The beauty of hydrosols

Hydrosols often called herbal distillates or floral waters. Hydrosols are specially manufactured waters that not only lock in the aromas but also the claimed healing and therapeutic powers of certain herbs and plants such as lavender, rose, neroli etc.

While hydrosol is the most common name for these types of products, other common names include hydrolate, herbal water, and essential water. With all the different names, however, they are usually referring to the same thing, especially by professionals: a often discarded by-product of essential oils.

When essential oils are made, the most concentrated formulas are bottled and sold. The less concentrated mixtures, those that still have many of the same amounts of plant essence inside. Hydrosols are made using the exact same process as essential oils: steam distillation. The process uses only the power of steam and heat to release the most powerful components locked inside plants.

Steam distillation starts by placing parts of a plant that are rich in botanical extracts, like leaves or petals, into a steam distillery. The steam distillery is then injected with piping hot steam, which causes the plants to degrade and open up. The steam then mixes with the materials inside the plants, forming hot herbal distillates that then rise to the top of the distillery. Once it reaches the top, the water condenses with the cool roof and runs down a tube into a completely different chamber, where the water is collected. This water is what becomes the hydrosol.

We only use pure organic Immortelle, Neroli and Rose hydrsol in place of conventional water for their therapeutic benefits on the skin.