Has a wonderfully sweet floral scent. This hydrosol of Pelargonium graveolens is cooling for hot flashes. Geranium is thought to be a cellular regenerative, thus the hydrosol is the toner of choice for mature skin, or the perfect liquid to use in creating a facial masque. Like Geranium EO, Rose Geranium Hydrosol is recommended for balancing combination skin, since it balances both oily and dry skin. Emotionally, this lovely spray can bring balance to the psyches.

The "all-purpose" Essential Oil plant also yields an "all purpose" Hydrosol. Lavender Water is gentle, balancing for all skin types, cooling in summer's heat, soothing sunburns, healing irritation, gently tones oily, dry and mature skin, good for jet lag, mental fatigue. Emotionally, Lavender Water is relaxing and revitalizing. It can ease stress and reduce mental fatigue. Lavender is an "adaptor," adapting itself to your body and your psyche's needs, soothing or revitalizing a needed. Can be added to mineral water or all dessert foods.

Spray it in the room when you are feeling anxious or stressed. Instant release. Make a sorbet of a blend of the rose and neroli hydrosols. A drop or two in a glass of spring water is soothing and emotionally settling. A drop added to a cup of black coffee (Neroli can help calm "coffee jitters). Use a spritz of this to calm your cat when it needs a trip to the vet. Use Neroli Hydrosol to calm nervous animals before bathing/grooming them. Works like a charm! Use as a body spray during labor and delivery to stay cool and calm. Use as a toner on a regular basis to help with thread veins (couperose). No end to the uses of this sweetly scented floral water.

Rosewater has been used through the millenniums for religious ceremonies, as a courtesy to guests, for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing, even as an aphrodisiac. Rosewater stimulates the skin, heightening the blood flow. It controls and balances sebum production, making it useful for both dry and oily skin. It can balance and restore the skin's Ph and helps tighten pores. Its antibacterial properties help fight acne giving troubled skin a gentle, rather than a harsh treatment. It is reputed to be useful in the treatment of all sorts of dermatitis. In Bulgaria, there is much scientific research being done about the therapeutic and medicinal benefits of Rosewater indicates that Rosewater, taken internally is effective against strep and staph infections, among many others. Rosewater has been recommended as a gargle or throat spray for sore or inflamed throats.

It may be used externally, as a facial or body spray, or in a compress. Some recommend taking a teaspoon of the hydrosol to calm stress and anxiety. Others recommend a rosewater douche to increase sex drive; it seems to act on both the body and the psyche to gently bring down barriers.

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