Blog — ingredients

Let’s get to know lemongrass – what is this aromatic ingredient in some delicious curry dishes also doing in some of our favorite Effervesce products? Lemongrass is a tropical, aromatic herb that can grow to be six feet tall and eighteen inches wide! Its thin blades can range from green to blue to gold and you can spot tiny white flowers on the stalk. Certainly not your average grass, not the weed it might appear to be at first glance. And surprisingly despite the pleasant aroma, the plant does not actually contain any lemon or citrus oil! Although when you...

Mud, clay, dirt, earth… words we’re all familiar with, but what actually IS this stuff? That answer gets a bit complicated. Mud, clay, and dirt can all be considered types of earth, and depending on the situation, all three categories can be made of an infinite variety of microscopic particles. These particles are minerals, and the specific combination of minerals depends on what was happening in the environment at the time the minerals were formed. We’re talking millions of years of heat, pressure, organisms, and weather conditions! Luckily for us, the earth is a master of whipping up massive batches of...