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Carrot seed on a label can mean two different oils. Karen hosts this week and puts them side by side: the garden carrot, Daucus carota subspecies sativus, whose seed is harvested in the plant's second year, and the wild carrot, Queen Anne's lace, subspecies carota. It is one Latin name with two very different reports: carotol leads the garden carrot at 71%, while geranyl acetate, an ester, leads the wild carrot at 33%. Karen smells the two side by side, sorts carrot seed oil from carrot seed carrier oil and macerated carrot root oil, and makes a Roadside Calm diffuser blend, a one-drop Carrot Face Moisturizer and an Ember Glow Grounding Balm. She closes with a tour of Thymely Lite and Thymely Premium.
In this episode:
- Carrot seed on the bottle is only the beginning of the story. The garden carrot is Daucus carota subspecies sativus; the wild carrot, Queen Anne's lace, is Daucus carota subspecies carota. Many sellers print only Daucus carota, so read the GC/MS report, or smell them.
- The garden carrot smells strongly of carrot: warm, earthy, softly sweet and lingering, and carotol is over 70% of it. The wild carrot is lighter, fruitier, gently floral and green, and geranyl acetate, an ester, leads it at 33%.
- Three different things come from the carrot: the steam-distilled essential oil from the seed, pale yellow and very aromatic; a cold-pressed carrier oil from the seed; and a macerated oil from the root, which is the orange one. For the root oil at home, dry shredded carrots, grind them to a powder and let them infuse in olive oil for a couple of days.
- Carrot seed is not a sunscreen: the 38 SPF you may read online has not been proven. It is usually avoided during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and when in doubt, choose an alternative.
- Carrot Face Moisturizer: fill a 1 fluid ounce bottle with argan and rosehip seed oil, about half and half, then add 1 drop of the garden carrot seed. Jojoba works in place of either carrier. Label it with what is in it and when you made it.
- Ember Glow Grounding Balm, 1 ounce: melt 3 grams of beeswax, add apricot kernel oil, then 5 drops each of Wild Carrot, Cedarwood Atlas and Red Mandarin. Cedarwood Deodar can stand in for Atlas, and a vanilla jojoba changes the aroma of the whole balm.
- Both oils are strong, so 1 drop goes a long way (maybe 2 of the wild carrot). The chemistry sets the shelf life too: about 8 years for the garden carrot, about 4 for the wild carrot.
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Tea Time: Karen hosts while Jenny travels
0:33 What everyone is sipping
2:15 Inside the Club classroom: the Carrot Seed page, the recipes and Jenny's workbook
3:21 Roadside Calm diffuser blend: 3 drops Wild Carrot, 2 Xanthoxylum, 1 Vetiver Green
8:47 The plan: two carrot seeds, two GC/MS reports, two makes
9:52 The garden carrot and Queen Anne's lace: one Latin name, two subspecies
11:34 From seed to oil: two years in the ground, and the flower head that curls into a nest
12:38 Carrot seed oil, carrot seed carrier oil and macerated carrot root oil
13:47 Make your own macerated carrot oil at home
18:08 Smelling them side by side: warm and earthy, or light, fruity and green
19:12 The garden carrot's GC/MS report: carotol at over 70%
21:31 The wild carrot's report: geranyl acetate at 33%, an ester
22:32 Side by side: grounding and lingering, or lifting and bright
25:16 One drop is enough, and a shelf life of about 8 years or about 4
26:32 Is carrot seed a sunscreen? And pregnancy and breastfeeding
28:05 Carrot Face Moisturizer: argan, rosehip seed and 1 drop of Carrot Seed
30:45 Ember Glow Grounding Balm: 3 grams of beeswax on the tea warmer
33:01 Apricot kernel oil, Wild Carrot, Cedarwood Atlas and Red Mandarin, and the swaps
36:46 From the chat: Carrot Seed hydrosol, and where the recipes live in the Club
38:24 Spritz a hydrosol first, and carrier oil, essential oil and hydrosol explained
38:56 The drops go in: 5 Wild Carrot, 5 Cedarwood Atlas, 5 Red Mandarin
40:45 What to take home: two very different oils, so read the whole Latin name
42:21 Karen's deep dive, and a Thrive Live that goes further with Carrot Seed
43:24 Meet Thymely, the aromatherapy research assistant: Thymely Lite and Thymely Premium
46:17 This week's gift with a $40 order, and the gift for watching live
50:14 The Skool leaderboard and its $25 gift cards
51:19 Xanthoxylum homework winners, and a diffuser blend with a hint of warm peach
55:17 Inside Thymely Premium: the pantry, and asking about the Roadside Calm blend
59:42 askthymely.com, the two plans, and the tool Jaren built
1:01:34 From the chat: what Thymely Lite can answer
1:02:04 Signing off, and the finished Ember Glow balm
Links:
Recipes from this episode + 2,000 more in the Aromatherapy Recipes app: https://www.aromatherapy-recipes.com
Join the Natural Living Club — members get our Aromatherapy 101 course free: https://www.skool.com/natural-living
Watch the class replay: https://youtu.be/f0w2XOwUyFU
Shop Carrot Seed (garden carrot): https://www.aromatics.com/products/carrot-seed-essential-oil
Shop Wild Carrot Seed (Queen Anne's lace): https://www.aromatics.com/products/wild-carrot-oil
Meet Thymely, our aromatherapy research assistant: https://askthymely.com
