blue Tansy ( Tanacetum annuum ) is one of the most distinctive essential oils in natural cosmetics, and not just for its cobalt blue color. Chamazulene, responsible for this color, is also the...

Few cosmetic ingredients carry with them a history as ancient and dense as Myrrh ( Commiphora myrrha ). Its resin, the tears that the thorny tree sheds when its bark is cut, was a currency of...

Pink Pepper ( Schinus molle ) is not pepper in the botanical sense of the word; it belongs to the Anacardiaceae family (related to pistachio and cashew), not to the black pepper family. The Incas...