Ingredients
Understanding botanical ingredients
The pillar guide to plant ingredients in body care: what an extract is, and how to make sense of an INCI list.
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Glossary
Botanical extract
An extract made from a plant, identified by the plant and the part used.
On a label it appears as the Latin plant name plus the plant part and 'Extract'.
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