Also called plant extracts or botanical extracts, the vegetable extracts are the active and useful ingedients extracted from a plant, flower or bark and presented in an easily usable liquid form.

The solvents commonly used to extract these active ingredients are : water, alcohol, propylene glycol, butylene glycol, glycerine.

The solvents chosen depend on the plant and the active ingredients sought as well as the preferred method of you, our client... ieS has the know-how to supply the full range.

ieS uses 10 % of the dried plant at the beginning of the maceration process, or 33% of the fresh plant. These high percentages allow a higher efficiency of the extract.
In order to respect the plant, and to preserve it's active ingredients, ieS has chosen to opt for long macerations (minimum of 12 days for an hydroglycolic extract) at room temperature, rather than forcing the process by heating or using micro-waves.

Our extracts are systematically analysed, including bacteriologic analysis.