Tension relieving and muscle relaxing a traditional aphrodisiac
The Origins Of Clary Sage Essential Oil
The plant, native to Europe is a tall biennial or perennial herb with a big hairy purple and green leaves supported by a reddish tinged stem. The flowers are small white or blue/violet
Extraction
The essential oil is steam distilled from the flowering tops and from the leaves
INCI
Salvia Sclarea
Aromatherapy Uses
Clary Sage is used in blends to help relieve tension and encourage relaxation. Clary Sage helps bring a feeling of Euphoria. Clary Sage has long been used as an aphrodisiac due to its tension relieving properties. Combined with Ylang Ylang and Lime, it creates a beautiful massage oil or burning oil to set the mood.
Skin Uses
Clary Sage works well at balancing sebum levels in the skin, encouraging dry skin to produce more oil and oily skin to calm secretions. This makes Clary Sage excellent for use on combination skin types.
Hair Uses
Clary Sage works well with dandruff prone hair and helps to balance the scalp.
Therapeutic Properties
Basil Essential oil is often used in blends for cramps, joint pain, muscular aches and pains and exhaustion. Blends created for water retention often contain Basil Essential Oil.
Clary Sage Blends well with
Clary Sage blends well with most essential oils, we like to use Clary Sage with Bergamot, Cedarwood, Citronella, Cypress, Frankincense, Geranium, Grapefruit, Jasmine, Juniper, Lavender, Lime, Orange and Sandalwood
Precautions
As with all essential oils, Naturallythinking recommend you avoid when pregnant.
Understanding Oil Extraction Methods
What is Steam Distillation?
Steam Distillation is the most popular method of distillation of Essential oil. High pressure hot steam is passed through the plant material. The volatile compounds of the plant material are transferred to the steam and pass through a coil where they are cooled.
On cooling, the oil being lighter than water will separate from the water where it is possible to syphon off.
The remaining water becomes the floral water / hydrolat of the plant material.
What is Expression?
This is just like the process of peeling a citrus fruit. Effectively it is the cold processing of the fruit to extract the essential oil.
Primarily this technique is used on Citrus Essential Oils where the heat of steam would destroy the scent and properties.
Mechanical pressure is applied to the fruit and the resulting oil is the essential oi.
What is an Absolute?
Absolutes require solvent extraction in order to extract them.
Some plants are very difficult to extract the essential oil, either to produce a quality product or to obtain a yield which is economical. Examples of oils which are normally obtained by Solvent extraction are Vanilla, Jasmine and Rose.
Normally Organic ethanol is used to steep the flowers and then evaporated to leave just the concentrated absolute of the plant.
Important Information
Naturallythinking Essential oils are for external use only. We do not sell aromatherapy oils / products for internal use. The information contained on these pages is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Aromatherapy should not be used by those who are pregnant or under the supervision of a medical practitioner / doctor without consultation with the medical practitioner / doctor. If you have a medical condition or any worries, always consult with a doctor / medical practitioner first.