Ylang-ylang essential oil is extracted from ylang-ylang. This essential oil is colorless or yellow, in fluid liquid state, has exotic heavy aroma.
Cananga odorata tree belongs to small arbor, its leafs are oval, petals are narrow, and the color of the flowers are yellow, pink, blue-violate. Ylang-ylang essential oil is extracted from the flowers. The best essential oil is extracted from the light yellow flowers. It is mainly cultivated in southeast, like Malaysia, Philippine, Burma, and Australia.
Appearance of Cananga odorata tree
Due to different cultivated varieties of the tropic canaanga odorata tree, the flower of ylang-ylang are in pink, blue-violate, and bright yellow, among them, we extract best essential oil from yellow flower. The essential oil firstly extracted from these flowers is the best, the next batch essential oil we extracted though has similar curative effect, its aroma is inferior than the first extraction, we also cal this inferior essential oil as cananga. This semi-natural arbor with features of hard and crisp wood, commonly found in island like Seychelles, Mauritius, Tahiti, and Philippine. Ylang-ylang essential oil produced in Madagascar is the best. Ylang-ylang essential oil is a very clear liquid with light yellow colour.
Ylang-ylang essential oil, due to different stage in the process of distillation, sold in market is classified in 5 grades. Only superfine, top grade and first grade essential oil are suitable for aromatherapy. Superfine ylang-ylang essential oil is the first extracted oil, with best quality, and strongest aroma, most of the esters are in it. The last extracted oil is called CANANGA. Whatever the ylang-ylang essential oil or CANANGA, all have the same therapy effect. It’s just that CANANGA smells rough.
Ylang-ylang essential oil medical attribute
Balancing hormones, lowering blood pressure, antispasms, breast augmentation, hair care, chronic pain, anorexia
Ylang-ylang essential oil medical application
Shortness of breath, palpitations, frigidity, insomnia, skin care, nervousness, antidepressant
Tips for ylang-ylang essential oil application
- Do not usually use it in large doze. To get good therapy effect, usually use it in small doze, and last for a period, than it will help to conditioning your body is the best. Ordinarily, the concentration in 35% is the best. For the more dangerous essential oils, no more than 3% shall be prevail.
- Don’t paste Photosensitive essential oil on the skin which will be exposed under sun. Due to some essential oil contains photosensitive elements, use it on the skin under sun, you skin will become dark, it even leads to skin cancer. Photo sensitivity is also divided into light and heavy, light photo sensitivity, such as grapefruit, use it in small doze at light, the next day, even under sun, it has no influence for your skin. But photo sensitive citrus essential oil like lemon, bergamot, orange, sweet orange, lemb, angelica root, lemon vervain, coriander, and etc, due to its high density, avoid to close them to eyes.
- Oral administration must be explained by experts or manufacturers. Good quality essential oil can be taken orally, but not all the essential oil can be taken orally. When good and bad essential oil are mixed in the market, it is hard to judge essential oil quality, thus, we’d better not take essential oil orally. If there is injury in skin, avoid paste essential oil on it. If small wounds like small knife wound, small wounds, use essential oil on it, will increase skin recovery.
- Before use essential oil, we can test by adjust it into 3% density, paste it under the armpit or chest, at least after 24 hours, there is no allergy, we can begin to use it. Apart from lavender, tea tree pure essential oil can be paste on skin, other essential oil should be deliquated, and then use it on skin.
- Single oil is not sustainable for too long. Do not use a same essential oil for more than 3 weeks, and avoid use a single oil everyday. By comparison, compound essential oil has better effect than single essential oil. If it is for conditioning, the usage can last for 3 months, but the longest time is no more than half a year.
- Lactating woman and girl under the age of 18 should not use essential oil, because it will change the endocrine system and cause adverse consequences.
Not suitable person
- Pregnant woman
- People with hypertension
- epileptic
- sensitive people
- children under 2 years
- Children under two years treated with care