Consumers buying herbal products run into this problem all the time. You see wildly different prices on a 2 oz. Bottle of an herbal extract made by two different companies. And you begin to wonder how you can evaluate comparative value. Rule No. 1: Look for the strength of the extract on the bottle – or on the description of the product on the Company’s website.
What??? The strength of the extract isn’t listed? This is definitely a bad sign. The company selling an herbal extract should definitely make this information available to you the customer. Here are some typical strengths: 1:4 What this means in the case of a liquid extract is that the extract has been produced by adding 4 galllons of solvent (water, alcohol, glycerin) to one gallon of dried plant material (leaves, roots, or bark) to produce the extract.
If the company states that the strength is 1:2, that means that for every 2 gallons of solvent, one gallon of plant material has been added. If a Company’s extract is listed as 1:1 that means for every gallon of liquid solvent, one gallon of plant material has been used. Obviously the 1:1 extract is 4 times as potent as a 1:4 extract. To get the comparative value, multiply the price of 2 oz. Of the 1:4 extract by 4 and compare that to the price of 2 oz. of the 1:1 extract.
Of course, if the company doesn’t tell you the strength of extract, BUYER BEWARE!
Whole World Botanicals’ Royal Break-Stone Liquid Extracts (both Kidney Support and Liver-Gall Bladder Support) are 1:1 in strength.
WWB’s Royal Desmodium Liquid Extracts (Strong Back, Allergy –Lung and Liver) are also 1:1 in strength.
The strength of dry herbal extracts are determined in an entirely different way. This will be explained to our customers in another article on Whole World Botanicals’ website.
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