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| The Roman "Roseto",rose garden in Italian |
For
millennia, nature was the pharmacy and the natural world provided the
ingredients for medicine and beauty. There were two approaches: Aromatherapy
(the use of essential oils to enhance and heal) and Phytotherapy (the use of
particular plants products to prevent and treat illness).
Rose is known for its antidiarrheal, purification, tonic and energizing
properties. For topical use this plant is appreciated for its antiseptic,
astringent and healing action. Rose again contains vitamin A, B, C, E, K, PP,
tannins and pectin which are used for their astringent, healing and toning
properties.
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
But how do we extract essential oils from this amazing flower?
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;
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SInce 1988,my work has been the testimony of an ancient tradition of Italian Herbalism in the U.S.”. “From a dream of quality, herbs and alchemy came a business.” -
Ms Carmen Miraglia-Erbe founder
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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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“Since 1988,my work has been the testimony of an ancient tradition of Italian Herbalism in the U.S.”. “From a dream of quality, herbs and alchemy came a business.” -
Ms Carmen Miraglia-Erbe founder
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