Soothing Muscle Cream · Cooling

A root native to Kinmen islands, in the Taiwan Strait. Wild-harvested rather than farmed at scale.

Local record traces its use back to the Koxinga era in the 1660s, when soldiers stationed on Kinmen are said to have first turned to the root for relief. It has remained a staple of herbal practice for hundreds of years.

Gathered wild in limited seasonal quantity, with roots typically harvested after three years of growth, in autumn and winter.

Peppermint itself is a European hybrid mint, but the broader mint family has deep roots in Asia — a related mint, Bo He, is a genuine, long-used Chinese herb valued for its cooling character.

Bo He appears frequently in classical Chinese herbal texts as a cooling herb.

Leaves are harvested at peak oil concentration, just before flowering, then distilled.

Originally native to the Mediterranean. Since the 1960s, lavender has also been successfully cultivated in Asia — most notably in Yili, Xinjiang, now one of the world's four major lavender-growing regions alongside Provence and Hokkaido.

Its place in our range reflects a universal association with calm and sleep in modern herbal practice, including the more recent Asian cultivation that's grown alongside global demand.

Flowering stems are cut in mid-to-late summer at peak bloom, then distilled for oil.

Native originally to Australia, Asia is now the world's largest producer of eucalyptus oil by volume (around 70%) — the plant travelled the opposite direction to most of our other ingredients.

Used by Aboriginal Australians for centuries before European settlement. Introduced to Asia in the early 1900s, where it became part of local herbal medicine and oil production.

Leaves are harvested and steam-distilled; oil quality is measured by cineole content.