Product Overview
Our organic German Blue Chamomile CO2 extract has a rich, comforting, sweet-warm, herbaceous aroma with light fruit undertones that will offer a pleasant-smelling material to work with when formulating and during application. Some of the active constituents found in Blue Chamomile CO2 are chamazulene, bisabolol, matricin, and bisabolol oxide.[1] Matricin, a constituent found in the raw plant material – specifically the flowers[2] – is not compromised during the CO2 process.[3]
The use of natural carbon dioxide in the form of a supercritical fluid is an environmentally friendly extraction technique and provides a pure product with no solvent residues, no inorganic salts, no heavy metals, and no reproducible microorganisms.[4]
Chamazulene and (-)α-bisabolol (a sesquiterpene alcohol) are considered to be the primary constituents in Blue Chamomile oil responsible for its effects.[5] The cooling and chamazulene-rich oils, that also include Blue Tansy and Blue Yarrow, are revered for their complex aromas and skincare benefits. Blue Chamomile is a popular fruity-herbal addition to skin creams and massage blends, however, be prepared to work with this thick paste-like extract and the green-blue to brown color it may impart.
1 Industry communication.
2 Rhind, Jennifer Peace. Essential Oils – A Handbook for Aromatherapy Practice, 2nd ed., 2012, p. 150.
3 Industry communication.
4 Ibid.
5 Rhind, Jennifer Peace. Essential Oils – A Handbook for Aromatherapy Practice, 2nd ed., 2012, p. 150.
