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Picking Immortelle at Dawn Posted on 8 July 2012 and filed under Miscellaneous. This post is also available in: Croatian Immortelle, Helichrysum italicum, is one of Mediterranean medicinal herbs with the longest history of use. Immortelle essential oil is beneficial in many ways, from having calming effect on the mind to healing effect on the skin. It takes several tons (yes, tons) of immortelle flowers to produce 10 ml of immortelle essential oil. Apart from using the essential oil, you can enjoy immortelle effects by using macerated oil. For macerated oil, flowers are soaked in base oil, i.e. olive oil, and then left soaking for a month during which flowers transfer their magic to the oil. A friend of mine makes natural cosmetics, and immortelle macerated oil is one of the things he is going to make these days. Immortelle is blossoming, so we picked some. Aromatic herbs should be picked at dawn, as that is the time when concentration of essential oils is the highest. During the day, under the sun, some of the oil content evaporates. The other reason for doing this at dawn? It would be really hard to pick herbs under blazing summer sun… This is how our immortelle picking campaign looked like, yesterday morning at southern part of Rab island. Immortelle has immediately after the campaign been soaked in olive oil, now we are going to wait for a month for our immortelle oil. Patiently. Love, Mare And then sun started to rise and gently touch everything, waking up intensity in all the colours around us.
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Branje smilja u zoru Posted on 8 srpnja 2012 and filed under Razno. This post is also available in: English Smilje, Helichrysum italicum, jedna je od najranije korištenih mediteranskih ljekovitih biljaka. Eterično ulje smilja pruža niz dobrobiti, od smirujućeg djelovanja do blagotvornog i ljekovitog učinka na kožu. Da bi se dobilo 10 ml eteričnog ulja smilja potrebno je nekoliko tona (da, tona) cvjetova smilja. Osim upotrebom eteričnog ulja, dobrobiti smilja mogu se koristiti i tako da se napravi macerat. Za macerat, cvjetovi smilja se potope u bazno ulje, npr. maslinovo, i ostave stajati i predavati svoju čaroliju ulju jedno mjesec dana. Prijatelj radi prirodnu kozmetiku i macerat smilja jedna je od stvari koje radi ove dane. Smilje je u cvatu, pa smo ubrali nešto. Aromatične biljke beru se zorom da bi imale čim veću koncentraciju eteričnog ulja, ono naime tijekom dana pod jakim suncem nešto ishlapi. Drugi razlog je da bi branje pod jakim suncem bilo zaista naporno… Ovako je jučer u zoru izgledala naša berba smilja na južnom dijelu otoka Raba. Smilje je smjesta stavljeno u maslinovo ulje i sad mjesec dana strpljivo čekamo macerat. S ljubavlju, Mare I onda je sunce izašlo i kako je nježno počelo sve dodirivati, sve boje oko nas dobile su snagu.