The Swiss research and development company Alpinia Institute for Life Sciences AG (or Alpinia Institute for short) has been pursuing the study of plants with high therapeutic potential since 2008. The institute houses cutting-edge research and development laboratories and an auditorium for scientific seminars and symposia. At Alpinia Institute, we use millennia-old knowledge to develop extracts from traditional medicinal plants that are then studied and tested in cooperation with other research facilities and universities.

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alpinia Institute, we at Alpinia Laudanum GmbH use the institute’s accumulated pharmacological knowledge to develop natural, plant-based, and effective cosmetics and dietary supplements. Currently, our main ingredients are frankincense extract and acacia gum (also known as gum arabic, the dried exudate of the acacia tree). Both plants have been fixtures in the traditional medicines of many cultures for millennia. People have long known about the positive effects of frankincense and acacia gum on the well-being of the human body. Now, using state-of-the-art research and high-quality natural extracts, we make this old knowledge accessible again in a way that protects natural resources and the earth. Our work is sustainable and fair—to nature as well as to the people who make a living cultivating frankincense and gum arabic.