Birch Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Birch (Betula alba, an old collective name for the white birches Betula pendula and Betula pubescens) is a graceful deciduous tree of the birch family, Betulaceae, native to woods, heaths, and bog edges across Europe and northern Asia, from Iceland and the British Isles to Siberia. It grows 15 to 25 meters with a slender trunk whose smooth, papery, chalk-white bark peels in thin horizontal strips and darkens into black fissures at the base. The small, triangular leaves are toothed and turn yellow in autumn, and the flowers are dangling catkins in early spring. The bark owes its white color to crystals of betulin. We extract the dried bark.