Fact: Ever since antiquity it has been known that asses’ milk is good for poor health. It has helped in the case of skin, bronchial and bowel complaints and infertility.

Pliny the Elder, historia naturalis:
„(...) Taken as a drink, it is extremely effective in restoring the failing strength of the sick that can be described as atrophy, and also for fever without a headache. Mixed with water, linseed flour, chaff and bread, it is an excellent poultice for boils." Pliny also mentions asses’ milk as a drink to strengthen the teeth, for painful breasts and colic.

"Asses’ milk was thought to be an antidote according to ancient material theory, which stated that certain materials counteracted the effects of others."

Fact: Asses’ milk has been used in cosmetics as a face pack and bath additive for thousands of years. Indeed, Cleopatra‚s beauty tips did not just make Empress Poppea and Joséphine Bonaparte more beautiful.

Fact: In the Middle Ages doctors and scholars knew that asses’ milk helped the skin and had a beneficial effect on fertility.

Natural scientist Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) wrote in his book about nature: „Pliny says that asses’ milk is very white and it also helps to whiten people, and it also says that Emperor Nero's wife bathed in asses’ milk.”

Doctor J Hartlieb recommends: „The woman should take a ball of wool and place it in asses’ milk for an hour, then tie the wool to her navel while it is still wet and moist and then have marital relations with her husband, and she will soon be pregnant.”

Fact: Nowadays the latest research results prove the tried and tested findings of old.

Fact
• Asses’ milk is the most similar of all to human milk
• Causing fewer allergies than cow’s milk, asses’ milk is suitable for dermatitis sufferers
• In traditional Tibetan medicine asses’ milk is also used

Dioscorides, a Greek physician and pharmacist, praised the cosmetic and prophylactic effect of myrrh, above all after a bath.

Fact: Ginseng is a herb which can adapt itself, which means it has a normalising effect - either stimulating or relaxing as required. An adapting herb generally helps to increase the body’s natural resistance. Ginseng smoothes the skin, activates metabolism, and detoxifies.

Fact: Myrrh was used in ancient times as an ointment and highly valued as an ingredient of consecrated oil. In the scriptures Mary Magdalene was said to have been a myrrh bearer. The aromatic gum resin is anti-inflammatory, disinfects and is astringent.