Explore nature’s bounty through our monthly series dedicated to a special plant. From medicinal herbs to houseplants, each month we shine the spotlight on a new plant, sharing its properties, uses and ways to incorporate it into your everyday life. Get ready to reconnect with the plant world that surrounds us.
Our Rose producer in Iran
Essenciagua has been working for years with a cooperative in the arid highlands of the Middle East, on the ancient Silk Roads. It promotes the traditional harvesting of the Damask rose in a singular approach that is both certified organic and socially responsible. At the height of the season, between May and June, the pickers rise at the crack of dawn and take over the flower-filled fields. 🌹 The flower must be harvested between 5am and 9am, before the heat causes its delicate essence to...
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Peppermint & Spearmint: did you know their benefits and uses?
🌱🌿 Peppermint & Spearmint: did you know their respective benefits and uses to make the right choice? ㅤ 🌿 Peppermint hydrosol is a must-have with analgesic, anesthetic, tonic and stimulating virtues. It is used to: 1️⃣ effectively relieve digestive disorders (nausea, vomiting and indigestion). 2️⃣ stimulate your cognitive abilities and support your concentration. ㅤ 🌱 Spearmint hydrosol offers digestive, sedative and antifungal properties. It is used to: 1️⃣ soothe feelings of anxiety and...
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Plant of the month - Rose
🌹The Damask rose is a bush that looks a little like the wild rosehip, but with abundant, full, powerfully aromatic pink flowers. Its cultivation follows that of the ancient silk routes from Syria, Iran, Turkey,Bulgaria and Morocco on sandy or rocky soils. Essenciagua’s selection comes from the highest, driest plateaus in the Middle East, at an altitude of 3,000 m. Queen of flowers, the rose is the very embodiment of perfection and beauty. Its fragrance is complete, subtle and harmonious....
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Plant of the month Lovage
🌿Herbarium of Essenciagua - La livèche🌿 Lovage is a perennial medicinal plant in the Apiaceae family that grows spontaneously in the Pyrenees. It’s a kind of large wild celery in scent, stature and foliage. In phytotherapy, lovage is renowned for its draining action on the emunctories (liver, kidneys, skin), promoting the elimination of toxins. At Essenciagua, we distill the roots of organic lovage of French origin, which contains coumarin, starch, vitamin C and tannin. 🌿 With its Celery...
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Rosemary Essential Oil from Pays d'Oc
🌿 Rosemary Essential Oil from the Pays d’Oc: a precious essence with countless virtues! 🌿 ㅤ If you’re looking for a versatile essential oil to enrich your daily life, Rosemary from the Pays d’Oc is your best ally. ㅤ Rosemary from the Pays d’Oc is renowned for its multiple benefits: 🌿 It stimulates blood circulation, bringing a feeling of vitality. 🌿 It relieves muscle and joint pain, offering welcome comfort. 🌿 It promotes harmonious digestion, contributing to your inner well-being. 🌿 It...
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Focus on our Blackcurrant hydrosol
From the rich terroir of Burgundy🍷, our organic Blackcurrant, and by extension our resulting hydrolat, is one of our “Grands Crus” 100% 🇫🇷. With its fresh, fruity fragrance very faithful to the plant when crushed, Blackcurrant hydrosol is rich in anti-inflammatory properties 🌿 As a drink, it helps soothe the pain of osteoarthritis in the elderly, encourages drinking, unsweetened (!), and can be just as gentle on our pets. What’s more, it has a diuretic effect, stimulating elimination by the...
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Vitality boost with Rosemary hydrosol
🌿💪 Prepare for back-to-school with a vitality boost! Our Rosemary hydrosol is your tonic ally to relax aches and pains and prepare your muscles before and after physical exertion. ㅤ To get back into shape, adopt this routine: 🏃♂️ Before sport: Add a few drops of Pays d’Oc Rosemary hydrosol to your water bottle for a revitalizing drink. It will help you warm up your muscles, improve your endurance and prevent muscle soreness. ㅤ 🧘♀️ After exercise: In addition to drinking with Rosemary...
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🌿 Essenciagua Herbarium - Italian Helichrysum ssp. italicum
Native to the Mediterranean region, this plant of the Asteraceae family thrives in the acidic Mediterranean climates and soils of Corsica/Sardinia, while adapting very well to cultivation in roughly equivalent biotopes in the south of France. Also known as “immortelle” because of its long flowering period, this yellow flower is a concentrate of sun (helios) and gold (chrysos). The essential oil it contains is exceptional, a powerful anticoagulant, the most powerful natural anti-haematoma...
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Essenciagua Herbarium - Noble Laurel
🌿 Herbarium d’Essenciagua - Laurier Noble 🌿 Laurier Noble, Laurus Nobilis like many Laureaceae (Tea tree, Ravintsara…), is famous for its purifying and soothing properties. It is well adapted to our regions, where it was once planted on every farm. At Essenciagua, we carefully distill the plant, fresh, 100% organic and from the Occitanie region. Hydrolats and essential oils are of the utmost interest to us, as this plant has a wide range of health benefits. Among other things, it helps : 🌿to...
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🌿Herbarium of Essenciagua - Cassis de Bourgogne🌿
At Essenciagua, we distill the bud of #Cassis, recognized for its many benefits and a leading anti-inflammatory phyto plant. The whole plant is aromatic. The leaf is used in phyto, but the bud, highly prized in gemmo, proves extremely valuable in its Aroma forms. We love this real “Grands crus” speciality in our range, which rings in the arrival of spring for us!🍃✨ And every year, we seek out our blackcurrants grown by our organic growers precisely in these Grands Crus territories of...
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Herbarium Essenciagua - Peppermint
Native to England, this perennial has an intoxicating fragrance of fresh minty and peppery notes, which give it its powerful flavor. It is known for its multiple digestive, analgesic, anesthetic, tonic and stimulating health benefits. It is a great aromatherapy classic. While mint essential oil is now largely imported, Essenciagua has once again chosen to develop it locally, close to its distillery, and to sign off on its distillation. This guarantees true traceability and artisanal quality...
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