Passion Flower
Part of our Ingredient Glossary — educational information about raw materials we may use in our products. We don't sell raw ingredients.
This is part of our Ingredient Glossary, where we explain what goes into our products and why. We do not sell raw ingredients.
Passion flower has one of those names that sounds like marketing invented it. It didn't. Spanish missionaries named it in the 1500s because they saw religious symbolism in the flower's structure. The indigenous peoples of the Americas had been using it for its calming properties long before that.
What makes it work: flavonoids, particularly one called chrysin, that interact with the same brain receptors targeted by anti-anxiety medications. Much gentler, obviously, but the mechanism is real. This isn't wishful thinking dressed up in botanical language. Passion flower has actual research behind it.
We use dried passion flower in our Relax Herbal Tub Tea, where it's the ingredient that earns the name. The lavender and chamomile are lovely, but passion flower is why this blend is called "Relax" and not just "Floral." It brings a depth to the calming effect that the gentler herbs can't match on their own.
You can see it in the blend, too. Those distinctive tendrils and the complex flower structure make passion flower visually interesting in a way that sets it apart from the lavender buds and chamomile. It looks like it means business. Because it does.
