✓ Extraction – Plant extracts are liquid preparations obtained from fresh or dried medicinal plants by appropriate physical extraction processes; these include the use of appropriate solvents and the use of maceration or permeation or other appropriate procedures. To ensure proper recovery of the substances, the plants must be ground to an appropriate degree of fragmentation, while the choice of solvent depends on the type of active ingredients to be extracted.

✓ Cold pressing – Mechanical extraction process, also known as expression or mechanical separation. Cold pressing helps maintain the integrity and potency of these oils, which offers greater health benefits. As the term implies, “cold pressing” does not involve the external application of heat. This is important because in some plants, high temperatures cause the breakdown of delicate molecules in oils, which can reduce health benefits.

✓ Distillation – An ancient method of extracting active ingredients from plants, and today – highly sophisticated. Most essential oils are produced by steam distillation, but a number of process variations can be used to produce other assets. It retains the characteristics of the extracted substance, so that its biological functions can be transferred to the cosmetic product in which it is used.

✓ Hyperfermentation – For thousands of years, fermentation has provided many crops with the means to transform food, increasing its nutritional value and facilitating its absorption. This millennial know-how, typical of the Mediterranean area, combined with the latest biotechnologies, and in particular the Bioliquidation process, has led to the development of a new production process in which the phytocomplex naturally contained in the plant is enhanced by fermentation, transforming the inert mass in even more active ingredients.