Aloe vera leaf extract and licorice root extract come from different plant tissues and contribute different compound families. Aloe is especially associated with acetylated polysaccharides such...

Glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid are closely related licorice compounds, but one is a glycoside and the other is its aglycone. Glycyrrhizin attaches two glucuronic-acid units to...

Licorice root contains hundreds of compounds, and glycyrrhizin and liquiritin illustrate two major chemical families. Glycyrrhizin is a sweet triterpene saponin built from glycyrrhetinic acid linked...