Thyme Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is common or garden thyme, a low evergreen subshrub of the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to the dry hillsides of the western Mediterranean and grown as a culinary herb worldwide. It forms a woody, spreading mound 15 to 30 cm tall with wiry stems and tiny, grey-green, oval leaves rolled slightly under at the edges, releasing a warm, sharp scent of thymol when brushed. Clusters of small pale pink to lilac two-lipped flowers appear in early summer and are much visited by bees. We extract the dried leaf.