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Botanical Name: Citrus bergamia Plant Part: Fruit Peel Origin: Italy (Calabria) Processing Method: Cold Pressed Color/Consistency: This particular Bergamot oil is yellowish-green to yellowish-brown with a thin consistency. Product Description: Citrus bergamot is grown in southern Calabria (province of Reggio), southern Italy. One hundred bergamot oranges yield about three ounces (85 g) of bergamot oil. The oil contains extremely large amounts of polyphenols, […]
Botanical Name: Zingiber officinale Extraction Method: Steam Distilled Origin: Sri Lanka Product Description: Ginger organic essential oil is a herbaceous perennial of the Zingiberaceae family which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. The rhizome is gathered when the stalk withers and is immediately scalded, or washed and scraped, to kill it and prevent […]
Botanical Name: Prunus armeniaca Extraction Method: Cold Pressed Processing Type: Unrefined Obtained From: Kernel Origin: Turkey Product Description: Apricot trees are similar in appearance to peach trees. They can grow to 30 m but are generally smaller in orchards. The fleshy fruit encloses a hard nut surrounding a droplet-shaped, reddish-brown seed or pit. Apricot Kernel Carrier Oil is a very popular oil and […]
Botanical Name: Prunus dulcis Extraction Method: Cold Pressed Processing Type: Unrefined Obtained From: Nuts Origin: Morocco Description: Sweet Almond Organic Carrier Oil Tree grows to 10 m tall, the alternate leaves lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, minutely serrate. Flowers solitary, white to pink, actinomorphic, 20–50 mm broad, appearing with or before the foliage. The fruit is oblong and 30–60 mm long, pubescent, the […]
Botanical Name: Heterotheca inuloides Plant Part: Flowers Infused with: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Product Description: There are a number of beneficial compounds found in Arnica, specific helenalin, linoleic acid, palmitic acid, thymol, and various other ethers. This unique mixture gives the plant its powerful and well-known effects. While this plant should never be consumed orally, nor placed directly on […]
Product Description: The anise is an herbaceous plant growing to a height of 3 ft or more. The flowers are white, approximately 3 mm in diameter, and produced in dense umbels. The Aniseed Essential oil comprises compounds like linalool, camphene, b-pinene, a-pinene, cis-anethole, anisaldehyde, trans-anethole, safrole, and acetoanisole. Cautions: Dilute before use; for external use only. May cause skin irritation […]