Artemisia Absinthium Extract

Artemisia absinthium, or wormwood, is a very common plant with a long history of use as a medicinal plant in traditional medicine.

Artemisia absinthium extract is used in skincare for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and has a cool, pine-like aroma.

The leaves have a very bitter taste and were often used in liqueurs, herbal teas, and other foodstuffs, as well as in the production of absinthe and vermouth. It was traditionally used to get rid of insects, rodents, and parasites.

The name of the genus Artemisia comes from the Greek goddess of hunting, Queen Artemisia, the wife of King Mausolus, who was one of the famous medical and botanical researchers and who built the Mausoleum tomb.

The plant contains essential oil (which is bright green), with camphor and thujone as the main constituents. It gives the extract its strong, pine-like, cool aroma.

Other compounds in the extract include flavonoids and terpenes, which have antioxidant properties. The wormwood extract is known to help with indigestion and inflammatory diseases such as Crohn’s or IBS.