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Description :
Jasmine is a small bush with white flowers
native to India and Egypt. It is cultivated in
France, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, India and
Egypt.
There are two kinds of jasmine used in the
manufacture of essential oils: jasmine grown in
the region of Grasse jasmine and cultivated in
Egypt and India. The essential oil of jasmine
oil is very expensive since it takes a very
large number of flowers for a small amount of
essential oil.
In addition, the extraction method can explain
the cost. This is the method by enfleurage. The
idea is to drop the jasmine flowers once they
have made all their essential oil on cotton
cloth soaked in olive oil. Finally, we eliminate
the olive oil with alcohol and it retains the
pure essence of jasmine.
There is another method to produce the essential
oil of jasmine, but it is not used in
aromatherapy for its quality is much lower. This
alternative method is to directly extract the
flower petals with alcohols of oil.
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