9 Uses for Rose Absolute Essential oil - Healthy Focus

Rose Absolute Essential oil‘Roses are red’-well sometimes they are, but there are over 100 species of rose and they come in an array of colors. I doubt there is a flower that conjures as many images as the rose; it has romantic, aromatic connotations and is a feature in well-tended gardens around the world.Roses are actually the source of 2 types of oil; the first and by far the most expensive is rose otto (or attar of rose). The extraction is involved and includes multiple stages of “first water” and “second water”-where the oil is extracted and further concentrated.The name “Otto” probably came from the introduction of the oil to Europe by the Ottoman empire.Rose essential oil is extracted by steam distillation from the petals of the Damask rose (Rosa damascena). The extraction process is extremely difficult and has a very low yield; in fact it takes around 60,000 roses to produce just one ounce of rose essential oil.The difficulty of extraction and for pure rose oil is responsible f...