Oil Origins: Our Favourite Florals Pt. 1

Our garden of floral essential oils is blooming with some of the most beloved botanicals doTERRA can offer. This bouquet of flower-derived oils is ready to be picked and planted into your personal essential oils collection. Get ready to earn your green thumb as we spotlight each member of this fragrant bunch, and you discover what makes each floral essential oil unique.

What Are Floral Essential Oils?

This arrangement of essential oils come from the flowers, petals, and sometimes the stems of the plants from which they are sourced. With one exception, the plants on this list go through a steam distillation process, where a combination of heated steam and gentle pressure produce these fabulously fragrant essential oils. There’s no need to wait until it’s their peak growing seasons—you can delight in the fragrances of your favourite flowers any time of year when you add these essential oils to your personal care routine.

Meet the first of the florals: Blue Tansy oil, Clary Sage oil, Geranium oil, Helichrysum oil, doTERRA Touch® Jasmine, and Lavender oil. We’ve arranged them all together in this post so you can get familiar with them and learn what makes each one significant. While their sources are similar, each floral essential oil offers its own admirable aroma and unique uses and benefits.

Blue Tansy Oil

Native to northern Morocco, the highly fragrant blue tansy plant produces tight bundles of tiny bright yellow flowers. However, once the flowers, leaves, and stem are steam distilled, the chemical constituent, chamazulene, forms, giving Blue Tansy oil a vibrant indigo colour.

The fruity, mellow aroma of Blue Tansy oil is delightful when diffused, whether on its own or blended with other essential oils to create a calming environment. This blue-hued oil is also appreciated for its topical uses, especially for its benefits for the skin.

Why choose Blue Tansy oil?
​​​​​​​​​​​​​Blue Tansy oil is a must-have when it comes to skincare. Adding one drop of Blue Tansy essential oil to your moisturizer can provide a cooling and soothing sensation to dry skin as well as promote a glowing, youthful complexion while leaving behind a relaxing, invigorating aroma.

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Clary Sage Oil

Used for centuries in holistic practices, the biennial Clary Sage plant thrives in the northern Mediterranean sun and produces upward-spiked purple, pink, and white flowers which are steam distilled to extract the treasured Clary Sage essential oil.

Clary Sage essential oil is known for its aromatic benefits. Its floral, woody, herbaceous aroma is both soothing and relaxing. Clary Sage oil is most commonly used in aromatherapy* and can also benefit the skin. Incorporate Clary Sage oil into a skincare routine, during an aromatic massage, or apply to the bottoms of your feet to promote moments of calm.

Why choose Clary Sage oil?
When used in aromatherapy, Clary Sage essential oil acts as a nervine and calmative and as a carminative and antispasmodic for symptomatic relief of digestive discomfort. Clary Sage oil can also be used in aromatherapy to help relieve headaches, colds and coughs, minor skin irritation, cuts, bruises, and burns as well as help to relieve joint and muscle pain associated with sprain, strain, and rheumatoid arthritis.*

*NPN 80060984

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Geranium Oil

The geranium plant grows in South Africa, with green leaves and rose-coloured flowers that were used as a beautifying agent in Ancient Egyptian times. Today, the essence and aroma of geranium flowers are still adored as a steam distilled essential oil.

Enjoy the sweet, herbaceous, and floral notes of the geranium flower as a beautiful essential oil, famed for its ability to enhance your skin and beauty routines, and for producing a relaxing scent throughout your space when diffused.

Why choose Geranium Oil?
Similar to its floral family members, Geranium essential oil is renowned for its beautifying properties for your hair and skin. Combine one drop of Geranium oil with your shampoo to balance moisture in your hair or for a smoothing effect on your skin, add a few drops to your facial moisturizer and apply after showering or during a steam facial.

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Helichrysum Oil

Also known as the “everlasting” or “immortal flower,”  helichrysum is a small shrub of miniature, golden, ball-shaped blossoms that grow in clusters amongst narrow, silver leaves. These yellow flowers are steam distilled to produce Helichrysum essential oil, highly valued for its profound uses and benefits.

Aromatherapy is one of the most valuable uses of this herbaceous, honey-scented essential oil, but this sweet aroma also has great topical benefits. Simply include Helichrysum oil to your skincare routine to promote healthy-looking skin and a glowing, youthful complexion and delight in its energizing, floral aroma.

Why choose Helichrysum oil?
Used in aromatherapy, Helichrysum essential oil acts as a nervine and calmative and a carminative and antispasmodic for symptomatic relief of digestive discomfort. It can also help relieve colds and cough, minor skin irritation, cuts, bruises, and burns and joint and muscle pain associated with sprain, strain, and rheumatoid arthritis and provides symptomatic relief of acne and boils, eczema, and dermatitis.*

*NPN 80060963. These claims apply only to Helichrysum essential oil (NPN: 80060963), and not to doTERRA Touch Helichrysum.

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doterra Touch® Jasmine

Sourced in Egypt, the fragile white blossoms of the Jasmine flower are carefully harvested by hand in the early morning hours. As the flowers are too delicate to be steam distilled, doTERRA Touch® Jasmine is enjoyed as an absolute. During this extraction process, the wax and paraffin are separated out from volatile aromatic compounds, making doTERRA Touch Jasmine more potent.

Considered the “King of Flowers,” doTERRA Touch Jasmine is acclaimed for its sweet, floral, and romantic aroma and ability to reduce the appearance of skin imperfections as well as promote a healthy-looking complexion. Best of all, this fine fragrance is small and portable, making it perfect for on-the-go use.

Why choose doTERRA Touch Jasmine?
The romantic, floral aroma of doTERRA Touch Jasmine will take you to a whole new world when used topically. Since it’s in a convenient roller, simply roll on the skin for a unique personal fragrance, to moisturize skin, for a more radiant complexion, or for a soothing aroma to complement a relaxing massage. 

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Lavender Oil

Native to the Mediterranean, the lavender plant is known for its soft purple flowers that grow in long, thin clusters and produce a distinctive, fresh scent. These beauties go through a steam distillation process where heated steam and gentle pressure are used to produce doTERRA’s top-selling Lavender essential oil.

Delight in the powdery, floral aroma of Lavender essential oil as you discover its powerful benefits amongst a myriad of uses. Add a drop to your favourite herbal tea, incorporate into your beauty routine to soothe dry skin and keep your hair looking thick and healthy, or use aromatically to create a calming aroma as you wind down for the night.

​​​​​​​Why choose Lavender oil?
​​​​​​​There is so much to love about lavender, but its beautiful aroma is among reigns supreme. Indulge in this lovely scent by adding it to your linens, to a warm bath for a light, calming fragrance as you soak, or add several drops to a glass spray bottle and spritz around your home for a refreshing, soothing aroma.

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Whether you were already a floral oils expert, or you dug up some new knowledge, we hope you know these blooming essential oils are A-Bouquet and deserve a spot in your essential oil collection. We’re certain they will make your day anytime you use them.