Arnica is listed in the Red Book. It grows wild in forest meadows, edges, glades of coniferous and beech forests, among shrubs mainly in the Carpathians, as well as in the dry meadows of the Upper Dnieper, Belarus, and the Baltic countries. Currently, three species of arnica Arnica mountain, arnica Chamisso and arnica densely deciduous…
Pineapples are species of herbaceous plant with spiny stems and leaves, growing on the lands of the Native American tribes of Central America. Pineapples in Native American legends are magical, medicinal plants. At the same time, in the legends you can find several strange, in our Russian opinion, plots. So among the Kogi Indians, the…
A well-known houseplant has a large number of species, in the collections of botanical gardens at the same time all types of aloe are not represented. Various types of aloe are divided into shrubby and arboreal. Aloe juices are known for their medicinal properties, and each species is unique in this sense. Aloe Vera is…
In 2011, Rospotrebnadzor included cereal and swamp calamus in the list of plants containing potent, narcotic or poisonous substances (changes were made to SanPiN "Hygienic requirements for the safety and nutritional value of food products", partially overlapping the use of calamus in the food industry, but the grass known in different eras to most peoples…
A perennial plant with basal juicy thick green or green-variegated large leaves. There are about 300 species in the genus. Basically (with rare exceptions) it is a plant with fleshy succulent leaves collected in a root rosette. Along the edges of the leaves are thorns. The leaf blade ends with an awl-shaped solid tip. In…
Even the Aztecs cultivated the fast-growing ahuacatl tree – forest oil, in English it entered as an alligator pear. Reasonably, the fruits with their shape resemble a pear from the skin of a crocodile, from them an amazing oil is obtained. However, leaves up to 20 cm long and nondescript flowers do not attract people's…
One of the most expensive components of perfumery is found in the esophagus of the sperm whale, it is carried ashore by the sea in fecal aromas. Pieces of ambergris can reach several hundred kilograms. The sun and the sea work wonders and instead of the smell corresponding to the esophagus, the loose mass acquires…
As an agricultural crop is already known to the Egyptians. They, followed by the Greeks and Romans, loved to use it to flavor drinks and as a condiment, the priests used anise stars in their incense. It is believed that white umbrellas of small flowers appeared in the Mediterranean, and from there spread around the…
Your friends and relatives already recognize you as a great soap maker, when they are ready to grab your products, not letting it freeze, their reviews on how to wash, how to velvet and rejoice in the skin, how butterflies sit on their hands in search of nectar, emitting such an amazing aroma, you have…
"it is necessary to wash in the mornings and evenings, and not to wash the chimney sweeps … " – Curious thing, it turns out you can wash with oil. Ordinary vegetable. At the first moment, it seems somewhat doubtful to fill all the pores of dirty (not washed) skin with fat. You should get…
