Rose essential oil: uses and properties

In every historical era, amid myths, legends, and traditions, the Rose has consistently shared a special connection with the feminine universe. Presently, gifting a simple rose remains an elegant and undoubtedly appreciated gesture for women, especially if it comes unexpectedly. Notably, various extracts of Rose have been utilized in ancient times for women’s cosmetics, beyond […]

Aromatherapy: history

The term Aromatherapy means the use of essential oils for therapeutic purposes to improve health, heal the body and harmonize the spirit. The sense of smell is the most powerful and instinctive of our senses. Through smell, or perfume, we recognize people, memories, places, essences…. The use of essential oils to harmonize the body, spirit and environment is a very […]

Potato chips with rosemary aromatic water

During the distillation process of an aromatic plant, including domestic distillation, by products are produced besides the essential oil, such as aromatic water (or floral water). Being able to identify good uses for the best use of a product as useful and beneficial as hydrolat is very interesting. The culinary area is certainly among the […]

Aromatic water or floral waters: what are they?

The vapor current distillation is a technique that allows the extraction of essential oils from the plant tissue, through their transport by vapor steam. At the end of this process we always obtain two important products: essential oil and aromatic or floral water. The essential oil is certainly the finest and most used product of the distillation, but […]

How to make homemade essential oils

Essential oils, the set of aromatic substances responsible for the scent of plants, are known and have been used since ancient times.  Over the centuries there is an alternation of glory and oblivion, the latter essentially following the progress of chemistry and synthetic molecules. But already since the 1990s, essential oils have returned to being […]

Essential oils: what are they?

Essential oils are the extracted products of aromatic plants, by distillation or mechanical processes (like cold pressing). More than thirty plant families produce essential oils, which include about ninety species. Essential oils, in general, are composed of more or less volatile molecules, formed of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen atoms. The word “oils” should not mislead, these products have nothing in […]

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