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Plantain (Plantago major) Macerated Oil - Vegetable Oils - Plant extracts

Plantain (Plantago major) Macerated Oil

Product Description

Plantain (Plantago major) Macerated Oil
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Plant description

Latin name: Plantago major
English name: Common Plantain, broad-leaved plantain, whiteman’s foot, rat-tail
Franch name: Plantain majeur, grand plantain, pied du blanc, queue de rat
Family: Plantaginaceae
Origin:  Canada

History and origin

Common plantain is imported from Europe, but other plant species were already growing in America. Native Americans called this plant "whiteman’s foot" because it was often found growing everywhere a white man stepped. Plantain grows in fields, along roads, cracks in the sidewalks, etc. There are around 200 species of plantain around the world and they all have the same medicinal properties.

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Aromatherapy Data Sheet

Used Part : Roots and leaves 
Production method:

Macerated oil obtained by maceration of roots and leaves in organic olive oil.

Oil Characteristics :

Odour: herbal

Appearance: oily liquid

Color: dark yellow to green

Uses

Culinary

Young plantain leaves are edible and filled with chlorophyll. Ground seeds can be added to cakes, muffins, etc.

Skincare

Plantain macerated oils are used to make creams and soaps.

Plantain is effective for all general skin affections.

Documentation and References

Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_plantain

FORTIN, Sylvie, Cosmétiques non toxiques, Les Éditions La Presse

ASSINIWI, Bernard, La médecine des indiens d’Amérique, Collection Nature et mystères /

Guérin littérature

MOERMAN, Daniel E., Native American Ethnobotany, Timber Press

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