Botanical Name: Matricaria chamomilla
Botanical Family: Asteraceae
Extraction Method: Steam distilled
Part of Plant Distilled: Flowers
Country of Origin: Germany
Cultivation Method: Organic
Composition: 100% Matricaria chamomilla
Consistency: Thin to medium viscosity
Scent Description: Floral, herbaceous, and sweet.
In Living Libations: All Seeing Eye Crème, Open Sky Eye Serum
Blends well with: Sweet Birch, Basil, Frankincense, Chamomile, Yarrow, Cardamom, Rose Otto, Peppermint, Palmarosa, Geranium, and Eucalyptus.
Uses: Applied topically for hot and dry skin issues. Calms and clears the appearance of red skin. Improves the appearance and feel of skin texture. Added to massage oil to lovingly languid mind, muscles, and emotions. Used as a culinary oil and in tea. User friendly – may be applied undiluted to skin.
Constituents: Soothing sesquiterpenes chamazulenze and alpha-bisabolol
Early morning petal plucking results in the best distillations with abundant matricine, which is fuller in flowers at dawn. High quantities of soothing sesquiterpenes impart this distillation with a deep oceanic blue color and express compelling cooling and calming properties. This blue-hue essence is a champion ingredient for fortifying facials and benevolent body serums.
Consecrated by many a midwife, Matricaria, from the Latin 'matrix' (womb) and 'mater' (mother) is appreciated as a birth tonic.
While both Roman Chamomile and German Chamomile are champions for skincare, they are distinct in color and scent. The gossamer-gold liquid of Roman Chamomile is sunshine on a summer day with comforting notes of honeyed hay. While German Chamomile's oceanic blue hue offers an unflappable-floral that is here to keep your skin and your spirit calm, cool, and clear with its nexus-nectar.
"An authentic essential oil of the alpha-bisabolol type, make it one of the most valuable essential oils... Essential oil of German Chamomile is completely nontoxic and nonirritating and serves as a welcome universally applicable agent... Addition of German Chamomile essential oil to face and body oils always works."
~ Kurt Schnaubelt, The Intelligence of Essential Oils
