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| An Italian monastery close to Rome where the herbal tradition began many centuries ago. |
Aromatherapy is one the most effective way to prevent oxidation, delay aging processes, such as loss of skin tone and elasticity, to nourish, protect, purify and rejuvenate. Treatments with essential oils are more intense and therapeutic than those products, such as moisturizers, that lack these essential ingredients.
Essential oils can never be used directly on the skin; they must be blended with moisturizers or diluted in some medium such as a vegetable base oil like Sweet Almond Oil
The science of Aromatherapy studies the properties and indications of essential oils used to identify their beneficial qualities for the maintenance and the health of the skin. ERBE Aromatherapy treatments employ true essential oils that are distilled in their pure, undiluted for and never reconstructed or adulterated.
ESSENTIAL OILS GLOSSARY;
SWEET ALMOND OIL
ALL SKIN TYPES
Suitable for all skin types even the most delicate and sensitive of adults and babies. One of the best known vegetable oils, it is traditionally used in cosmetics for its refreshing, emollient, soothing, nourishing and calming qualities. Sweet Almond Oil is used to prevent stretch marks and heal dry-flaky skin. What¹s more, it is odorless and will not alter the natural scent of the essential oils. It is also indicated for the daily cleansing of babies with irritated skin.
ST. JOHN'S WORT OIL
FOR ALL SKIN TYPES INCLUDING SENSITIVE AND MATURE
Soothing, And Calming, After Sun Treatment.
When applied topically, the great soothing anti-irritant properties of St.John's Wort are known to heal burns, sunburns and to calm different kind of irritations and allergic reactions. Heals dry and flaky skin, smoothes age lines, regenerates damaged skin cells, increases skin elasticity, while revitalizing mature skin and preventing dehydration.
CALENDULA OIL
DEHYDRATED, IRRITATED SKIN
Calendula has great anti-inflammatory properties, excellent for help heal wounds, ulcers, sores, varicose veins, bruises, rashes, eczema etc. It helps inflamed and itchy skin conditions, also for burns and capillary feagility. Calendula Oil has great healing, soothing and softening qualities and is ideal for babies
ROSE OIL
ANTI-AGING, SOOTHING, NOURISHING
Rose Oil is prepared especially for the face where it hydrates and revitalizes dry and mature skin. It also minimizes redness due to capillary fragility, smoothes wrinkles and fine lines leaving the skin soft and clear, with renewed tone and elasticity.
NEROLI OIL
ANTI-OXIDANT, SOOTHING, ANTI-AGING
Neroli Oil is a highly hydrating and toning it has anti-oxidant and purifying qualities. It prevents premature aging, soothes irritations and revitalizes dull relaxed skin, while refining pores and restoring a clear and luminous complexion.
ROSE OIL
ANTI-AGING, SOOTHING, NOURISHING
Rose Oil is prepared especially for the face where it hydrates and revitalizes dry and mature skin. It also minimizes redness due to capillary fragility, smoothes wrinkles and fine lines leaving the skin soft and clear, with renewed tone and elasticity.
NEROLI OIL
ANTI-OXIDANT, SOOTHING, ANTI-AGING
Neroli Oil is a highly hydrating and toning it has anti-oxidant and purifying qualities. It prevents premature aging, soothes irritations and revitalizes dull relaxed skin, while refining pores and restoring a clear and luminous complexion.
ROSEMARY OIL
PURIFYING, STIMULATING, HEALING
A Purifying Treatment that heals and controls excess oil. Rosemary Oil has effective purifying, healing and anti-aging properties indicated for oily skin to control and normalize production of sebum. With toning and stimulating effects it helps revitalize dull and relaxed skin while purifying clogged pores and refining skin texture. Daily use will prevent blemishes and acne breakouts, leaving the skin a healthy and clear skin
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| Where essential oils used to be treated. |
Plants can be considered as a laboratory containing many chemicals, extractable in different ways depending on the method used. From each of these methods it is possible to obtain a final product with specific requirements,characteristics and therapeutic indications. The extraction techniques applied to material of vegetable nature, are employed as well as for obtaining the pure active principle, removing unwanted components from the plants.
Aromacosmetics are based on the therapeutic action of extracted herbs and flowers and essentials oils.
The sources and quality of the row natural ingredients play a primary role, harvest must occur in season and in the "balsamic time" when the plants offer the most of their therapeutic properties
Clinical studies show that inhaling the aroma of essential oils turns on the entire neuron-endocrine system, the neurological area which intimately affects our deepest emotion. The oils fragrance help re-establish harmony, either in the body’s physiology up to a mental emotional level, balancing our entire personality. Once absorbed through massage, essential oils penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin helping to relieve areas of congestion and improving the quality of our self regulating resources. Essential oils have properties that make them suitable for the maintenance and health of the skin, for personal hygiene, as well as to prevent unbalanced skin conditions. They also help protect cellular membranes from premature aging processes and to diffuse aromatic scents at home to perfume and disinfect. They also act to prevent a wide range of skin disorders associated with aging, resulting in long-lasting, positive effects.
Therefore, the versatile properties of these oils and their lack of side effects make Aromatherapy a great alternative to conventional medicine for many conditions.
Based on years of experience and passion in the aromatherapy field, Erbe, which has the reputation of extracting the best quality of essential oils in Italy, is proud to give you those suggestions on these healing and beautifying combinations of oils ready to use on the face, body or as massage oils. Essential oils are extremely concentrated and cannot be used pure, they are invariably deluded in base oils.
Based on years of experience and passion in the aromatherapy field, Erbe, which has the reputation of extracting the best quality of essential oils in Italy, is proud to give you those suggestions on these healing and beautifying combinations of oils ready to use on the face, body or as massage oils. Essential oils are extremely concentrated and cannot be used pure, they are invariably deluded in base oils.
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| An ancient house close to a very famous monastery at the center of Italy |
Chamomile & Sweet Almond Oil; for the face, light and soothing oil, recommended to heal dry and sensitive skin.Anti-inflammatory,treats capillary fragility, helps calm eczema and allergic conditions. Reduce redness and evens the tone and color of the skin.
Lavender & Sweet Almond oil; Lavender (from Latin-lavare-to wash) is always been associated with cleaning and purification. Balances the natural ph of the skin, normalizes sensitive skin with blemishes. Mildly antiseptic helps prevent bacteria that cause acne and irritation, helps heal scars due to acne, and prevents blemishes.
Rosemary & Almond Oil; Rosemary has been traditionally used to stimulate oily and dull skin, refines the skin texture, reduces and purifies clogged pores, antiseptic quality helps the healing process of skin eruption caused by acne.
STEP BY STEP FROM HARVEST TO COSMETICS-HOW NATURAL SKIN CARE IS MADE
1) MACERATION;
Parts of the fresh plant are placed in an airtight container and covered with almond oil or other base oils for 30 days
2) FILTERING AND SCREENING;
After this period the oil is filtered and transferred into another container and skips to the pressing plant mixed with oil that contains most of the functional substances in the plant itself. Two more days of resting, then a second screening and other purifying processes occur before the oil, filtered and pure, is ready for distillation.
3)DISTILLED;
Essential oils are obtained by steam distillation. The pressurized steam is introduced into the lower part of the distiller and passes through the plant parts or oil to vaporize the volatile oils contained in them. It is a method that applies to most of the aromatic plants and exploits the physical properties of essences, in particular their volatility.It is to separate the essential oil from the plant origin using a jet of water vapor, which invests plant tissues and "carries" the essence. From the process you get two final products: the distillate and the aromatic water. This is the water that comes from the condensation of the same steam, scented by a small fraction of essence dissolved in it.
The techniques of preparation of scented oils by maceration of flowers, herbs and spices in vegetable oils has remained largely the same over the centuries, until the development of the process of distilling the essence which allowed to replace at least part of the long process of maceration, giving also aromatic oils therapeutic efficacy and safety of use unknown before. The therapeutic properties of the essential oils in pharmacology are also the foundation of their special and profound action in dermo-cosmetics.
That branch of aromatherapy known as aroma cosmetic uses the power of penetration through the tissues of the essences to establish beauty treatments that are not limited to the surface of the skin, but to be correct in a stable cells renewal process.
The antiseptic power of the essences is active, not only for lesions, wounds and sores, even for a general time-disinfectant action to rid the skin of microinfection that cause pimples, eczema, rashes, etc..
Essential oils perform the function of stimulating the exhausted tissues, promote cell renewal and maintain constant the level of purification.
The best results are obtained with blends of essential oils that work in synergy with oils or creams or emulsions.
The most recent research has developed dermo-cosmetic functional products based on specific essences for various treatments that integrate the therapeutic aspect-base with the aesthetic.
More practically, the plants can be considered as a laboratory containing many chemicals, extractable in different ways depending on the method used. From each of these methods it is possible to obtain a final product with specific requirements and characteristics, with specific therapeutic indications. The extractive techniques applied to material of vegetable nature, are employed as well as for obtaining the pure active principle, removing unwanted components from the plants.
Aromacosmetics are based on the therapeutic action of extracted herbs and flowers and essentials oils.
The sources and quality of the row natural ingredients play a primary role, harvest must occur in season and in the (balsamic time) when the plants offer the most of their therapeutic properties
Parts of the fresh plant are placed in an airtight container and covered with almond oil or other base oils for 30 days
2) FILTERING AND SCREENING;
After this period the oil is filtered and transferred into another container and skips to the pressing plant mixed with oil that contains most of the functional substances in the plant itself. Two more days of resting, then a second screening and other purifying processes occur before the oil, filtered and pure, is ready for distillation.
3)DISTILLED;
Essential oils are obtained by steam distillation. The pressurized steam is introduced into the lower part of the distiller and passes through the plant parts or oil to vaporize the volatile oils contained in them. It is a method that applies to most of the aromatic plants and exploits the physical properties of essences, in particular their volatility.It is to separate the essential oil from the plant origin using a jet of water vapor, which invests plant tissues and "carries" the essence. From the process you get two final products: the distillate and the aromatic water. This is the water that comes from the condensation of the same steam, scented by a small fraction of essence dissolved in it.
The techniques of preparation of scented oils by maceration of flowers, herbs and spices in vegetable oils has remained largely the same over the centuries, until the development of the process of distilling the essence which allowed to replace at least part of the long process of maceration, giving also aromatic oils therapeutic efficacy and safety of use unknown before. The therapeutic properties of the essential oils in pharmacology are also the foundation of their special and profound action in dermo-cosmetics.
That branch of aromatherapy known as aroma cosmetic uses the power of penetration through the tissues of the essences to establish beauty treatments that are not limited to the surface of the skin, but to be correct in a stable cells renewal process.
The antiseptic power of the essences is active, not only for lesions, wounds and sores, even for a general time-disinfectant action to rid the skin of microinfection that cause pimples, eczema, rashes, etc..
Essential oils perform the function of stimulating the exhausted tissues, promote cell renewal and maintain constant the level of purification.
The best results are obtained with blends of essential oils that work in synergy with oils or creams or emulsions.
The most recent research has developed dermo-cosmetic functional products based on specific essences for various treatments that integrate the therapeutic aspect-base with the aesthetic.
More practically, the plants can be considered as a laboratory containing many chemicals, extractable in different ways depending on the method used. From each of these methods it is possible to obtain a final product with specific requirements and characteristics, with specific therapeutic indications. The extractive techniques applied to material of vegetable nature, are employed as well as for obtaining the pure active principle, removing unwanted components from the plants.
Aromacosmetics are based on the therapeutic action of extracted herbs and flowers and essentials oils.
The sources and quality of the row natural ingredients play a primary role, harvest must occur in season and in the (balsamic time) when the plants offer the most of their therapeutic properties
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| A wonderful Italian botanical garden at the center of Rome. |
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