Orange oil: features and methods of use

The aroma of orange brings to life fresh notes and a sense of celebration.Orange oil, which is the source of this smell both by itself and as part of various cosmetics and drugs has a lot of advantages. It is used in the treatment of various diseases, it helps to make a beautiful body and solve various domestic issues. You just need to be able to properly dispose of this valuable product.

Trees with “suns on the branches” have long attracted people. Over the centuries, orange has been cultivated. Growing such fragrant fruits turned into a business. Today there are whole plantations of orange trees. The fruits are not only sold in natural form, but also processed. Juice is squeezed out of them, and essential oil is extracted from crusts.

There are several varieties of orange. It is bitter - the so-called orange, sweet, as well as red, more like a tangerine with a dark orange crust and sweet flesh burgundy, almost purple. The essential oil of this orange has a red or bright orange color.

Bitter oranges, in general, are not suitable to eat them, but the oil they have a special, pronounced flavor. Sweet oranges make juice, and their oil is not as aromatic as that of bitter. But his skin is very much.

Ether is isolated from them by cold pressing or almost simultaneously with the squeezing of juice. In the second case, the product is slightly worse in quality, but it is produced much more than with cold-pressed.

Orange oil has a lot of useful properties.

• It perfectly reduces inflammation. It can, for example, be used for bleeding gums.
• Relieves unpleasant sensations in the joints, muscles. Effective with headache.
• Relieves spasms (including during menstruation).
• Acts as a sedative. Relieves stress, anxiety, returns normal sleep.
• It removes eye strain, makes it sharper.
• Spurs immunity. Prevents the development of colds.
• Acts as an antiseptic for oral diseases, colds.
• Useful for the gastrointestinal tract. Helps restore proper stomach function.

• Acts as a bile and diuretic. It prevents the formation of kidney stones.
• Helps to lose weight, eliminates the first signs of cellulite.
• It normalizes the ratio of carbohydrates and fats, contributing to weight loss.
• Reduces swelling.
• Lowers blood cholesterol.
• Prevents atherosclerosis.
• Serves for the prevention of vascular and heart diseases.
• Normalizes pressure, and cleans the blood supply system.
• Gives you the opportunity to concentrate.
• It makes skin lighter, prolongs its youth.

Unfortunately, this product is not useful to everyone.

The obstacles to its use are:

• irritation of the skin;
• allergic reaction;
• lactation;
• being under the sun (using orange ether increases the likelihood of sunburn and spots on the skin).

But it must also be borne in mind that this oil with an eye should be used by pregnant women, people who have chronically low blood pressure, as well as people with gallstone disease.

The scope of application of orange oil is very wide. It is used for wrapping, massage, creating a mask (in cosmetology). They take a bath with him and fill aroma lamps with this substance.There are a huge number of various recipes for the use of such a product to improve the condition of the skin, hair and nails, which received excellent feedback from those who used the appropriate recommendations.

Orange oil is able to normalize the work of the sebaceous glands, relieve dandruff and fungal diseases on the head.

To improve the condition of the hair, you can take fifteen milliliters of jojoba oil, add a few drops of eucalyptus and orange oil, mix all this thoroughly and spread the hair, “especially light” on the damaged ends. Such procedures are useful for brittle, like straw, hair.

If you overcome dandruff, you need to mix a little burdock with a few drops of orange and eucalyptus oil. Rub into the skin, wait a long time, and then wash the hair with shampoo.

To solve the problem, you can use one egg yolk, pounded with honey, in which olive oil (three milliliters) is added, plus three drops of orange and cedar oil.

To make hair grow faster, once in three days, orange, lemon and grape seed oils mixed into one whole are rubbed into the skin.

With dry scalp and weakened hair, take three tablespoons of olive oil, they add three drops of orange and ylang-ylang oils. Apply to the skin and spread it over the hair. Such oil procedures can be carried out on days when there is no need to go out or take off a hat in public.

To prevent hair loss, you can use a mask, which includes the oils of pine, chamomile and orange. Three times a week, this composition is rubbed into the skin. And also a few drops of orange oil can be added to the shampoo during shampooing. Gradually hair will get stronger and gain healthy shine.

Effective against hair loss mask of sunflower oil, orange ether, lemon juice and brandy. Two tablespoons of sunflower are heated to 37 degrees, five drops of orange oil are added, a teaspoon of juice and alcohol. Stir, lightly rub fingers into the skin and apply on the entire length of the hair. Then cover the head with a polyethylene cap and a towel.

Wait forty minutes and wash with shampoo. After that, the hair should dry by itself (without using a hair dryer). Thanks to such procedures, the hair roots are strengthened, the hair is no longer brittle.

To prevent dry hair and scalp, when applying aromatic compounds instead of perfume containing alcohol, you can use orange oil. A few drops of the product is applied to the comb and comb through the hair. In addition to the curls soaked with a wonderful smell, they will receive useful substances, gain strength, and the mood of their owner will be elevated throughout the day.

Orange ether is an indispensable tool in cosmetology.

• It helps mature skin to tighten and provides its elasticity - due to the effects of oil, collagen is more actively produced.
• This substance removes from the skin excess fat, pores become clean, taper. Acne disappears.
• Such an oily substance removes traces of scars and blemishes after inflammatory processes in the pores.
• The product relieves the skin of fine wrinkles.
• It acts on her relaxing.
• Dry skin under the influence of orange oil gets the required amount of moisture. Its content in the skin becomes normal.
• Ether stimulates regeneration and growth of renewed cells in the skin.
• Prevents dermatitis of various origin, is effective for purulent inflammation.

With aromatic substance you can prepare a nourishing face mask. It takes three drops of orange ether and eight milliliters of avocado oil, which must be mixed and applied to the skin (except for the areas around the eyes). Hold the composition for twenty minutes, then rinse. The skin will become more elastic and healthy looking.Wrinkles smooth out.

To restore the skin prone to dryness, mix thirty milliliters of hazelnut, jojoba and avocado oils, add to this a couple of drops of orange and rosewood oil, and also a drop of vanilla, jasmine and geranium oils. All this is as it should be mixed and put on face for thirty minutes. Then rinse with warm water.

Nutritious mask can be prepared from three berries of Victoria, which should be carefully kneaded, three drops of orange oil and a teaspoon of cream, mixed into a single mass. This mix is ​​applied on the face, wait twenty to thirty minutes and wash off.

To rid the skin of unwanted pigment, take a teaspoon of sour cream, two teaspoons of cucumber, brought to a mushy state and a teaspoon of orange ether. Mix and apply on face. Stand up for fifteen or twenty minutes. Wash off.

Almond oil mask will help improve the condition of aging skin. (10 milliliters) in which orange, chamomile, sandalwood and rose oils are added drop by drop.

All components mix, apply the oil composition on the face. After half an hour, wipe off the excess from the skin with a wet cotton pad. This mask should be repeated systematically (once a week). The skin will become softer and smoother to the touch, and fine wrinkles will disappear.

To soften the skin, a mask is made of a mixture of yolk, a drop of orange oil and the same amount of non-nerium oil. This composition is applied to the face, waiting for it to dry, and then wash off. Treat the skin with a moisturizing cream. This procedure is done several times a month at regular intervals.

For oily skin that has an unhealthy luster, a mask made of orange oil and blue clay is suitable. Clay powder is mixed with a liquid squeezed from a grapefruit, add egg white (from one egg) and bitter orange oil. Wash off ten minutes after application to face. A nourishing cream is applied to the skin.

Using orange ether, you can make a lotion for oily skin. To ten milliliters of alcohol add four drops of citrus ether, the same amount of chamomile and geranium oil. Pour half a glass of water. The resulting agent is placed in a glass vessel through which the light can not penetrate, and put in a cold place. In the morning and evening, wipe the skin with a cotton swab dipped in this liquid.

For problematic skin prone to fat, effective steam bath with orange oil. (The only contraindication is couperosis). To organize such a procedure, you need to boil ½ liter of water, cool it to eighty degrees, add a few drops of orange and one drop of chamomile, sandalwood oils, as well as levzey.

Throwing a towel to concentrate steam, you should lean over the hot liquid so that moisture gets on your face. Suffer it for about ten minutes. If steam baths are organized once a week, the pores will remain clean and narrow.

Orange oil can be used for weight loss. In cosmetology, it is used as a remedy for cellulite, poisoning the life of a huge number of women. This citrus ether enhances blood circulation in problem areas, accelerates the flow of lymph and softens the skin.

Effective is the anti-cellulite mask with grapefruit. For its preparation take:

• 6 drops of orange oil;
• 50 milliliters of jojoba and hazelnut oil;
• 10 drops of cypress oil;
• 6 drops of cedar oil;
• 5 drops of lemon and lime juices;
• 8 drops of grapefruit juice.

It is good to mix all components, to grease problem areas with this structure and to massage with the help of a rough washcloth within ten minutes. With this mask, blood circulation is enhanced, and the skin becomes smoother.

After the procedure, wash off the oil mixture, then make a contrast shower.

You can fight cellulite with a wrap. Four tablespoons of clay powder (instead of it you can take the thick coffee left after making the drink) are kneaded with warm water, five drops of orange oil are added to this “dough”, brought to homogeneity and smeared with problem parts of the body. Wrap a film, lie down, cover with a blanket and wait an hour.

About the same looks like a wrap with honey and orange oil. Three drops of honey is taken in three drops of citrus ether and peppermint oil.

Before the wrapping procedure, you need to stand in the shower and wait for the skin to warm up and steam out. Apply the prepared composition of honey and oils on the skin, wrap the body with a film, and put something warm on top. After half an hour, you can return to the shower and wash off the anti-cellulite agent. Then use cream against the effect of "orange peel".

When carrying out a massage for a greater efficiency, you can take a couple of tablespoons of honey, drop five drops of oil into it. Before the massage, you should sit in the bath or stand under the shower, rubbing the skin in the places to be massaged. Oil-honey remedy gently rub into the skin. When the honey thickens, palms begin to press to the body and abruptly tear off the skin. In areas with cellulite, this massage is carried out up to fifteen minutes.

Along the way, the mixture on the palms will turn white. This is normal. Should not frighten and some pain of the massage itself. At the end of the remnants of honey-oil mixture should be washed in the shower.

Massage is carried out once every seven days. In total, it is necessary to hold ten sessions, after which it is possible to return to them only after three months.

A good tool in the "anti-cellulite fight" is a bath with essential orange oil. Two tablespoons of milk should be mixed with four drops of oil. Pour warm water into the bath - the water temperature in it should not exceed forty degrees, so that the beneficial properties of the oil are not lost. Add the prepared milky-oily liquid there, and sit in the bath for about twenty minutes. This should be done every other day. Enough course of fifteen baths. Then you need a break in a month. If necessary, after this time the bath can be resumed.

Orange oil can not only buy in the store, but also to make at home. If, for example, oranges are always in the refrigerator, which means that the peel appears, or after the holiday there are orange skins that have not yet dried, they must be washed with hot water, chopped with a knife and placed in a jar.

Pour into it the vegetable oil without a pronounced odor (amiss, for example, olive, sunflower), so that the crusts are completely under the oil layer. Remove the container in a dark corner for four days. During this time, the necessary essential substances should be released from the peel.

To continue the work, slightly heat the composition by placing the jar in a metal bowl with water on a slow fire, squeeze out everything in the skin of the peel, strain it. Use oily liquid for their own purposes.

If the characteristics of homemade orange oil do not cause doubt, then it is not always possible to rely on the quality of what is in the pharmacy. It is better to consult with experts about the best orange oils on the market before purchasing a product from one manufacturer or another.

A good product has a pronounced yellow-orange or brown color. High-quality oil liquid is poured from the bottle easily and smoothly. It leaves a yellow mark on the skin, which is good. This means that the oil is free of impurities, and the color pigment is merely a remnant of the peel that has got into the oil during processing.

This tool can be sold only in bubbles of dark color. Under the influence of the sun, orange oil loses its valuable qualities.

Good - it will be useful for the beauty of hands. They can strengthen the nails, ridding them of the problem of exfoliation, giving them a brilliant healthy look. Ether will make softer and cuticle. To get the desired effect, you should lubricate the nails and the skin around them with this oil once a week.

Such a substance can be used in aromatherapy. It makes sense to add it to a special pendant, which is worn on the neck as an ornament or put in a pocket. The smell of an orange that accompanies a person in such a case helps to calm down and not get into a stressful state. And also this aroma oil helps those who do not tolerate being in transport.

Help improve the mood of the bath with the addition of five to six drops of citrus ether in the water. It is only necessary to take into account that it should get into the bath, being mixed with some other substances - milk, kefir or cream.

For aromatherapy, you can use the capabilities of a special lamp.which when placed in it a few drops of ether spreads its smell around the room. For twenty square meters will be enough five drops of orange oil. When the smell fills the room, the alarm will go away, and a good mood will return.

Such procedures are good for getting rid of the discomfort of adults, and for children who fall asleep better in the "orange atmosphere".

If there is no aroma lamp, you can add ten drops of oil to half a liter of water, and sprinkle this mixture in the room from a normal water sprayer as needed.

Orange oil in the "community" with lavender can relieve fatigue. Five to six drops of citrus need to take the same amount of lavender oil, mix and rub into the wrist to feel the scent.

There are many recipes for using this oil for medical purposes.

• In case of sore throat or stomatitis, rinses can be made by adding a drop of this agent to the glass in water.
• When gums or teeth hurt, you can combine vegetable and orange oils in a 1: 1 ratio and make lotions in sick places. If tortured runny nose, the same composition can be lubricated passages in the nose.
• To remove the pain in the area of ​​an organ, you can make a compress with orange oil. In a glass filled with water half, add five drops of ether. Take a piece of natural fabric and soak it with orange water. Apply on the skin where it hurts. Top to make a dry dressing. Wait at least half an hour. (The exposure time can reach one hundred and twenty minutes).
• To remove PMS, take fifty milliliters of vegetable oil, add five drops of orange, lavender oil and juniper oil. With this tool, make a massage in the lower abdomen.

• Having made a mixture of vegetable oil (a teaspoon) with three drops of orange, you can rub the skin at the folds. It eliminates joint pain.
• To reduce inflammation in arthritis, you can mix ten drops of citrus ether with ahead of melted coconut oil, and then rub into the skin until the mixture is absorbed.
• If the skin is affected by a fungus, orange oil is applied to the problem areas. It is better to do this just before bedtime. For greater effect, you can mix orange and tea tree oil. The procedure is repeated every day until the problem disappears.
• Orange oil can be added to tea. Two drops on a glass is the limit. Drink a drink should be no more than once a day.This will be enough to make blood cleaner, increase appetite and normalize metabolic processes. This tool will help reduce pressure and sleep well at night.

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