herbs (and other medications) which contract the tissues that are relaxed and weak, imparting strength and checking hemorrhage. Astringents are sub-divided into mild (moderately contractive), styptic (powerfully contractive) and coagulant (coagulates the blood).

Agents that dry up excess oil on the skin, tightening it temporarily. Usually used in products for oily skin or in skin toners.

Remedies that in contact with tissues of the body cause them to contract and check secretion.

Astringents contract tissue by precipitating proteins and can thus reduce secretions and discharges; they contain tannins.

Products that cause a tightening and contractions of the skin tissues, generally used to tone skin and close pores. Can also arrest heavy bleeding.

Botanicals which cause contraction of the skin tissue: agrimony, alder bark, alum root, avens, bayberry (bark and roots), bearberry leaves, black adler bark, blackberry root, black birch leaves, black cohosh, bugle, costmary, dead nettle, dock, dogwood bark, eucalyptus oil, European birch bark, fluxweed, goldenrod, hawthorn berries, hepatica, hollyberries and leaves, horseheal root, Jacob's ladder, manzanita leaves and fruits, oak bark, periwinkle, pipsissewa, potentilla, scabwort root, Shepherd's purse, smooth sumac seed heads, southernwood, saint John's wort, sweet fern, trailing arbutus, wax myrtle, white birch bark, wintergreen, Witch hazel, and yarrow.

Substances or additives to soap that tighten or close skin pores. The effect makes skin feel smoother.

Herbs causing contraction of tissues.

Agents, usually topical, that cause the contraction of tissues for the control of bleeding or secretions.

a compound that constricts the flow of liquid through tissue. Astringents are sometimes used to make skin less oily.

Makes body tissue contract, and therefore tightens and closes pores in the skin. Can be drying.

a substance that causes tissue to dry and shrink by reducing its ability to absorb water.