Why is rose oil better than Huang Jingui?

A friend recently had a fever and started with rose essential oil, but immediately encountered a major event, that is, the price difference of rose essential oil was huge. Cheap 2 ml costs 500 yuan to 600 yuan, and expensive 1000 to several thousand yuan. All the essential oil shops said it was the best (Pharaoh sells melons, which is understandable), so he called me and asked me why. What is the difference? Therefore, I spent at least an hour teaching her.

In fact, her question represents the vast majority of MM who just started to use essential oil. It is said that MM is because there are too few men who use essential oil in China, so essential oil has become a patent for women. In China, essential oil is simply regarded as a beauty product. In fact, the use of essential oils is gender-neutral. As a male, Benbo began to learn (talk a little big, hehe, thick-skinned) and use essential oils when he traveled to Indonesia six years ago, during which he benefited from another text introduction.

This MM question is not difficult to answer, that is, you get what you pay for. Moreover, different raw materials and different production processes will naturally lead to different prices. But to explain in detail, we should start with roses.

Roses are produced in countless places on the earth. Although roses originated in China, there are no high-quality roses that can be used as essential oils in China. There are more than 200 original varieties of roses in the world, thousands of which have been mixed and mutated. Today, there are only more than 30 kinds of fragrant roses, of which only 3 are the "parents" of other roses. One is a red rose from the Caucasus, also known as French rose and Ploin rose, and the other is a Chiba rose from Persia, usually called Provence rose or Isfahan rose, which is the son of red rose. Although Damascus rose originated in Syria, today Damascus rose is planted in Bulgaria.

This is the famous Damascus rose, which was photographed in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria in June this year.

Bulgaria can grow the best Damascus roses because of its unique geographical and climatic environment. Near Kazanlak, Bulgaria: a valley about 100- 130 km long from east to west and about 10- 15 km wide from north to south, with an altitude of 300-7 10 m, and its northern part is higher than the valley160. In addition, the sand here is fertile and loose, and it is not easy to accumulate water after rain; Every February, when the roses germinate, the temperature in the Rose Valley is mild. May-June is the season when roses are in full bloom, with abundant rain, cloudy weather, no scorching sun, high air humidity and dew. This weather not only prolongs the flowering period, but also inhibits the evaporation of oily and volatile components in flowers, which is the key factor to improve the yield and quality of rose oil. Such geographical environment and climatic conditions make the wax film on the surface of rose petals thinner, unlike roses in other places, which form a thick wax film on the surface of rose petals in order to protect themselves from strong sunlight. This is the reason why Bulgarian rose oil wax is less. The above unique geographical and climatic conditions are very suitable for the growth of roses, and the exquisite skills of local Bulgarians in processing rose oil for a long time make the quality of Bulgarian rose oil incomparable to the outside world.

According to experts' evaluation of roses, Russian roses are softer, Indian roses are thinner, Egyptian roses are richer, Turkish roses are sweeter, Moroccan roses are brighter, Bulgarian roses have round petals, good quality and high oil yield.

Speaking of roses (raw materials), let's talk about the manufacturing process.

There are two main methods to extract rose oil from rose petals: distillation extraction and solvent extraction. The products extracted by distillation are: rose oil (colorless or yellow liquid) and by-product rose water (a small amount of rose oil can not be completely extracted when dissolved in water); Solvent extraction method, the products are: extract (waxy, light brown, semi-solid) and rose essence (rose oil, light red liquid extracted from rose sauce with alcohol as solvent). The yield of rose essential oil extracted by solvent extraction method is 10 times that by distillation extraction method, and the rose essential oil obtained by distillation method has the best fragrance and the most detailed fragrance, which is the top grade.

After reading the above, it should be clear that a layman can't tell the difference between solvent extraction and distillation extraction, but the difference of 10 times output, coupled with the quality of different rose varieties, naturally makes the price and efficacy very different. If you have to say that they are all roses anyway, then buy cheap ones. Hehe, well, next time I treat you to seafood, I'll treat you to fried shrimp and rice skin. Shrimp skin is seafood anyway.

Bulgaria Rose Valley is a good season for picking in June every year.

The best rose essential oil needs 3000-5000 kg petals to extract 1 kg rose oil, so it is more expensive than gold. The current market price of 1 kg rose oil is basically 1 kg half gold and it is still rising to a higher price.