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Today’s featured essential oil has many therapeutic applications,
but when it comes to skin care, that’s where she really shines!

Essential Oil of Carrot Seed
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Geographical source:  Hungary, United States

Plant Part: The essential oil is distilled from the seeds of the wild carrot (commonly known as Queen Anne’s Lace). It is not from the sweet carrots enjoyed by bunnies. Many consider wild carrot to be a common roadside weed which demonstrates how much our plant world has to offer if we would just get to know it better!

Oil Characteristics: Carrot Seed essential oil is orange/amber in color and smells sweet and earthy.  I love it! In fact, one of my favorite face soaps is Wild Carrot Soap made by the Pompeii Street Soap Company. It has a classic carrot seed aroma because organic Carrot Seed essential oil is in the recipe.

Chemical Families: A complex oil, Carrot Seeds is primarily high in sesquiterpenes and sesquiterpenols (high in carotol), but also has small amounts of components from the monoterpene, monoterpenol, ester and oxides families.

Therapeutic Properties🙁click here for a glossary that explains what some of these word mean):

  • Antibacterial
  • Supports the liver which, in turn, gives a healthy glow to the skin
  • Skin Healing Warrior for everything from burns, maturing skin, wrinkles to eczema and psoriasis
  • Cicatrisant action for wounds (helps the skin to heal and form scar tissue)
  • Can have a mild diuretic action

Some Suggested Applications:

  • Renowned for its benefits to mature skin, you can always add 1-2 drops of this oil to any skin care product to soften tissue.
  • Add to organic Aloe vera gel to help heal burns and regenerate skin.
  • Because of its detoxifying effect on the liver, it’s helpful for arthritis, gout, edema even rheumatism making it a great addition to massage oils and baths.
  • Add 2 drops in a facial steams to rejuvenate your skin.
  • Diffusing Carrot Seed can be grounding and effective in relieving stress and anxiety and may be helpful when doing energy work that focuses on the sacral chakra.

Blends well with: Citrus oils (bergamot, lemon, orange, lime, mandarin, yuzu), Lavender, Melissa, Neroli, Petitgrain

A Recipe Using Carrot Seed:
This recipe is designed to stimulate red blood cells, soften wrinkles and add elasticity to the skin. 
Mature Skin Renewal Lotion
Ingredients:
2 oz glass jar
2 oz unscented lotion
10 drops Carrot Seed essential oil
8 drops Frankincense essential oil
3 drops Neroli essential oil
Directions:  Gently rub into face, around eyes and neck before bed and again in the morning.

Subtle Properties (vibrational and energetic):  sacral-chakra-300x300Because of its color and affinity with the liver and kidneys, Carrot Seed oil is a real friend to the sacral (2nd) chakra.  We balance and clear the second chakra with orange oils like Carrot Seed and, in particular, this oil will help ground your sacral chakra as well as your emotions.  Like all seed oils, this one also symbolizes birth and renewal and can be a great oil to use during a period of transition (such as a change of seasons) or when you would like to celebrate or call forth someting new in your life.  A nice affirmation for Carrot Seed oil is “I welcome and embrace all the changes in my life.”

Fun Facts:  queen-annes-lace-tiny-flowersQueen Anne’s Lace is a summer wild flower and can be found growing along the sides of roads, in fields and vacant lots and grows throughout the United States. Her wide white flowers are actually a collection of many flowers, each growing on a stem that radiates out in a starburst pattern.

The plant name has a fun origin: The flower was growing in the royal gardens when Queen Anne became bride to James I. Queen Anne was an accomplished lace maker and she challenged her ladies-in-waiting to a contest, to see who could make lace as beautiful as the flower. The Queen won the contest and the flower won her name!

WARNING! Carrot Seed VS Poison Hemlock:  If you plan on picking Carrot Seed and distilling it for either the essential oil or the hydrosol, please please please be careful. Carrot Seed has a deadly look-alike called Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum).  Poison Hemlock flowers are white with 5 petals and no sepals.  They have smooth stems and can be very tall, as much as 8′.  Even touching Hemlock can poison you, and ingestion means almost certain death unless treated immediately. As the toxins from the plant absorb into your system, you slowly become paralyzed and the respiratory system fails. You can see what it looks like HERE and read about it on Wikipedia, and watch a short video about it on YouTube.

Safety Information: According to Robert Tisserand, Carrot Seed is contraindicated in pregnancy and while breastfeeding.

MyAromatic Wisdom Insight Card TM for Carrot Seed:
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