Mugwort is a serious oil with a long folk history and a short list of people who should use it. We distil it ourselves and print the cautions where you will read them.
Mugwort has been woven through European and Asian folk practice for centuries, from dream pillows to seasonal rites, and none of that makes the distilled oil casual.
Distillation concentrates the plant many times over, including its thujone. Most sellers list mugwort beside lavender with no distinction at all, which is how people end up using a restrained perfumery material as though it were a bath oil.
We would rather sell less of it properly. The crop comes from organic growers we buy from directly, the still is ours, and the thujone figure is measured rather than glossed over.
Artemisia vulgaris is the tall, silvery roadside herb that most people have walked past without noticing, with deeply cut leaves that are green above and almost white beneath.
It is the aerial parts we distil: the upper stems, leaf and flowering heads, cut together while the plant is in full growth.
Nothing about it is scarce, which is precisely why the care has to be in the handling rather than in the sourcing.
There is no medical claim on this page. Mugwort's folk record is genuinely interesting and it is not evidence of anything we are entitled to promise.
Treat this as a restrained perfumery and ritual material rather than a general-purpose oil. It is unsuitable for anyone who is pregnant or nursing, unsuitable for children, and unsuitable for anyone with a history of seizures. Dilutions should be very low indeed, well under what you would use elsewhere, and a spot test comes before any wider skin contact.
Diffuse it lightly if at all, and never take it internally. If a batch analyses outside what we consider sellable, it does not get bottled and we go out of stock instead.
We buy the crop rather than the oil. With a material that carries real cautions, having someone else's composition arrive in a drum is not a position we are willing to be in.
The cut material is packed and steamed until spent. What separates smells green and bitter and camphoraceous, with a sage-like edge and a curious sweetness underneath.
The run ends with the plant material. There is no clock involved, and no hour figure for us to quote.
An outside laboratory with no stake in the outcome runs the numbers on every batch, and here the result sets the usage advice rather than decorating it.
Measured batch by batch. The figure is what the cautions on this page are based on.
These place the batch within a chemotype, which varies more in this genus than most.
Confirms vulgaris rather than one of the several Artemisias sold loosely as mugwort.
We will send the thujone figure for whichever lot you hold. Ask on the contact page if that suits you better.
When it was stilled, when it was filled, and the lot tying it to an analysis.
Amber across the whole range, retail sizes and bulk alike.
100% Artemisia vulgaris, undiluted, with nothing softened or blended in.
Organic aerial parts, distilled in our own still, thujone measured independently, and the limits printed where you cannot miss them.
Buy the smallest size.
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