Mother Nature provides us with a huge range of natural skin care ingredients to protect and care for your skin, and they are all conveniently brought together under the gentle healing art of aromatherapy. What’s more, carrier oils and essential oils not only revitalise and balance your skin, but they will also give your flagging energy levels and emotions a boost at the same time. Just the ticket, since here in the UK we are caught in the grips of a miserable deep freeze!
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Patchouli essential oil (Pogostemon cablin) is unmistakable, and for those of a certain generation its sweet earthy aroma will often trigger happy memories of the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Adopted by the counterculture that began in the USA and quickly swept the western world, patchouli will be forever associated with hippies, psychedelia, Hare Krishna and marijuana; although not necessarily all of those or in that order!
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The delicate nature of many flowers means that steam distillation can not be used to extract the fragrant oil because the intense heat destroys the flowers, causing them to become compacted into a solid mass that steam is unable to penetrate. If the steam is unable to move freely through the flowers during distillation it is impossible to extract the oil.
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