Orange blossom extract, a essential ingredient in North African and Arabic gastronomy and an excellent accompaniment to ice creams, yogurts and beverages, has been used for centuries in the kitchen by women from the Middle East and around the Mediterranean.
Its delicious fragrance acts on the well-being and relaxation of nervous or stress-prone people; therefore it becomes a staple of traditional ceremonies (weddings, births, circumcisions, engagement). Also used in cosmetics, orange blossom extract provides harmony and peace. Mixed with essential oils and argan oil, to combine the virtues, it becomes an excellent body care, and massage oil that is on the one hand fragrant, and on the other hand toning and anti-stress.
Arabs mastered, more than a thousand years ago, the principle of Greek distillation to apply it on the, yet fragile, orange blossom, in order to extract its essential oil. Orange blossom extract is known for its sedative qualities, antidepressants and anti-anxiolytics. Qualities that have a great impact when using orange blossom extract for aromatherapy.