Hydrosols info

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Just some info on hydrosols' properties. Taken from www.innerself.com

 

General Uses of Hydrosols:

 

LEMON VERBENA Hydrosol - (Aloysia triphylla) is unavailable on the

open market but is being privately produced in California from

organically grown leaves and distilled in an ancient alchemist copper

alembic in the Mendocino hills. This hydrosol is lovely and useful

for the most sensitive skin, to degrease teenager acneic skin, to

heal minor skin imperfections, to take internally as a sleep aid or

to soothe an upset stomach. It also has much use as a spritz to

soothe the psyche.

 

MELISSA (Lemon-Mint) Hydrosol is not available in its true form. The

essential oil is one of the most adulterated on the market and when

available at all, costs $450/ounce. But the hydrosol is being

produced from organically grown plants in California. This wonderful,

fresh, lemon-scented water is used for sensitive aging skin, or

sprayed down the throat for many kinds of throat infections. It has

therapeutic and anti-microbial action. Wonderful as a facial spritz,

for hot flashes or in the summer to cool the skin.

 

YARROW FLOWER Hydrosol is wonderful as an astringent and anti-

inflammatory for reactive skin. It is a wonderful non-sweet scent

that is acceptable to the most discriminatory scent-conscious.

 

Other hydrosols that are available are: MYRTLE hydrosol for infected

or irritated eyes; ROSEMARY VERBENON and THYME linalol hydrosol for

dry skin; CHAMOMILE or A. arborescens for sensitive skin and abnormal

growth; LAVENDER hydrosol for soothing and easing mental tensions;

MARJORAM hydrosol for soothing the stomach; ROSE hydrosol (commonly

called Rosewater) for cooking, as a spritzfor all facial types, with

glycerin as a hand lotion, in alcohol beverages; ORANGE FLOWER water

in beverages and for mature skin.