10Sep

Coffee

Spill the beans, or should we say seeds Did you know that coffee beans aren’t beans at all? They’re actually the seeds of small spherical fruits grown on the Coffea plant, which ripen to a bright red or pink colour. Ex-seed-ingly interesting! What is coffee? The coffee tree...
06Jan

Menthol

Menthol is super refreshing, cleansing and stimulating. What is menthol? Menthol is a white crystalline compound found in all mints, giving the green herbs their refreshing and aromatic properties. What are the benefits of menthol? • Menthol has a distinctly refreshing aroma and taste. • It is said to stimulate...
25Sep

Ginger

Quite popular in kitchens and medicine cabinets for thousands of years, the root is soothing and invigorating and its oil diffuses an incomparable fragrance. What is ginger? Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a plant, and although its flowers and leaves are pleasantly fragrant, it is what lies underground...
16Jun

Pepper

We’re so used to pepper that we tend to forget how precious, fragrant and versatile it is. What is pepper? Piper nigrum, the black pepper plant, is a vine native to southern India that can grow up to 20 meters long (65 feet). Its very small, berry-like...