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It takes 10,000 roses to fill a single 5ml bottle that is equal to 833 dozen roses. It also takes 60 roses to create a single drop of Rose Otto oil. That’s just under 5 dozen roses!
Did you know that Rose Otto distilled from the Bulgarian Rosa damascena essential oil becomes solid at temperatures below 21 °C (69.8 °F)? This happens because the waxes in the oil begin to set below a certain temperature.
You might say that Rose Otto is a wax and not a liquid, but that is not entirely accurate. The parts of the rose used for distillation are the rose petals. The steam pushes its way through the petals during the steam distillation process until the wax and the oils become separated from the water during cooling and condensation. What is left is the stunning rose water in one part, and the oil and its waxes in another.
The Bulgarian climate is perfect for the rose oil production since the petals don’t over-produce the wax. In less favorable climates, the petals need to produce more wax for protection. When the climate is too harsh, or has too little sun, the rose petals will not have the optimum amount of wax as they adapt to their less than optimum climate by producing too much, or too little wax.
Knowing the difference on how your oil is extracted is very important. There are two process, Rose Otto is produced using the steam distillation method (the YL way), and Rose Absolute is produced using a solvent extraction method.
While both methods produce beautifully fragrant oils, the extraction method produces more oil and the resulting scent is stronger, which is why Rose Absolute is mostly used by the perfume industry, while Rose Otto is mostly used in Aromatherapy since the steam distillation process keeps its therapeutic grade intact.
My Rose oil is sometimes more gel and solid if it’s gotten cool. I just roll the bottle back and forth in my hands and it is soon back to its beautiful liquid state.
My favorite use of Rose is in DIY Beauty Serum. In a 2 dram dropper bottle, combine 4 drops Frankincense, 3 drops Myrrh, and 2 drops Rose. Top with Johoba oil. A drop of this Serum goes a LONG way and produces beautifully amazing results on my skin!
The farm manager, Nicholas Landel, has been working hard to find ways to ensure the fields don’t need any pesticides and that our farms maintain better than organic practices. He tried goats but they ate the lavender plants. He tried a few different breeds of sheep and they are the lavender plants too. He finally found a specific breed of sheep that eat everything EXCEPT the lavender plants! And they provide really natural organic fertilizer. 😉
NEW Ningxia Red clinical trials 
This is amazing - YL just had a clinical study completed and the results are what Ningxia Red drinkers have known for a long time! It makes you feel BETTER 
And if you haven’t been a NR drinker, now may be the time to start 
And if you haven’t been a NR drinker, now may be the time to start This study was:
Conducted by a third party (not YL)
Randomized and controlled
Authorized by the Independent Ethics Review Board
Participants consumed 2oz of Ningxia Red per day for 60 days. Results include:
clinically shown to significantly increase physical energy levels by 35%
clinically shown to improve sleep patterns and increase time asleep when used consecutively for 60 days
clinically shown to support healthy inflammation response
clinically shown to reduce daily stress by 23% and improve mental well being. (This effect was amplified in WOMEN participants)
clinically shown to promote healthy respiratory functionWhere are my Ningxia Red drinkers?? Who’s going to try it for the first time??
Here is the link to the study:
You can share this information FAR and WIDE!!
We all experienced this by using NingXia Red, but now we have the studies to back up our claims!!!
Earlier this week our family attended a two-day all day church conference, and I knew I needed to have food on hand to stick to my meaty way of eating!
We all like tips, right? Here are my tips for what I packed to be ready, as well as what I ate from the hotel lobby. For general info, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express.
What I packed:
- Leftover hamburger patties, 1/3# each
- 2 Ribeyes (12 oz each)
- microwavable bacon 🥓
- Frigo brand beef and cheese sticks
- Epic brand beef, venison, chicken, and salmon jerky
- 8 pats of butter
What I got from the breakfast buffet:
- butter (pats and pats!)
- pork sausage patties and links
- hard boiled eggs
I can't forget Redmond's Real Salt!
I ended up the two days with a Ribeye and a lot of the jerky, as well as most of the butter.
In another post, I'll tell you where and what I ate so you can see how this all shook out over the two days.
