Essential oils

Laurel Bay

Laurus nobilis

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Much more well-known in ancient times, where wreaths crowned victors, and in cuisine, where it forms part of the bouquet garni, bay produces a remarkable essential oil that remains too little-used in aromatherapy. Native to the Mediterranean basin, this tree has a smooth, dark grey bark and leaves that are a dark shiny green on top and paler on the underside.

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Lemon

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Native to India and cultivated in southern Europe and California, lemon is one of the most useful fruits in natural medicine. The essence is obtained by cold expression of the outer part of the rind of the fruit. It takes about 3,000 lemons to make 1 kg of gasoline. Its properties are so many and multiple that it is used systematically and with real success for endless conditions. The gasoline neutralizes Eberth's bacillus and staphylococcus in 5 minutes, Loeffer's bacillus (diphtheria) in 20 minutes.

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Lemon

Citrus limon

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Native to India and cultivated in the south of Europe and California, lemon is one of the most useful fruits in natural medicine. The essence is obtained by cold expression of the external part of the fruit peel. Around 3,000 lemons are needed to obtain 1 kg of essence. It has so many properties that it is systematically used, with real success, in a large number of ailments. The essence neutralises Eberth bacilli and staphylococcus in 5 minutes, and Loeffler bacilli (diphtheria) in 20 minutes.

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Mastic

Pistacia lentiscus

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Morrocan oregano

Origanum compactum

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Native to North Africa, this aromatic plant thrives on thin soil on a sunny mountainous slope. Its dark green, spicy-tasting leaves are oval and pointed, and its flowers are found in compact, scented pinkish purple inflorescences.

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Morrocan oregano

Origanum compactum

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Native to North Africa, this aromatic plant thrives on thin soil on a sunny mountainous slope. Its dark green, spicy-tasting leaves are oval and pointed, and its flowers are found in compact, scented pinkish purple inflorescences.

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Niaouli

Melaleuca quinquenervia

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Niaouli provides an essential oil remarkable for its efficacy and tolerance, and formerly known as gomenol. Like true lavender, it is considered a panacea because of its wide range of indications. The multiple results obtained through its use allows it to be classified among the top 10 essential oils used by the informed consumer.

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Niaouli

Melaleuca quinquenervia

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Niaouli provides an essential oil remarkable for its efficacy and tolerance, and formerly known as gomenol. Like true lavender, it is considered a panacea because of its wide range of indications. The multiple results obtained through its use allows it to be classified among the top 10 essential oils used by the informed consumer.

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Palmarosa

Cymbopogon martinii var. motia

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"This grass of Indian origin has long, narrow leaves and linear inflorescences. With its very pleasant fragrance, this essential oil is ideal for all fungal, scarring and eczematous skin ailments. Definitely one of the 10 major essential oils."

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Palmarosa

Cymbopogon martinii var. motia

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"This grass of Indian origin has long, narrow leaves and linear inflorescences. With its very pleasant fragrance, this essential oil is ideal for all fungal, scarring and eczematous skin ailments. Definitely one of the 10 major essential oils."

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Patchouli

Pogostemon cablin

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Patchouli, native to Indonesia, is much better-known and more widely used in perfumery than aromatherapy, but nevertheless possesses many excellent therapeutic properties for lymphatic and venous circulation.

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Patchouli

Pogostemon cablin

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Patchouli, native to Indonesia, is much better-known and more widely used in perfumery than aromatherapy, but nevertheless possesses many excellent therapeutic properties for lymphatic and venous circulation.

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Peppermint

Mentha x piperita

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"A hybrid of Mentha aquatica and Mentha spicata, peppermint is an 80-cm perennial plant. It has quadrangular stems and oval, sharp dentate leaves opposite each other. It likes cool, clay and limy soils. Distillation takes place in June, just before the plants bloom."

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Peppermint

Mentha x piperita

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A hybrid of Mentha aquatica and Mentha spicata, peppermint is an 80-cm perennial plant. It has quadrangular stems and oval, sharp dentate leaves opposite each other. It likes cool, clay and limy soils. Distillation takes place in June, just before the plants bloom.

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Petitgrain

Citrus aurantium ssp amara

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"Native to China, bitter orange spread under the Mediterranean climate. Bitter orange or bigarade provides an essential oil with a very pleasant odour. Simply inhaling this oil brings calm, relaxation and harmony, explaining its obvious usefulness for air diffusion in places where stress management is a real need."

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Petitgrain

Citrus aurantium ssp amara

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"Native to China, bitter orange spread under the Mediterranean climate. Bitter orange or bigarade provides an essential oil with a very pleasant odour. Simply inhaling this oil brings calm, relaxation and harmony, explaining its obvious usefulness for air diffusion in places where stress management is a real need."

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Roman chamomille

Chamaemelum nobile

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In the light, sandy soil of Western Europe, this perennial has feathery leaves, and flower heads made up of white, sparse, tube-shaped flowers with yellow centres inserted on a conical receptacle and yellowish ribbed achenes.

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Roman chamomille

Chamaemelum nobile

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In the light, sandy soil of Western Europe, this perennial has feathery leaves, and flower heads made up of white, sparse, tube-shaped flowers with yellow centres inserted on a conical receptacle and yellowish ribbed achenes.

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Rosemary ct verbenone

Rosmarinus officinalis

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"Rosemary is a vigorous perennial plant with grey-green, needle-shaped leaves and whitish to blue flowers. It thrives in a marine climate. Its geographic origin determines its biochemical composition to a large extent."

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Savory thyme

Thymus satureioides

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Native to North Africa, this plant grows on stony, rather arid soil. Thyme is the prime example of a plant species that illustrates the concept of chemotype. There are several chemical races of thyme, and the chemical composition of the essential oil varies according to the biotope in which it grows. The factors influencing the composition, and thus the therapeutic activity, are amount of sunlight, altitude, soil type, air purity, etc.

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Savory thyme

Thymus satureioides

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Native to North Africa, this plant grows on stony, rather arid soil. Thyme is the prime example of a plant species that illustrates the concept of chemotype. There are several chemical races of thyme, and the chemical composition of the essential oil varies according to the biotope in which it grows. The factors influencing the composition, and thus the therapeutic activity, are amount of sunlight, altitude, soil type, air purity, etc.

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Scots pine

Pinus sylvestris

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The Scots pine provides an essential oil long familiar to our grandparents, who in earlier days already enjoyed its healing action on the bronchi through the inhalation of this essential oil in Nordic climats. It thrives in the mountains and sandy or gravelly soils. Scots pine has purplish-grey bark, acicular, robust leaves, yellow male and red female flowers, and a green ovoid cone that turns brown when mature.

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Scots pine

Pinus sylvestris

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The Scots pine provides an essential oil long familiar to our grandparents, who in earlier days already enjoyed its healing action on the bronchi through the inhalation of this essential oil in Nordic climats. It thrives in the mountains and sandy or gravelly soils. Scots pine has purplish-grey bark, acicular, robust leaves, yellow male and red female flowers, and a green ovoid cone that turns brown when mature.

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Sweet orange

Citrus sinensis

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Native to to the Mediterranean bassin and tropical regions, the fruit of the Citrus sinensis is called 'sweet orange' in order to make the distinction from the 'bitter orange' (Citrus aurantium). The birthplace of this orange tree is found between the Himalaya and Southern China. Around the year 1400, Portugese have imported it. Since then, the culture has spread considerably overdifferent countries. The sweet orange tree, a small tree belonging to the Rutacees family, is an old hybrid, stemming probably from a crossbreeding of the Citrus maxima and Citrus reticulata.

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Tangerine (Manderine)

Citrus reticulata

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This little tree persistent and shiny leaves has white fragrant flowers and orange coloured fruit. Native to China, the mandarin was named after the Chinese mandarins to whom it was trditionally offered as a present. The relaxing and soothig effect and the much appreciated fragrance of the mandarin essence make it one of the most suited anti-stress aromas.

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Tea-tree

Melaleuca alternifolia

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Tea tree is an essential oil that no longer needs to prove itself ! It is found in a very large number of washing (soap, shampoo, bath oil) and cosmetic products. In addition to these applications, it is rightly considered a reliable element of medical and family aromatherapy. Today, enormous demand for tea tree has led to the establishment of plantations that extend over thousands of hectares in Australia.

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Tea-tree

Melaleuca alternifolia

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Tea tree is an essential oil that no longer needs to prove itself ! It is found in a very large number of washing (soap, shampoo, bath oil) and cosmetic products. In addition to these applications, it is rightly considered a reliable element of medical and family aromatherapy. Today, enormous demand for tea tree has led to the establishment of plantations that extend over thousands of hectares in Australia.

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Thyme ct linalol

Thymus vulgaris

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Thymus is a genus of the Lamiaceae family which includes more than 300 species. They are plants, rich in essential oils, creeping or in cushion bearing small pale pink or white flowers. Thyme linalool can form homogeneous populations at small sites. In all these cases, the habitat is located at medium altitude, between 500 and 1000 meters and characterized by less intense sunshine, lower temperature and higher air humidity than in the plain. However, this thyme can grow under very different ecological conditions.

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Thyme ct linalol

Thymus vulgaris

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Thymus is a genus of the Lamiaceae family which includes more than 300 species. They are plants, rich in essential oils, creeping or in cushion bearing small pale pink or white flowers. Thyme linalool can form homogeneous populations at small sites. In all these cases, the habitat is located at medium altitude, between 500 and 1000 meters and characterized by less intense sunshine, lower temperature and higher air humidity than in the plain. However, this thyme can grow under very different ecological conditions.

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Thyme ct thujanol

Thymus vulgaris

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"This is a small corky bush, which can reach 40 cm in height. It has small curved leafs, deep green coloured on the edge, which are hairy and twined. The chemical polymorphism of the vulgar thyme has been initiated by Granger and al. in 1963. Between 1971 and 1986, Granger and Vernet and al. identified 6 chemotypes of thyme. It concerns the geraniol, the a-teripeol, the thuyanol, the linalol, the carvacrol and the thymol."

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