Beauty & Care Lemongrass essential oil

Fragrance Lemongrass oil

Lemongrass oil has a fresh and green, spicy and lemony scent with an earthy undertone.
Lemongrass has a predominant odor and can therefore easily mask other odors.

How Lemongrass oil works

Lemongrass is one of the most powerful scents in aromatherapy.
The scent contributes to an optimistic atmosphere, provides energy and new insights.
Lemongrass is also called Lemongrass in the Netherlands.
Lemongrass essential oil has a calming effect on the nervous system.
The essential oil is insect repellent against flies, mosquitoes and ticks.
Helps prevent excessive perspiration.

What is the essential oil used for?

Lemongrass is widely planted for the production of citral.
This is Lemongrass' most important fragrance for the fragrance industry, among others.
The perfumer uses Lemongrass as an overtone when designing perfumes.
The fragrance is widely used in cleaning products, soaps and skin care products.
Lemongrass essential oil is an Oriental essential oil and is therefore widely used in Oriental cuisine. It is an indispensable ingredient for Indonesian and Thai cuisine and is also called 'sereh'. It is also known as a flavoring agent in foods.
Lemongrass has a heavy, lemon-like flavor.

Use Lemongrass 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 or skin oil: add a maximum of 20 drops of Lemongrass oil to 250 ml of Sweet Almond oil for a relaxing, muscle pain-relieving massage or skin oil.
• In the bath or in a foot bath: use our Hamam bath oil for Lemongrass in the bath because otherwise Lemongrass oil will float on the water.
  Hamam bath oil contains natural Lemongrass and Lavandin oil.
• Good to use on oily/acne skin.

Warnings

• Do not take the essential oil neat or use it neat on the skin.
• It is not recommended to use lemongrass oil in people with glaucoma.
• Avoid used on damaged or sensitive skin.
• Only use externally in a very low dose during pregnancy.

Lemongrass oil mixes well with

The essential oil mixes well with citrus scents, pine, eucalyptus, geranium, lavandin, lavender, mint, peppermint, rose and sandalwood oil.

Extraction of essential Lemongrass oil

The Cymbopogon Flexuoses is a grass-like plant that often occurs in the (sub)tropics of Asia.
It is a perennial plant with large diamond-shaped stems and lemon-scented leaves.
The plant can grow to about 1 meter high. Already six months after planting, the grass can be cut for the first time for steam distillation. All aromatic grasses contain high levels of cital and geraniol that smell like a mixture of lemon and rose.
Lemongrass essential oil is extracted by steam distillation of the grass in India.
1 liter of Lemongrass oil requires 50 kilos of fresh or partially dried lemongrass.
Normally the grass is dried for three days and then distilled for 1.5 hours by steam distillation. Lemongrass oil has a bright yellow to warm yellow color.

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, the liter bottle and the 5 and 10 liter can are used as refill packaging.