Description
Orris Root Powder (Iris germanica), produced from carefully selected Grade A orris roots that are naturally dried and finely milled to preserve their natural aroma, texture, and botanical properties. Our Orris Root Powder is 100% pure, containing no artificial colours, preservatives, fillers, or additives, making it an excellent choice for cosmetic, botanical, and craft applications.
Orris Root Powder is highly valued for its delicate floral fragrance and versatility. It is widely used in natural perfumes, potpourri, incense blends, soaps, candles, bath products, and DIY skincare formulations. Thanks to its fine texture, Orris Root Powder blends easily with other botanical ingredients, making it a favourite among herbalists, soap makers, candle makers, and artisan crafters.
Every batch of Orris Root Powder is carefully processed and packed to maintain freshness and premium quality. Whether you’re creating handmade cosmetics, botanical crafts, or natural home fragrance products, our premium powder delivers excellent consistency and reliable performance.
Our Orris Root Powder is suitable for DIY enthusiasts, small businesses, and professional formulators looking for a premium botanical ingredient with outstanding purity and quality.
Orris is the root of the iris, a beautiful, blooming flower species that grows across widely across the world. The root is taken specifically from the Iris Pallida and Iris Germanica plants. A lot of work goes into harvesting orris ; after three to four years of growth, the roots are dug up and left to dry for many years, before being ground to powder.
In the past, orris root has been used medicinally, in snuff and chewed to cover bad breath. In modern times, we use it as a fixative in potpourri and in many perfumes. Orris root is used to flavor gins such as Bombay Sapphire and Magellan.
Health & Beauty
Orris root is used for blood -purifying, gland-stimulating, increasing kidney activity, stimulating appetite and digestion, and increasing bile flow. It is also used for headache, toothache, muscle and joint pain, migraine, constipation, bloating, diabetes, and skin diseases. Orris Root powders is added to peeling creams and as exfoliating grains to soaps. Orris Root powder can be used as it is for a tooth powder or added to toothpaste recipes.
Arts & Crafts
Orris Root powders is added to peeling creams and as exfoliating grains to soaps. Orris Root powder can be used as it is for a tooth powder or added to toothpaste recipes.
Brewing & Distilling
In gin, orris is a base note binding and stabilising the other flavours and manifests as an earthy, woody, sweet, flowery aroma similar to violets or raspberries. It is used in gins such as Bombay Sapphire and Magellan.
Flowers & Fragrances
Orris root powder is used in potpourri and perfume making to prolong the fragrance. Dripping essential oil onto orris root powder to fix the fragrance of potpourri.
Kindly note photographs and related text details are for illustrative example only. Being natural products the actual colour, shape, size, origin and shelf life may vary from that displayed. Mimea makes no warranty as to the suitability of any material for any particular use.
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