Essential Oils
Tansy, Blue (Moroccan Chamomile).
Blue tansy from Morocco, a deep indigo oil with a fresh, honeyed apple scent, rich in azulene and lovely in skin care blends at gentle dilutions.
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About this product
Tip the bottle and the oil runs a deep, inky indigo, the blue of the sky an hour after sunset. Then the scent arrives, and it is not what the color promises: fresh and honeyed, with the sweetness of a ripe apple.
This is Blue Tansy, also called Moroccan Chamomile: Tanacetum annuum, organically produced and steam-distilled from the flowers in Morocco. It is the annual tansy, not the high-thujone Tanacetum vulgare that grows wild in the American Southwest and is often warned against in aromatherapy. Its high azulene content makes it a lovely alternative to German Chamomile or Yarrow in skin care blends, where it pairs especially well with Helichrysum, and a touch of it rounds out Pine and Cypress in the diffuser.
Details
- Botanical name: Tanacetum annuum
- Origin: Morocco
- Method: steam distillation of the flowers
- Organically produced
- Shelf life: about 3 to 4 years after opening
- Also sold in a pre-made inhaler
How to use
Use it in weak dilutions, under 5 percent, where it does its best work, blended into a carrier oil with Helichrysum for skin care or added by the drop to a diffuser. For external and aromatic use only; never take it internally. Store it in the dark and refrigerated, and decant a half-empty bottle into a smaller one to extend its shelf life.
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