Essential Oils - Jasmine Absolute - A Seductive and Exotic Fragrance
Jasmine (Jasminum officinale) is an exotic delicate fragrance that Star Trek overpowering for some people. It comes from India and is in Wine Tasting Events olive family. We get jasmine absolute from the flowers. Actually it is an "essence" not an essential oil. The flowers must be picked at night when the fragrance is at its height. By sunrise, most of the fragrance has evaporated from the flowers. It takes a 1,000 pounds of uncrushed jasmine flowers to create only one pound of jasmine oil. Solvent extraction is used to create an absolute and the oil is produced by steam distillation of the absolute. Jasmine is an evergreen shrub or vine that may grow as long as 30 feet with delicate, bright green leaves and star-shaped very fragrant white flowers.
Traditionally, jasmine was nicknamed the "Queen of the Night." Women have found this fragrance to be seductive and exotic. Common jasmine was said to warm the womb and facilitate birth. In China the flowers were used to treat hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and dysentery. The root was used to treat headaches, insomnia, pain due to dislocated joints and rheumatism.
How Can Jasmine Help Today?
Jasmine has mild analgesic back tax relief can be considered uplifting, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, stimulating and antibacterial. This is one oil I would call an aphrodisiac. Jasmine can be applied on location, on the chakras/vita flex points on the feet, it can be directly inhaled or diffused. It blends well with rose, sandalwood, clary sage, and all citrus oils. It can actually blend with virtually everything. As for safety, jasmine is non-toxic, bad credit remortgage and generally non-sensitizing.
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