Compositions comprising active botanical ingredients

Abstract

Disclosed is a composition comprising a plurality of active botanical ingredients, each predominantly associated with an in-use beneficial effect on an animate or inanimate substrate, where said composition comprises: (i) a first aqueous extract of a material derived from a first plant, said first extract comprising a first amount of a first active botanical ingredient; (ii) a second aqueous extract of a material derived from a second plant whose genus is not the same as the first plant, said second extract comprising a first amount of a second active botanical ingredient; (iii) an additional amount of said first active botanical ingredient; and (iv) an additional amount of said second active botanical ingredient; where each said additional amount is included by spiking said composition or the corresponding aqueous extract selectively with said first and said second active botanical ingredients, such that ratio of said first amount of said first active botanical ingredient to its corresponding additional amount and ratio of said first amount of said second active botanical ingredient to its corresponding additional amount in the composition is from 1:1 to 1:3000 parts by weight, wherein said composition is substantially free of non-aqueous extracts of any material derived from said first or said second plant wherein said first plant isand said first active botanical ingredient is atractylenolide I, II or III and further wherein said second plant isorand said second active botanical ingredient is licochalcone A or glabridin.