Li-iL GmbH is a family-run company based in Dresden, Germany.

The Li-iL works were originally founded in Dresden in 1910 by businessman Richard Carl Pittlik. Pittlik and his scientific associates had succeeded in demonstrating the medical efficacy of medicinal herbal extracts in bath additives and liniments. Using this knowledge and experience, we have been providing a range of various bodycare products, medicinal baths and medicaments containing plant-based active ingredients ever since. The products we offer are constantly being improved and updated, as you would expect.

As well as medicinal herbal extracts, we at Li-iL also make use of essential oils as active ingredients. These ingredients are capable of improving your health and increasing your physical and mental well-being in a number of different of ways.

Do you find it easy to drift off into a deep, dreamy sleep when the smells of vanilla, chocolate, lemon, rose, lavender or other scents are in the air?

Essential oils are responsible for these fragrances. These oils are found in differing concentrations in various plant parts – in the flowers, the roots, the leaves, the fruit or the bark or peel. They have been used for millennia for medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and religious purposes. In days of yore, the alchemists thought that essential oils were the 'souls of plants', which contained the vitality of those plants in concentrated form.

Aside from the possibility of direct oral ingestion, essential oils can enter the body via the nose and lungs and via the skin. What is particular about ingestion via the nose is that the nose does not only smell the scent, it also passes the scent information directly to a special part of the brain known as the limbic system. The limbic system is where our sensory perceptions are based – this is where likes and aversions, emotions, memories, motivation, sympathy and antipathy are all formed. The limbic system also controls the distribution of endorphins – the body’s own morphine supply. Even though we are often not aware of the fact, smells actually have a decisive influence on our physical and mental well-being.

Alongside medicinal herbal extracts, essential oils are the primary active ingredients in Li-iL products. The selection and combination of these ingredients takes place on the basis of balneological, aromatherapeutic and phytotherapeutic considerations.

Our bodycare products contain only selected natural active ingredients and only the best starting materials. We always prefer to use plant-based ingredients. We reject animal-based ingredients and mineral oils as a matter of principle, and the same applies to animal testing.

The use of test reports, retention samples, batch systems and regular testing using gas chromatography guarantee the purity and the consistent top quality of our products.