Blue tansy face cream gets talked about a lot in natural skincare world— usually as a selling point on a very expensive product. The oil is vivid blue, which makes for good marketing. But there are real reasons it works, and we want to explain them plainly. What blue tansy face cream actually is Blue tansy (Tanacetum annuum) is a flowering plant from Morocco. The essential oil is extracted by steam distillation and gets its striking blue color from a compound called chamazulene, which forms during that process. Chamazulene is a potent anti-inflammatory — it’s also what gives chamomile oil…