Floral, hormone and sebum balanching. Wonderful for combination skin
The Origins Of Geranium Essential Oil
An uplifting and strong smelling oil with a beautiful floral scent and gentle apple like undertones. Geranium oil that blends well with most essential oils.
Extraction
The essential oil is steam distilled from the flowers, leaves and stalks
INCI
Pelargonium graveolens
Aromatherapy Uses
Geranium is used in Aromatherapy to balance hormones and the sebum levels in the skin. It has a balancing effect on emotions.
Skin Uses
The balancing effect of Geranium Essential Oil makes it suitable for combination skin where you have both dry and oil patches. Geranium essential oil is used for cuts, bruises, eczema, burns, acne, broken veins and mature or dry skin.
Hair Uses
Geranium essential oil balances the hormones and thus helps regulise the secretions from the scalp. This can aid a healthy scalp and thus healthy hair.
Therapeutic Properties
Geranium Essential Oil is both a tonic and and a sedative on the nervous system. It is a mild but effective antiseptic on the skin, helping to soothe the skin. Geranium essential oil is especially useful and popular for the treatment of shingles.
Geranium Blends well with
Basil Essential Oil blends well with most other herb based essential oils and also with lavender, geranium, bergamot, lime, lemon, frankincense and pine.
Precautions
As with all essential oils we do not recommend using Geranium during pregnancy, especially as it regulates the hormonal system. May cause irritation to sensitive skin.
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.