# Tagetes (Marigold)

> Wildcrafted Tagetes flowers from India, steam-distilled into a pungent, green marigold oil that aromatherapists reach for in foot-care blends. Not for pregnancy or small children.

Price: 12.00 USD · in stock

## About
The marigold bed at the end of summer, pungent and green, its flowers bright against the fading garden. Tagetes is that scent, distilled: a sharp, herbaceous oil with real presence in a blend, so a little goes a long way.It is steam-distilled from the wildcrafted flowers of Tagetes minuta in India. Do not confuse it with Calendula, another marigold oil with very different properties. The aromatherapists Shirley Price and Valerie Worwood have both written of it for the feet, and that is where it belongs in your cabinet: in a well-diluted foot-care blend, worked in at the end of a long day of standing.DetailsBotanical name: Tagetes minutaOrigin: IndiaMethod: steam distillation of the flowersWildcraftedShelf life: about 1 to 2 years after openingHow to useDilute it well in a carrier oil before it touches the skin, and massage a little into the feet. For external use only; never take it internally. Do not use it in pregnancy or with small children. To extend its shelf life, store it in the dark and refrigerated, and decant a half-empty bottle into a smaller one so it stays full.A small bottle of late-summer garden for the end of long days on your feet.