Sunshine Spray

Safety:
Ylang Ylang is a beautiful oil with wonderful properties, but due to potential skin sensitization issues, Tisserand/Young suggest in Essential Oil Safety that the maximum dermal use level should be 0.8% to avoid these issues. Given this recommendation, our spray is diluted at 3%, which falls within this guideline.

Because of the citrus oil in this blend, you may want to avoid exposure to direct sunlight for up to 12 hours after use, but the dilution ratio should be adequate for most people.

Avoid contact with the eye. Essential oils are lipophilic, meaning they are attracted to fat—like the membranes of your eye and skin. Essential oils are hydrophobic, meaning they do not like water. Flushing with water will only send the essential oil back to the eye's membranes. Wiping with carrier oil will create another fat for the essential oil to be attracted to other than the membranes of the eye. We’ve not known this to cause permanent injury or long-term discomfort, but if you feel concerned, please call your doctor if necessary.

*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.