Collection: HUNDRED FLOWERS

Who we are, how we work

In the production of our extracts:
1. We only select drugs that are grown well, or grown in biodynamic/organic companies (certified) or grown spontaneously in places free from chemical-organic pollution, therefore rich in active ingredients.
2. We harvest only in the full balsamic period.
3. We transform the plants promptly, with the sole intention of minimizing any enzymatic degradation which would otherwise risk impoverishing the finished product. This applies both to the transformation of the fresh product and the dried plant.
4. We store the finished product only in adequately sanitized containers and in perfectly suitable places.

In our laboratory we carry out the extraction process using mainly fresh plants. The cleaning and selection of the same is carried out by hand. After mechanical grinding, the maceration of the drugs occurs cold in glass or stainless steel containers. All for a minimum of thirty days in which the plants remain in constant contact with the most commonly used solvents for hundreds of years: alcohol, water, oil, vinegar, honey. The vegetable glycerin that we use for the extraction and conservation of the active ingredients contained in the meristematic tissues does not belong to traditional solvents. At the end of the maceration, the liquid is decanted and what remains of the plant is pressed with a mechanical press, to squeeze out the juice which would otherwise remain soaked in the plant tissues. Then after mixing the two liquids together (decanted and squeezed) the filtering is carried out which takes place with the "gravity" method, pouring them into large funnels equipped with paper filters.
The French Pharmacopoeia, which we follow to canonize our extracts, at this point considers the product ready for use. But you can get more from the plant.

We refer to Western tradition and scrupulous craftsmanship, as we are convinced that, in our case,
a person's eye is worth much more than a machine's sensor, but we act by taking advantage of what is known today about plants, their metabolism and the effect released by the active ingredients on the organism of contemporary man.
With the same amount of attention we also produce some lines of capsules, using powders, dry extracts and essential oils in single or compound form. Also in this case, we guarantee quality by offering only raw materials that meet precise quality criteria.

In the light of the sun, Cento Fiori is a medium. Nature certainly does most of the work.