Beauty & Care Lemongrass essential oil

Fragrance Lemongrass oil

Lemongrass oil is also called lemongrass oil. Essential Lemongrass oil has a fresh and green, spicy and lemony scent with an earthy undertone. This citrus oil has a dominant scent and can therefore easily mask other scents. Because essential Lemongrass oil has a powerful scent, unpleasant odors disappear immediately when using this fresh lemon scent.

In a mix with Lavender this scent is very popular. We have mixed these essential oils together to Hamam mix. This mix has a wonderful scent and it repels mosquitoes.

How Lemongrass Oil Works

Lemongrass is one of the most powerful scents in aromatherapy.
The scent contributes to an optimistic atmosphere, gives energy and new insights.
Lemongrass is also called Citroengras in the Netherlands.
Lemongrass essential oil has a calming effect on the nervous system.
The essential oil is insect repellent against flies, mosquitoes and ticks.
Helps to prevent excessive perspiration through its disinfectant effect.

The scent gives a clean feeling when cleaned with this scent. This essential oil is used in many cleaning products.

What is the essential oil used for?

Lemongrass is widely planted for the production of citral.
This is the most important fragrance of Lemongrass for the fragrance industry, among others.
The perfumer uses Lemongrass as a top note when designing perfumes.
The fragrance is widely used in cleaning agents, soaps and skin care products.
Lemongrass essential oil is an oriental essential oil and is therefore widely used in oriental cuisine. It is an indispensable ingredient for Indonesian and Thai cuisine and is also called 'sereh'. It is also known as a flavoring in foods.
Lemongrass has a heavy, citrusy flavor.

Use Lemongrass oil

The number of drops of this product used is important as the essential lemongrass oil is present quite quickly.

• As a sauna oil: add 20 drops to an ice ball or to the water in the sauna tub
• In an aroma burner: add 2 to 4 drops to the water in an aroma burner
• On an aroma stone: add 2 to 4 drops to the stone of the aroma stone
• In a diffuser: add 2 to 4 drops to the water in the diffuser
• In a massage or skin oil: add up to 20 drops of Lemongrass oil to 250 ml of Sweet Almond oil for a relaxing, muscle pain relieving massage oil, base oil or skin oil.
• In the bath or in a foot bath: for Lemongrass in the bath use our Hamam bath oil because Lemongrass oil otherwise floats on the water. Use 25 ml hamam bath oil on a full bath.
  Hamam bath oil contains natural Lemongrass and Lavandin oil. This bath oil can also be used for sore feet or swollen ankles in a foot bath.
• Good to use on oily/acne skin.

Warnings

• Do not ingest the essential oil pure or use it pure on the skin.
• It is not recommended to use lemongrass oil in people with glaucoma.
• Avoid using on damaged or sensitive skin.
• Only use externally in a very low dosage during pregnancy.
• Keep out of reach of children.
• Do not use on damaged skin.

Lemongrass oil mixes well with the following essential oils

The essential oil blends well with citrus scents, citronella, pine, eucalyptus, geranium, lavandin, lavender, mint, peppermint, rose and sandalwood oil.

Extraction of Lemongrass essential oil

Cymbopogon citratus is commonly known as lemongrass, an ornamental grass. Cymbopogon Flexuosus is known as East Indian Lemongrass and is used for flavoring and lemongrass essential oil. Lemongrass has a different scent than Citronella essential oil.

The Cymbopogon Flexuoses is a grass-like plant that is often found in the (sub)tropics of Asia.
It is a perennial plant with large, rhomboid-like stems and lemon-scented leaves.
The plant can grow to about 1 meter high. The grass can be cut for the first time for steam distillation just six months after planting. All aromatic grasses contain high levels of citral and geraniol which smell like a mixture of lemon and rose.
Lemongrass essential oil is obtained by steam distillation of the grass in India.
For 1 liter of Lemongrass oil you need 50 kilos of fresh or partially dried lemongrass.
Normally the grass is dried for three days and then distilled for 1.5 hours by means of steam distillation. Lemongrass oil has a bright yellow to warm yellow color.

About the bottles

The 5ml and 20ml brown glass bottles contain a dropper and a child-proof cap and the 100ml brown glass bottles contain a pipette.
The 500 ml bottle and the litre bottle are used as refill packaging.