Rosalina Essential Oil (Lavender Tea Tree Essential Oil)

Description

Rosalina Essential Oil (Lavender Tea Tree Essential Oil)

A beautiful and relatively new Australian essential oil. Rosalina essential oil is similar to Lavender but strikingly fresher, wonderfully calming and pleasantly scented. Renown international aromatherapist, Dr Daniel Peneol rates this essential oil as one of Australia’s finest gifts to the aromatic world.

Botanical name:  Melaleuca ericifolia

Ingredients: 100% v/v pure Rosalina essential oil.

Rosalina Essential Oil (Lavender Tea Tree) Aroma

A fresh, earthy, gentle lavender aroma and a mild Eucalyptus and Tea Tree aroma.

Rosalina Essential Oil (Lavender Tea Tree) Benefits

Rosalina essential oil is relaxing, refreshing and calming. The oil s good for cleaning surfaces, keeping rooms hygienic, and can be use as an alternative to Eucalyptus or Tea Tree. For those who dislike true Lavender, this essential oil has a less dominant Lavender aroma.

Rosalina Essential Oil (Lavender Tea Tree) Uses

Use Rosalina essential oil in an oil burner, air purifier, air freshener, potpourri, massage oil, in a bath or on your cloth vacuum bag. It helps remove bad odours from rooms, clean bathrooms and kitchens, as well as washing floors.

MORE INFO 

Directions and More Uses

Rosalina Aromatherapy

2 to 4 drops in an oil burner or vaporiser, 1-5 drops into a bath.

Blend Rosalina essential oil with

Eucalyptus and Tea Tree oil varieties like our:
Lemon Tea Tree Essential Oil
Tea Tree Essential Oil
Eucalyptus WA Mallee Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Kangaroo Island Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Blue Gum Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Australiana Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Peppermint Gum Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Lemon Scented Gum Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Lemon Ironbark Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Blue Mallee Essential Oil

Massage with Rosalina essential oil

10 to 25 drops per 100ml of carrier oil.

Main Actives of Rosalina essential oil

linalool, 1,8 cineole, alpha-pinene, aromadendrene, alpha-terpineol and terpinene-4-ol.

Precautions

Do not ingest.
Store away from direct sunlight.
Store below 30 degrees.
Keep out of reach of children.

Other Common Names

Swamp Paperbark, Lavender Tea Tree.

Natural Occurrence in Australia of Rosalina (Lavender Tea Tree)

Rosalina trees naturally occur in the swampy lowlands of Tasmania, Bass Strait Islands, Victoria and New South Wales. The tree is quite common in its natural range and grows to a maximum height of 8 metres in the wild. It grows naturally in and around swamps.

Characteristics 

Clear to amber yellow colour with a watery consistency.  A fresh scent with a lovely lavender note.

Extraction and Farming Method

The essential oil is extracted via steam distillation of the leaves and green branchlets. While Rosalina is grown in plantations, some wild harvesting of the plant still occurs.

History

Traditional Usage

At present we don’t have any records of traditional use.  However it is quite reasonable to expect Rosalina was used by our First peoples, they would have rubbed the leaves on their skin and also inhaled the leaves of this plant.

Early European Usage

There tree was occasionally wild harvested for its medicinal essential oil. It was identified and reported by renown Australian chemist and Australian essential oil pioneer Baker and Smith in 1922. The trees also flower prolifically and so bee hives are located near the trees for honey production.

Present Day Usage

Rosalina essential oil (Lavender Tea Tree) is used by aroma therapists as an alternative for those who don’t like Lavender.

Typical Chemical Profile of Rosalina Essential oil (Lavender Tea Tree)
alpha-pinene                                     5-10%
cineole 1,8                                       15-25%
para-cymene                                       1-4%
limonene                                              1-5%
linalool                                              35-55%
terpen-4-ol                                        0.5-4%
alpha-terpinene                                    1-4%
aromadendrene                                   2-4%
viridiflorol                                            0.2-3%

Relative Density @20 C: 0.880-0.910
Refractive Index @ 20 C: 1.4880-1.4900
Optical Rotation @ 20 C: +3.5-+12.0