Beauty & Care Bergamot essential oil

Fragrance Bergamot essential oil

Bergamot fruits are a cross between a type of lime (Citrus limetta) and a sour orange (Citrus aurantium). The scent is therefore a bit sweeter than Lemon and a bit more sour than Orange oil. Bergamot oil (Citrus Bergamia) has a fresh, soft, lively, sweet scent.
Bergamot oil is a citrus oil that clearly distinguishes itself from other citrus scents.
This is the only citrus essential oil that does not have Limonene as its main ingredient.
The main components in Bergamot are Linalool and Linalyl acetate.
These are also the main compounds of real Lavender oil.
Therefore, these essential oils can be combined well with each other.

Bergamot oil effect

Bergamot is a classic in aromatherapy.
This essential oil gives energy and has a relaxing effect.
Especially good to use for winter depression or if you just want to feel better about yourself.
Bergamot essential oil can be used with a facial mask with Ghassoul and Argan oil.
Bergamot oil gives the mask a wonderful scent and this scent has a relaxing effect.
The essential oil is also used in the elderly and in waiting rooms to reduce stress before surgery.

What is the essential oil used for?

In the perfume industry, Bergamot is an important oil with a green-yellow color.
In perfumes, Bergamot is used as a fresh, sweet overtone.
Bergamot is mainly used for eau-de-colognes, eau-de-toilettes and eau-de-parfum.
Bergamot has a scent that is somewhat similar to lemon, but warmer. The well-known, calming aroma of this good oil has a distinctly positive effect.
Bergamot is also used in liqueurs, syrup and marmalade.

Use Bergamot oil

• In the sauna: add 5 to 10 drops to an ice ball or to the water in the sauna tub
• In an aroma burner: add 2 to 4 drops to the water in an aroma burner
• On an aromastone: add 2 to 4 drops to the stone of the aromastone
• In a diffuser: add 2 to 4 drops to the water in the diffuser
• In a massage oil: add a maximum of 10 drops of Bergamot oil to 250 ml of Sweet Almond oil for a natural massage oil. Only use this massage oil if you will stay out of the sun for 12 hours afterwards.
• For steaming: add a maximum of 1 to 4 drops to boiling water and steam with a towel over the head
• In the steam room: add 2 to 4 drops of essential oil to a sponge and place it in a stainless steel bowl under the steam pipe
• Skin oil: put a few drops of bergamot oil in Argan oil or Grape seed oil for dry skin. (also suitable for old skin) Be careful with sunlight.
• DIY deodorant: add a few drops of bergamot essential oil and a few drops of lavender oil to a body lotion and use it as a deodorant.

Warnings

• Do not take the essential oil neat or use it neat on the skin.
• Do not apply bergamot oil to the skin in a skin oil just before sunbathing, as this may cause pigment spots. The best oils to dilute bergamot essential oil are argan oil and grapeseed oil.

Bergamot oil mixes well with

Bergamot essential oil is a nice oil to combine. Bergamot essential oil goes well with sweet-scented flowers, citrus scents, cedarwood, lavandin, lavender, pine, geranium, mandarin, mint, peppermint, orange, ylang ylang and sandalwood oils.

Extraction of Bergamot essential oil

The name Bergamot comes from the city of Bergamo in Italy. The Bergamot is a member of the diamond family. It is a small tree with oval leaves and the bergamot fruit, which is often green, yellow, somewhat pear-shaped. The tree is usually pruned to a height of 4 - 5 meters and grown in the coastal areas of southern Italy. Around 1700, Bergamot was already grown commercially for the cold-pressed bergamot oil from the fresh peels. The essential oil is extracted from the outer layer of the peel of the ripe fruit.
This Bergamot essential oil for aromatherapy is extracted by cold pressing from fresh bergamot peels of the ripe Citrus Bergamia fruit from Italy.
1 liter of Bergamot oil (or 20,000 drops of Bergamot oil) requires more than 200 kilos of fresh Bergamot peels.
Bergamot oil has a light green to yellow-green color and somewhat resembles the smell of a sour orange. Bergamot essential oil often appears as the well-known aroma of earl gray tea, but in aromatherapy this citrus oil is often used for its relaxing effect and its cleansing effect.

About the bottles

The 5 ml and 20 ml brown glass bottles contain a dropper and a child-friendly cap and the 100 ml brown glass bottles contain a pipette. The 500 ml bottle and the liter bottle are used as refill packaging.