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.
30% dilution
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. I LOVE Flower Garden! The scent is wonderful (I use it as perfume), but really it's helped me and others many times for issues such as eczema, bites, rashes, cuts and so on. My South Korean missionary friend received a bottle from me as a birthday present (after she saw it heal her ringworm-type rash on leg). - Gail (missionary in Vanuatu) 5. 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 6. 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 7. I pinched the flesh on the side of my arm in between two pieces of metal. Ouuuch! I lifted up the top piece of metal and the yanked it out. By the time I walked in the house, the pinched area had darkened into a black, sweltering circle. I immediately applied Flower Garden, let it soak in, then iced the area. The throbbing stopped and blackness faded! I alternated applying the two for about ten minutes and then went back to work. - Emily
8. 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).
