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Botanical Name: Cananga odorata Plant Part: Flowers Extraction Method: Steam Distillation Origin: Indonesia Description: A tall tropical tree up to 20m high with large, tender, fragrant flowers, which can be pink, mauve or yellow. The yellow flowers are considered best for the extraction of essential oil. Colour: Yellow to orange yellow Consistency: Light Note: Top Strength of Aroma: Strong Blends well with: Rosewood, Jasmine, Vetiver, Opopanax, Bergamot, Mimosa, Cassia and Rose. Aromatic Scent: Cananga has a sweet, exotic, deeply floral and heady with a creamy note. Cananga oil extracted from the flowers of plants growing in Java is said to contain fewer esters and more sesquiterpenes than ylang-ylang oil extracted from flowers growing in R?union, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands. History:The Cananga is a common village tree in Malaysia. Its fragrant flowers are worn for personal adornment. Long used for its sensual and aphrodisiacal properties, the fresh flowers are strewn on the beds of newly married couples. It was introduced to the island of R?union in the western Indian Ocean in the late 18th century, and from there to Nossi-B? and the Comoro Islands about a century ago. The oil distilled from the flowers is known as cananga oil.

The Aromatherapy shop offers for sale a beautiful locally handmade Beechwood Aromatherapy Box with carrying handle plus 25 Essential oils and 3 x 100ml of carrier oil.This is a custom made item and you can choose from over 100 essential oils and absolute dilutions to complete your order. Together with your 25 essential oils are 1 x 100ml bottle of Sweet Almond,1 x 100ml bottle of Grapeseed Oil and 1 x 100ml bottle of Wheatgerm Oil. This offer represents real value for money and would be very hard to find anywhere else. Stocks of these kits are limited so order while you can!.

Aromatherapy is the modern name for art of using natural oils from flowers, fruits and other parts of plants to improve physical and mental well being. These oils are known as Essential oils The word 'Aromatherapy' was coined by a French Chemist, Rene Gattefosse, in 1928. He discovered, quite by accident, that lavender oil had amazing healing properties.He accidentally burned his hand during a laboratory experiment and instinctively plunged his hand in to the nearest thing that would have a cooling effect and bring some relief to the burning. That cooling medium was a vat of Lavender Oil and he was amazed to discover that the severe burn on his hand healed very quickly and there was little of the expected scarring that is usually the result of burns to the skin. So quite by accident, Rene Gattefosse discovered that Lavender Oil greatly aided the healing of severe burns and also helped to prevent scarring. Others shared his interest and the foundations of modern Aromatherapy were established. Today, Aromatherapy is respected and widely practiced as one of the most popular complementary medicine therapies. In common with many other complementary therapies, Aromatherapy takes a holistic approach to healing by considering the whole person and treating both the physical and emotional symptoms. The use of Aromatherapy Essential Oil is one of the fastest growing forms of natural medicine and is indeed an excellent example of a holistic approach to health - first because essential oils can be used to treat the whole person, body, mind and spirit, and secondly because, unlike conventional medicine, which targets drugs to eradicate a particular disease process, the essential oils may have a specific action on a disease process but will also support and strengthen the person to throw off the disease.

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