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Chamomile essential oil - calming, aids sleep, and useful in skin care

August 1st, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

When you’re looking for chamomile essential oil, you’ll find several varieties: Chamomile Roman, Chamomile German and Chamomile English.

Chamomile has a lovely scent, like apples, and is wonderful for treating inflamed, itchy skin.

It’s also a very relaxing essential oil. A couple of drops on a tissue and tucked into a pillow will calm even the most active child when it’s bedtime.

If you suffer from insomnia, a chamomile massage about half an hour before bedtime will put you to sleep within moments of your head hitting the pillow.

Some migraine sufferers also find the herb calming - when you feel a migraine coming on, have a massage with chamomile, or a bath with a few drops of chamomile added, and you’ll drop off to sleep. When you wake, you may find that the migraine is gone.

Chamomile for stress

If you’re looking for a stress reliever, a couple of drops of chamomile with a drop or two of lavender in a warm bath will help you to de-stress.

Other uses for chamomile include pain relief for arthritis, and for RSI (repetitive strain injury.)

Of the three chamomile varieties, Chamomile English has the most sedative action, so it’s especially good for insomnia.

African essential oil

July 26th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Many exotic essential oils are sourced from Africa. African essential oil from Madagascar varieties include black pepper clove buds and clove stem, Niaouli, Ylang-Ylang, ravintsara, ravensare as well as cinnamon bark and cinnamon leaves.

Most of the African essential oils are usually distilled according to special orders and the quality is guaranteed to be of high standards. The Malagasy Island has many varieties available including cypress, eucalyptus, ginger, geranium, helichrysum gymnocephalum, katrafay, lantane, palmrosa, and more.

Exporters of African essential oil often have their workshops where the essential oils are extracted using only steam distillation processes from plants as well as spices that have been collected from special plantations to guarantee that the quality of protection is constant. Most manufacturers and exporters with their own facilities for extracting essential oils will use big stainless steel sills and the oils extracted are also stored in large drums that are sure to be properly ventilated as well as meticulously filtered.

Besides Madagascar, there are a number of other African countries that are engaged in exporting and manufacturing African essential oils. You could try out the Ivory Coast for bergamot as well as bitter orange essential oils. From Egypt you can source other African essential oils that are extracted from basil oil, marjoram oil, spearmint oil, fennel oil, caraway oil as well as camphor oil.

In Marrakech too there are Moroccan companies that are engaged in exporting African essential oils to Europe, North America, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore as well as Taiwan. There is also Tunisian African essential oils that are very aromatic that also can be used for medicinal purposes. These are hundred percent pure essential oils made from Rosemary, Myrtle, Pepper Mint, Eucalyptus as well as lemon and the mode of extraction is usually steam distillation from non-treated plants.

Another country engaged in the production and export of African essential oils is Algeria, which makes essential oils like globulu eucalyptus, mentha pulegium and more. Also, there are African essential oils toilet soaps being made in Madagascar.

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