Essential Oil Distillations of The Week

Essential Oil Distillations of The Week

 

 

 

Claude Monet (French, Impressionism, 1840-1926): Rising Tide at Pourville (Marée montante à Pourville), 1882. Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm. Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA.

 

 

I am hoping your weekend was spent staying cool and relaxed, being safe and not forgetting

our companion pets and animals in this heat wave most seem to be experiencing this week.

 

And you  Aromatherapy enthusiasts keep a few essences in mind for dealing with

overheated bodies-  peppermint or spearmint are cooling in sensation, peppermint can be used neat

or in combination with other oils, increasing their efficacy and regulating excesses of essences.

Lavender is healing to skin damage, whether from working or accident, and can

be applied neat to wounds and scrapes. It is helpful to some folks for the bites of

mosquitos and other small insect pests. In combination with peppermint, can be used

in recipes for sunburns, something all of us need to be mindful of in this sweltering heat!

Rosemary is used with these types of things in combination, being very healing topically

itself. Its neutral to warm, so some cooling essence would augment it nicely. And

i always include some Lime or Brouts to freshen these blends, mixing very nicely with them.

 

Something known for ages, for heat rashes ("prickly heat") and other topical irritations

caused by fluxing high enviroment temperatures-  which is a little hard to find, but

authentic White Sandalwood powder, lightly rubbed on the body, like talc. It will amaze

you to feel how effective it is! sometimes Baroo's camphor (Borneol) is added at

1-3% to increase the usefulness of the sandalwood.

 

Now in this weeks essential oil news for The Old Civet Cat- i met some lovely men high

in oregons lush Applegate River area, that were gracious to offer a nice garden's worth

of Lavender and Clary Sage for distillation. I do beleive this was possibly the sweetest

lavender i have ever smelled, surley due to the Organic growing in these sweet

mountains.  And the Clary Sage was equally as captivating, having a deeper and

rounder note than most Clary. I co distilled Frankincense with it, which made it

even more pleasing and desireable. Overall, a productive week. And some joggling

on the formula for Red Hawk was finalized for production and distributions.  If you

may be intrested in being a distributor, do drop me a message so i may send

relevant details and qualifiers.

 

 

 

Be Well!