This gentle blend is soothing to the skin, and the uplifting aroma may help ease tension and stress and promote restful sleep. It makes a beautiful cologne and perfume. Also available with fractionated coconut carrier oil.
Also available with fractionated coconut carrier oil or as a moisturizing spray.
Perfume 1 - Perfume Bottle (5ml glass) 3 drops Flower Garden EO Base blend (if using the tiny pipette that comes with the 2mL sample bottle, use 9 drops) 5mL Food-grade alcohol such as Everclear or Vodka (the essential oil is not as likely to separate with Everclear.) Shake well and enjoy :)
Room Spray Follow the perfume recipe above, but for a room spray, you can use a more concentrated formula. Salve 1oz Sanare-Velius or Comfrey/Calendula Salve Heat the jar with a heating pad (jar is upright). Once the salve is liquid, add essential oils.
2. I make my husband's aftershave out of Aloe Vera and add a few drops of Flower Garden as a scent. He loves it! 3. I had a strange, but good, experience with the Flower Garden blend. I woke up with a monster headache today. I drank coffee, took Exedrin for migraines and nothing helped. Then I finally realized duh, I probably have the cure in my EO stash. So I took the Flower Garden blend and massage it into my temples and on my forehead. Within five minutes, my arms and head got all goose bumpy for a few minutes and it literally felt like the headache was leaving my body. And then it was poof! Gone! I really felt like it just evaporated in the literal sense. Hooray for Flower Garden! I feel so much better. - Ami 4. For the past 2 days I've been really itchy for some unknown reason, especially on my shins and feet. Benadryl was not helping, so in desperation I went to my supply of EOs and picked "Flower Garden" and slathered it on my legs and feet. Sure enough, the itching is 90% gone about 30 minutes later. I'm not sure how much is due to the carrier oil vs. the EOs themselves, but I'll take it either way! - Ami 5. One night when I had an obnoxious headache (not a migraine, a regular headache), I reached for Headache Relief, rubbed it into my temples and all over my forehead like I normally do. As I sat there the next few minutes, the headache started dissolving away ... but at the same time, I kept thinking to myself: "This doesn't smell like Headache Relief".... so I looked at the bottle and I had put Flower Garden on my head! But it worked ... so I went with it! - Ami
6. Flower Garden is my favoite blend. It works on skin issues, and I love it for perfume. - Gail
*Absolutes are solvent extracted products. They are produced by a multi-step process which involves first extracting the flower (or other biomass) with a non-polar solvent such as hexane. After the hexane is evaporated, a waxy product is obtained called the concrete. The concrete is then extracted using a polar solvent such as ethanol. The polarity of ethanol allows extraction of the volatile aromatics from the concrete while leaving behind the non-polar plant waxes which don't dissolve well in ethanol. Finally, the ethanol is evaporated to leave behind the absolute, which will typically have 1-5% ethanol remaining in it and sometimes a trace of hexane, depending on the method used. Robert Tisserand, author of Essential Oil Safety, writes: The solvent normally used is hexane, and residues in absolutes are in the region of 1-20 ppm (parts per million). These are tiny amounts and should not be cause for concern in regard to safety" (Complete Skin Care Series).
