What is a natural perfume?
HartBlends natural perfumes are a composition of essential oils, absolutes, resins, lichens, and CO2 extracts blended into either a base of organic alcohol or beeswax and jojoba oil. A small amount of vegetable glycerin may also be used in the alcohol based perfumes as a fixative. No synthetic chemicals, such as aroma chemicals, are used. Natural perfumes are not new. They were crafted and cultivated for centuries by many cultures. The art of extracting the fragrance from plants took hundreds of years to get to where we are today. In the early 1900s, the creation of synthetic fragrances became available. Synthetic fragrances are less expensive, more linear, and more easily available than the natural elements. Because of this, synthetic creations became very popular. The down side to synthetic perfumes is that they are linear, not dynamic as naturals are, there is a much greater chance of allergy and irritation to synthetic perfumes and synthetic perfumes can be terribly strong, overbea
