Botanicals & Company
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Plants, ingredients and traditions through science, history and everyday practice.
Botanicals & Company is a growing collection of botanical knowledge, exploring the plants we use, their histories, their chemistry and their place in everyday life.
How the site works
In-depth monographs on a single botanical or ingredient, from chemistry to evidence.
Shorter articles by subject, and usually the easiest way in.
The history and culture behind each plant and ingredient.
Simple, evidence-honest ways to enjoy botanicals in everyday life.
Botanical Kitchen
Tart, floral Key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk and egg yolks, set in a digestive biscuit crust and finished with softly browned piped meringue, made from the egg whites the filling leaves spare.
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The Study
A small, identifiable group of essential oils carries a genuine, well-documented phototoxicity risk, and a single processing decision, expressed versus distilled, changes…
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Lime's safety caution is specifically about skin exposed afterward to sunlight. A shower steamer never touches skin at all, and never needs…
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Florida's official state pie is named after a fruit Florida barely grows any more. The 1926 hurricane that ended commercial Key lime…
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