Essential oils
What are essential oils?
Essential oils are concentrated, aromatic plant extracts that have been used for centuries for cosmetic, naturopathic and religious purposes. Today, they are still used in a wide range of products in cosmetics, perfumes, skin care, aromatherapy, food and much more. The vegetable oils typically come from nuts and kernels, where the oil is mechanically pressed out either by cold or hot pressing.
Use them at home
You can easily add essential oil as a fragrance to your recipe for homemade skin care products.
Typically, 0.5-2.0% essential oil is used in a mixture. If you would like more nuance and depth in your scents, you can use several types of essential oils together.
Some scents are calming and others are stimulating. It is different from person to person how the oils are experienced.
Essential oils and allergies
All the essential oils in our range are natural scents without chemicals. They are extracted by distilling plants and plant parts with special aromatic properties.
The oils are for example from herbs, leaves, needles, twigs, leaves, roots, nuts, seeds and bark.
However, you should not use essential oils in products for children or if you are pregnant or allergic.
Despite the fact that essential oils are natural oils, they can You may be oversensitive to them. A bottled essential oil is highly concentrated and you should never use the oil alone, directly on the body.
It is important that you dilute the essential oils in other (natural and good) oils or water.
It is also important to know that essential oils can be allergenic. And if you already suffer from allergies, you should therefore pay particular attention to whether you react to the individual essential oils.