CAS No. Registry Number: 84082-54-2

The ordinary ivy plant is an evergreen climbing plant which grows from 3 to 50 meters and its botanical name is Hedera helix. It has a strong, ligneous stem and sticks to walls and trees by means of its hook roots.

This plant has great anti-fungal, anthelmintic, molluscicidal, antimutagenic as well as cellulite control properties and is included in our Cellumend cream.

Topical applications of ivy-based products are indicated for use in anti-cellulite and weight loss preparations and their emollient and itch-relieving properties are indicated in the use of skincare products. REF 8

In folk remedies the ivy plant has become known as a herbal ingredient in cellulite and anti-fat remedies and treatments.

It has shiny, dark green leaves which are paler on the back and coriaceous, alternate and petiolate. The leaves can be anything from triangular to palmate-lobulate in shape and oval at the flower heads.

The yellow-green flowers blossom from September to October in small spherical umbels. The Ivy calyx has five short teeth welded to the ovary and five light yellow-green petals which are lanceolate and reflexed. The globulous fruit is blue-black and has four or five pink seeds.

This climbing plant is very common in European forests and the parts which are used are the wood and, more importantly, the leaves.