Why Natural Selfcare?

In considering our goal of achieving ultimate peak at every pillar of our wellness, we first must cleanse ourselves and our environment of all that is toxic. It is said that on average, we use over 40 products known to be toxic around on daily basis.

According to EWG, these toxins are in our personal care products, household cleaning items, supplements, and food, and drinking water. Some have serious consequences such as being known carcinogens.

At BlueFlower, we carefully access to ensure that our products are:

          

Our products are premium, our educational material is credible, our essential oil ingredients are pure & unadulterated. Start using BlueFlower products as your first step of a better health, better environment, and better you!

A Brief History of Aromatherapy

Ancient Cultures and Essential Oils

Ancient Egypt

Distillation

Avicenna

Antibacterial Properties of Essential Oils

Antiseptic Properties of Essential Oils

In 1910, Rene Gattefosse discovered the healing properties of lavender after severely burning his hands in a laboratory explosion. He later used the wound healing and antiseptic properties of essential oils in the care of soldiers in military hospitals during WWI. Gattefosse coined the term “aromatherapy” with the 1937 publication of his book, of the same name. Gattefosse’s book has since been translated into English as Gattefosse’s Aromatherapy (1993). Dr. Jean Valnet, a French army surgeon used essential oils in the treatment of war wounds during the French Indochina War and wrote the book, Practice of Aromatherapy, which was translated into the English in 1964.

In the last 200 years, there has been a break in using aromatic botanicals in our daily lives. Mediations have become our first stop rather than last resort.   Usage of antibiotics, painkillers, and other medications have skyrocketed and we don’t seem to be healthier. Academic and regulatory organizations have started advocating integrative medicine where we can use the plethora of knowledge passed to us by our ancestors as well as the luxury of modern medicine.

Essential Oils and Scientific Research

Botanical and Essential Oil Based Products

Botanical based products & essential oils are gaining momentum for good reasons, they are natural, potent, effective, and safe.

Botanicals are powerful plant extracts and oils derived from flowers, herbs, nuts, seeds, roots and berries. And when harnessed in the right way, they can do wonders for our health.

Cleopatra used black cumin seed oil as a beauty treatment, and calendula has been used as a skin-healing poultice for hundreds of years. In general, seeds tend to be botanical powerhouses because everything a plant needs to grow is in that seed, resulting in concentrated nutrition for the skin. ‘Concentrated inside each seed is the power to fuel new life,’ says Hirsch. ‘It provides fundamental nutrients, from antioxidants to vitamins.’

Popular product ingredients like rosehip and grapeseed oil have been proven effective over time as many have been used in cleansing and moisturizing routines for generations and in clinical research trials. For example, black cumin seed oil has been studied over 200 times, confirming that it holds a host of antioxidants to regenerate and repair aging skin.

An essential oil is a natural product extracted from a single plant species. Not all plants produce essential oils, and in the plants that do, the essential oil may be found in the roots, stems, leaves, flowers, or fruits.

Hippocrates, known as the father of modern medicine, maintained 2,500 years ago that “the key to good health rests on having a daily aromatic bath and scented massage’. Some of the plant materials Dioscorides wrote about in his Materia Medica 100 AD include many of the herbs and essential oils we use today including cardamom, cinnamon, myrrh, basil, fennel, frankincense, juniper, pine, rose, rosemary, and thyme. Scented ointments and oils were recognized as having great benefit on both the physical and psychological level. Bay laurel was used to produce a trance-like state; rose, myrtle and coriander were respected for their aphrodisiac properties, while myrrh and marjoram were used as sedatives.

BlueFlower® products use natural and pure botanical based products and/or essential oils as our main ingredients in order to ensure that our products are best in class. Remember, skin is the largest organ on your body, take good care of it!

Our Ingredients