Tangerine Hydrosol

Instructions

Tangerine Hydrosol Citrus reticulata var. tangerina

Tangerines locally sourced from a friend in Haiku, Maui who does not spray! They are organic local to Maui tangerines. I made 3 distillations from the tangerines;

1. From the peels, which I soaked overnight and then blended with a hand blender to optimize polyphenol and essential oil extractions. I did get a little oil which I dispersed throughout the hydrosol. The tangerine peel hydrosol will have some essential oil in it. It has an energizing, uplifting tangerine scent.
2. From the leaves to make a Tangerine petitgrain. I only did a small distillation of this so it won’t be for sale –yet. Next time I will distill more leaves to make some available for sale. The leaves add a bit of a floral fragrance to the tangerine scent.
3. From the fruits, which is nice for internal usage. It’s a mild scent and with a light flavor. Delicious in water.

To purchase please specify if you want the tangerine peel hydrosol or tangerine fruit hydrosol:

2 oz cobalt blue bottle with a sprayer cap $15.00
4 oz bottle with cap $25.00
Contact Bobbi to order.

Tangerines vs. Mandarins

Tangerine and mandarin trees are both botanically Citrus reticulata, yet they are two different varieties of this species. The mandarin originated in China and is cultivated in Europe. The tangerine is grown in the U.S. The tangerine is larger than the mandarin and has a slightly different aroma. All Tangerines are Mandarins, but not all Mandarins are Tangerines generally, this is a difference of terroir. A Tangerine is a cultivar of the Mandarin Citrus reticulata. Despite the common name, it is just a different variety of Mandarin, Mandarin from China, and Tangerine from the Americas.

Tangerine hydrosol Uses:

• Mood enhancer — lifts mood and helps to ease depression and anxiety. Helpful to relieve nervous tension, insomnia, and eases headaches.
• Uplifting yet calming
• Calms the nervous system
• Helpful to the skin in reducing acne, oily skin, edema, and cellulite.
• Relieves PMS emotions and stress, can help to ease birth and labor stress.
• Eases stress related digestion.
• It is effective in relieving digestive disorders including stomach ache, diarrhea, indigestion, and vomiting
• Eases stress related muscular tension
• Best suited to stabilize energy flow.

THERAPEUTIC ACTIONS

Antidepressant, anxiolytic, nervine, soothes the sympathetic nervous system, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, digestive tonic, modulates the central nervous system, sedative, 

SYSTEM AFFINITIES : Nervous, Psyche/emotion, Digestive

How to use hydrosols? 

Most common:

#1 mist face and body prior to oil or moisturizer. This helps your oil to seal the moisture into your skin.

• Need to uplift your mood? Use grapefruit or tangerine hydrosol.
• Want to brighten your skin or balance your hormones? Use rose geranium hydrosol.
• Working on a big project, school, or learning and remembering something? use rosemary hydrosol.
• Feeling a little congested? Try the red bottlebrush (eucalyptus) hydrosol.
• Have a little cut or scrape? Use niaouli hydrosol.

Use as a toner, pour a little on an organic cotton pad or ball. Or blend 2 different hydrosols and add a little aloe vera or witch hazel hydrosol and make a toner. I offer these here.

Add 1 tsp to a litre of water and enjoy.

Air spritzer – works great in the bathroom

I gargle with hydrosols! My favorite to gargle with is rose geranium or tangerine.

Eye Pads – soak a cotton pad in hydrosol and lay one on each eye — this is nice when the hydrosol is chilled.

Medicinal:

Eye infections, of any type that I’ve experienced have been nipped in the bud many times by me spraying one of my hydrosols on at the first sign of any symptoms.

Poison Ivy – I have found hydrosol helpful at receiving itch from poison ivy — specifically rose, chamomile, and peppermint, used singly.

Spray on a cut or wound to aid in healing and cleaning.

Compresses – after you heat the water and wet your cloth, wring it out, then add a few spritzes of hydrosol.

Other:

Use in your clay mask recipe – after applying mask spritz your face with a hydrosol to keep your mask from drying out too quickly.

Add up to 1 tsp to your neti pot water

Use 1 cup in a foot bath or hand bath

Add 1-2 cups to your bath (not very practical for most, but if you happen to have an abundance of a certain hydrosol).

In the laundry you can dampen a washcloth with hydrosol and put in dryer to help freshen stale or stinky clothing.

Internal 

Freeze it in ice cube trays and use in iced tea.

You can even cook with them, they can add nice flavor when some of the water for rice is substituted with hydrosol.

Try soaking nuts in a tasty citrus hydrosol