ESSENTIAL FACTS
Plant Parts: Twigs & Bark
Botanical Family: Hamamelidaceae
Country of Origin: USA
Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled
Cultivation Method: Certified Organic
Aroma: Herbaceous & slightly woody
Note Classification: Middle base
Witch Hazel Hydrosol
Hamamelis virginiana L.
Baby your skin with Inshanti’s witch hazel hydrosol. Government studies have shown that witch hazel relieves minor skin irritations from insect bites and minor cuts and scrapes. Allow its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties to reduce redness, swelling, and pain and promote healing for cracked skin, burns, and sunburns.
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You may already have witch hazel in your medicine cabinet. Unfortunately that bottle is up to 30 percent alcohol and preservatives. If you’re using it as a sports rub, that alcohol may not matter, but it will counteract the skin-healing benefits of witch hazel. Inshanti’s pure non-alcoholic witch hazel, is nothing like the witch hazel commonly sold in stores that contains preservatives and alcohol.
HOW TO USE
Aging and wrinkles: Add to your skin care product or spritz it on your face or chest evening and morning, after cleaning your skin but before moisturizing.
Bags under eyes: Add to a cotton ball and apply.
Burns and sunburn: Add to a cotton ball and apply to effected area, or spritz it on.
Cradle cap, eczema, diaper rash: Add to a cotton ball/pad and compress 30 seconds; repeat using a fresh pad each time.
Cuts and wounds: Put hydrosol on a cotton pad and place on cut/wound for 10–15 minutes, refresh with new pad 1–2 times.
Edema, rheumatoid and arthritis pain: Use in compress.
Insect bites, stings: Add to a cotton ball/pad and compress 30 seconds; repeat using a fresh pad each time.
Jock itch: Spritz over area and allow to air dry; repeat 2–3 times a day as needed.
Rosacea, spider veins, redness: Soak a cotton pad and compress it on veins for 10–15 minutes, 3–4 times daily.
Sore throat or hoarseness: Gargle with the hydrosol; can be combined with cypress oil.
Varicose veins and hemorrhoids: Use in compress or sitz bath 2–3 times daily (safe in pregnancy).
PROPERTIES
Therapeutic Properties:
- Analgesic – An agent that relieves or diminishes pain.
- Antibacterial – An agent that is capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of bacteria.
- Antifungal — An agent capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of fungi.
- Anti-inflammatory – Alleviates inflammation.
- Anti-oxidant– An agent that inhibits oxidation.
- Antiseptic – Assists in fighting germs/infections.
- Astringent — Firms tissue and organs; reduces discharges and secretions.
- Cicatrisant – Cell-regenerative for skin, healing for scars.
- Haemostatic – Stops the flow of blood. An astringent that stops internal bleeding or hemorrhaging.
- Sedative – Calms and tranquilizes by lowering the functional activity of the organ or body part.
- Styptic – An agent that is astringent especially preventing external bleeding.
SAFETY
No known safety concerns.
MORE INFO
This hydrosol gives you all the power of this antioxidant-rich plant to calm and soothe and even heal your skin. Studies have shown witch hazel’s effectiveness as part of at treatment plan for rosacea and spider veins.* Witch hazel has also been recommended for further testing as part of an antiaging and antiwrinkle regimen**—add it to your favorite cream or spritz it on your face and chest. Witch hazel is a soothing choice to bring relief, calming those awful itches or rashes—for your baby, the men in your life, or you.
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