.geranium

I know, I've been talking a lot about it lately but I just love geranium essential oil. It smells so delicious: very floral, oily, heavy, rosy. The scent is so rich!.

So, a few days ago I have been thinking about making another geranium soap. So why not making it using faux funnel pour technique to make it look like dessert? And I think it came out beautiful and mouth-watering, it looks like strawberry and cream sundae. Mmmm...

By the way, this is the first soap where I decided to use sunflower oil in place of olive oil. Can't wait for these sacred 4 weeks to end up to try my soap bar finally.For the color I used fuchsia and red labcolors from BrambleBerry.com, and I am very pleased of how they came out. And oh, how I love those little cracks in the white swirl!

.ylang & geranium

Ylang and geranium are two of my favourite essential oils. When I was choosing scent for my new batch of soap I decided to give it a try and mixed it together. I love how essential oils may mix creating some unbelievable fragrance that you would never know! For example recently I've found out essential oils blend that smell like dried berries and other with the scent of pepsi. Nice, ha? I'll share this secret soon!

I don't want to waste your time so my target in all this "plants-posts" is to find out in particular what useful properties does essential oil give us.

Ylang-ylang is a super stress reliever as it helps to relax, removes insomnia, depression and stress. It is great for all skin types because it moistures, renew skin cells, heals damages and scratches and what's most important it controls oily secretion of your skin. Ylang-ylang has aphrodisia properties: it makes women and men more sensual. Also, a few resources reported that it helps to recover breasts elasticity after pregnancy.
Try to blend with bergamot, lemongrass, rosewood, grapefruit, petitgrain, patchouli, jasmin, cassia, rose, orange, lavander, lemon, neroli, sandal, citronella.
Be careful! Don't use when pregnant! Not supposed to be used by children younger 12 years.

Geranium is like all types of doctors in one little flower. I won't even try to list all of it's properties, i will just mention those which concerns skin and aromatherapy. Geranium essential oil heals skin damages and diseases as eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, herpes. It strengthen blood circulation, renew skin cells, controls sebum, it is perfect for oily, sensitive and irritated skin.
Try to blend with orange, lemon, basil, bergamot, grapefruit, jasmin, juniper, cedar, lavander, patchouli, clove, lime, neroli, rose, rosmary, sandal, citronella, petitgrain, rosewood.
Be careful! Don't use when pregnant! Not supposed to be used by children younger 6 years and people with low blood sugar.

So what we have here - SuperHealer and SuperReliever altogether in one bar of soap. Super! It will be available through my Avadavat Etsy Shop soon.