It’s no secret here that WishGarden Herbs tinctures taste pretty good for an herbal extract. We take tasty tinctures seriously because developing taste buds for medicinal plants can be challenging, yet very rewarding! Tinctures with solvents such as sustainable glycerin and organic alcohol help us capture the best of both optimal taste and the most effective extraction of healthy plant compounds, giving us obtainable and effective remedies to meet the needs of everyday life.
In our continued search for the highest quality ingredients available, we recently switched to using sustainable organic non-palm vegetable glycerin. While sourcing organic, sustainable glycerin comes at a higher price, marketing high-quality, sustainable ingredients that celebrate nature is just as essential to the health benefits these products provide.
What is glycerin?
Glycerol or glycerin has increasingly become a popular ingredient found in supplements, pharmaceuticals and skin care products. It is an odorless, colorless, viscous liquid with a sweet taste non-toxic properties. However, not all glycerins are produced equally; some may come from animals or plants or are even made synthetically. Vegetable glycerin is made from vegetable triglycerides or fats under pressure, temperature or fermentation. While animal glycerin is fat based and comes from tallow or mutton. Here at WishGarden Herbs we prefer vegetable glycerin when making our herbal tinctures. Plant synergy and plant strength is our way!
Glycerin Sustainability
But what about vegetable glycerin? Can it be sustainable? There are no easy answers because not all vegetable glycerin has a regenerative background. Some organizations like it Palm well done Help educate consumers and manufacturers about “conflict glycerin” or unsustainable glycerin that is wreaking havoc in regions where glycerin is harvested in a way that harms local ecosystems and why it is important to use. RSPO certified glycerin when purchasing palm or non-organic glycerine. Unfortunately, plant-based ingredients are gaining popularity worldwide, as is vegetable glycerin and its destructive effects on habitat loss for many species and other social injustices.
WishGarden has been purchasing RSPO-certified glycerin for many years, but we recently started sourcing and purchasing only organically certified glycerine without palm oil. We carefully choose suppliers based on their sustainable practices and commitment to healthy ecosystems for plants, animals and people when growing crops for glycerin production. Organic certification is crucial for gaining consumer trust and building sustainable bridges from suppliers to finished products in supplement islands. Additionally, when sourcing potentially ethically sensitive ingredients like glycerin, obtaining organic and sustainable certifications helps us trace regenerative life cycles from the source farm, to our supplier’s warehouse, to our quality control department, and into our finished products.
Quality is important
To craft herbal tinctures to the highest standards, all WishGarden Herbs ingredients are carefully evaluated through a comprehensive supplier verification process for sustainable practices and quality, certification verifications, internal organoleptic testing of ingredients, and third-party laboratory testing to ensure the best possible guarantee. safety, quality and validity.
During our search for the highest quality organic glycerin, we tested many types of glycerin, ranging from mustard seed to material derived from palm trees. We’ve finally found suppliers of organic, non-palm vegetable glycerin that passed all our tests! We found these resources to be in neutral good taste, sustainable background, credible documentation, and the effectiveness needed to meet our high quality standards. This glycerin is now used for extraction and flavor profile in our herbal tinctures.
Organic flax flower field
Honoring nature
When creating herbal remedies, let’s remember that high-quality, sustainable ingredients that honor nature and our age-old ecological relationship with plants are as important as the health benefits these remedies provide us. Collectively, in our current supplement world, we can choose plants and people over profit, one ingredient at a time.
Lauren Ann Nichols-Sheffler attended the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism and received her certification in Medical Herbalism. She owns it Blue yarrow herbs also known as Herbal Vice, an herbal product company that practices bioregional herbal medicine by growing plants and sourcing locally. Lauren loves educating and advocating for plant sustainability. She is the purchasing and sourcing manager for WishGarden Herbs.
For educational purposes only. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, or to sell any product.
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