Rose Oil

Rose is one of the most famous and common plant known to human being. This flower is known for its fragrance and the color, which is further associated with Love.

Rose oil is one of the oldest and best known of all the essential oils. The fragrance of rose is associated with love. It is warm, intense, immensely rich and rosy…. to lend beauty and depth.

Oil Properties

This essential oil is considered and is the most expensive oil and with its feminine and uplifting aroma, one can easily distinguish this oil. This essential oil is one of the oldest and best known to human life. This oil is thin in its texture with a very strong floral and sweet aroma.

This is very clear oil. It works great with skin problems and beauty products.

The main chemical components of Rose oil are Citronellol, Geraniol, Nerol, Farnesol, Geranic and Eugenol.

History behind this oil
This essential oil has a way back origin around the world, cause of its distinguished qualities. In Greek ‘Rosa’ comes from the world ‘Roden’ which mean ‘Red’ and in ancient time red color was associated to rose.

In 10th century one Arab physician, used rose as his first plant to distill. However, the first rose distillery existed in 1612 in Shiraz, Persia.

Rose petals were scattered at weddings to ensure a happy marriage and are still a symbol of love and purity and is also used to aid meditation and prayer.

You know around 60,000 roses are used to make one ounce of rose oil.

Who can benefit from this oil?
Rose essential oil is light and least in toxic level that is why considered as safest oil from other essential oils. This oil is used primarily for relaxing and soothing purpose.

Rose oil soothes the mind, helps with, grief, stress, depression, and nervous tension and helps to improve poor circulation and heart palpitations. It is also considered as a very good Aphrodisiac. Its gentle action makes it suitable for skin care of all types but especially treasured by those with dry, mature and sensitive skin.

This oil is beneficial for respiratory disorders as asthma, hay fever and coughs; digestive problems, menstrual problems, lever congestion, nausea, eczema, herpes, broken capillaries, leucorrhea, menorrhagia and uterine disorders.

Some of the therapeutic properties of this essential oil are its works great as an astringent, anti-spasmodic, diuretic, anti-infectious, laxative, anti-depressant, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, sedative, bactericidal, hepatic, splenetic and as a general tonic.

How to use this oil
This essential oil is not at all harmful and can be used without any mixture of carrier oil. Add some drops to your bath or massage will definitely give a luxurious and relax feeling. For skin care, this oil is considered best and highly used in lotions, powder and creams.

Massaging on the affected area or whole body is beneficial for stress, muscle tension and other related problems. With its soothing fragrance, one can use it as room freshener’s, to create romantic atmosphere, and to create a healthy environment.

A bowl of steaming hot water with 2 drops of oil dissolved may be used for steam inhalations is very good for respiratory disorders. This oil works good for allergies, asthma, headaches, baby blues, nervous tension and as a relaxant if used through vapour therapy.

Rose water is very good for conjunctivitis.

Method of Extraction
There are two extraction methods by which rose essential oil can be extracted. Solvent Extracted or Steam Distilled both of which are used for delicate plants, best quality and low cost.

Solvent extraction method is used on fragile plants, which yields a higher amount of essential oil at a lower cost. To use this process, we need to saturate the plant material with some chemical solvent such as hexane, and the result is an aromatic compound. This further result in a formation of mass or a substance called concrete. This substance is then dissolved in alcohol to remove the solvent. And we get essential oil when alcohol evaporates.

Precautions
The essential oil of rose is non-toxic, non-sensitizing and non-irritant oil. However, this should not be used during pregnancy. Apart from that, it is a safest essential oil and need very less care while using.

However, if some irritation problem results in, consult an aromatherapist.

How to buy Genuine Essential Oil?
Essential oils have to be Genuine, authentic, unadulterated, pure, holistic, and therapeutic to provide you the desired results. However, it is not so easy to figure out the purity and quality of oils. So many factors contribute for the oil to be pure.

Well as we know, many essential oils are quite expense cause of the process of manufacturing it, like Jasmine oil which cannot be inexpensive cause of its cost of harvesting and production.

Only genuine essential oils can guarantee the anticipated healing effect. This is the fact and one should be aware of some basic factors before purchasing essential oil. Tell me what is the use of purchasing something that is expensive and not genuine. Mostly these oils are mixed with some carrier oils and people are easily fooled. However, blends of essential oil and carrier oil are also available in the market, but that should be specified.

However, there are some important things to note down while purchasing oil

• Family of plant the oil belong
• Botanical name of the oil should be specified on the bottle
• Country of origin also matters cause of atmospheric conditions
• Smelling the oil can work out wonder, if one know the aroma of the oil, nothing like that. Try to become used to the aroma by smelling them when ever one gets a chance.
• Buy from a genuine dealer
• Check out the spellings of oil on the bottle before purchasing.

These were some of the facts taken care before purchasing an essential oil.

However, when buying an essential oil make sure the documentation which is with oil should contain information about the growth, harvest, distillation, and chemical make-up of the oil, There are many tests too to check the purity of the oil but they are too expensive. So our suggestion is to know the oil by yourself and do remember the things we have discussed.

Blends Well With:
Rose oil blends well with most oils, but particularly well with Geranium, Jasmine, Clove and Palmarosa.