She smells so good …
Produced from the Bigaradier Citrus Aurantium flower, Neroli essential oil is a must at home. Her number 1 benefit: she soothes. “The smell of Neroli essential oil orange blossom is strongly associated with purity, childhood“Comments Dr. Françoise Couic-Marinier, doctor of pharmacy, specialist in aromatherapy and phytotherapy. It is this olfactory notion which gives it a soothing, anti-stress effect.”It is also effective in the case of a depressed state“. To use it, just diffuse 2 drops of HE of Neroli in a water steam diffuser. “The ideal is to use it with soft orange essential oil whose effects are synergistic with those of Neroli essential oil“Recommend our specialist. We can also put 2 drops on the inner side of the wrists and breathe.
Neroli oil is also effective for digestion. “”It is useful in case of digestive problems linked to stress, in adults and children“Inform Dr. Couic-Marinier. Put 1 or 2 Drops of HE of Neroli on a neutral tablet, a small cookie or in a teaspoon of vegetable oil. It is also possible to massage the belly in a circular manner with essential oil diluted in 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Beauty side. “This essential oil releases features if you have expression wrinkles. It is also a good regenerating and skin moisturizing“Explains Dr. Couic-Marinier.”For a daily treatment, dilute this 1 % Neroli HE (about 15 drops for 30 ml of vegetable oil) in a jojoba vegetable oil if you have mixed skin, in an argan oil if your skin is dry“Recommend Dr. Couic-Marinier.
An oil that comforts in difficult times
“In olfactotherapy, this essential oil is also effective in helping to overcome a mourning (children who lose a loved one, parents who lose a baby …). Experiments have been carried out in maternities for parents whose baby died and have shown its effectiveness“Inform Dr. Couic-Marinier. Neroli essential oil is a harmonizing that can help children during their parents’ divorce or to tighten parents-child links. Put 1 to 2 drops of Neroli on the inner side of the wrists and breathe. You can put in a roll-on 10 drops of HE of Neroli in 10ml of apricot nuclei wrists several times a day.
Neroli oil can be used during pregnancy because it is one of the Sweetiest essential oils. This is also the case with essential oils of tangerine and grapefruit, but it is recommended to use the minimum amounts recommended. “Neroli essential oil is very soft and can even be used for babies from the age of 3 months” Inform Dr. Couic-Marinier. This essential oil has no contraindications apart from allergy to nerolidol, an allergen. You have to test your tolerance as for all essential oils before use by applying a drop of essential oil in the hollow of the elbow and see if there is no reaction. Be careful, however, of its smell! “”If it does not feel good, it can burn the skin because there has been reaction with oxygen of the air (peroxidation)“Indicates Dr. Couic-Marinier. NEROLI HE has the advantage of not being photosensitizing. You can therefore apply it on the skin before exposing yourself to the sun.
Thank you to Dr Françoise Couic-Marinier, doctor of pharmacy, specialist in aromatherapy and phytotherapy and author of works The Live Terre Guide of essential oils, 2020 and aromatherappsy, better living her emotions with essential oils, hypnosis and meditation, in Editions Terre Vivante, 2021.