GOOD. Oils · The herb of remembrance

Rosemary

With the ancient Greeks, in Shakespeare and in your gran's kitchen: rosemary goes with a clear head and good food. doTERRA's Rosemary is pure, herby and so strong that one drop does the work of a whole sprig.

🌿 Rosmarinus officinalis · herby, clear, powerful
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doTERRA Rosemary

What it does

Rosemary is an evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean with a herby, camphor-like scent that wakes you right up. The name comes from the Latin ros marinus, dew of the sea, because the plant loves growing along the coast. The ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Hebrews held it sacred. Its scent comes mainly from three compounds: 1,8-cineole, alpha-pinene and camphor.

Traditionally, rosemary has always been about remembering. Greek students are said to have tucked a sprig behind their ears while they studied. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia says: "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance." At European weddings and funerals, rosemary stood for faithfulness and for not forgetting for centuries. And Hungary Water, one of Europe's oldest perfumes, was built on rosemary.

Researchers wanted to know whether that old reputation holds up. In a study by Moss and colleagues (2003), people in a room scented with rosemary did better on memory tasks and felt more alert than people with no scent. Moss and Oliver (2012) found that people with more 1,8-cineole in their blood worked faster and more accurately. How scent helps your memory is all in my blog Your nose is a memory stick.

doTERRA's Rosemary comes from fields in Morocco and every batch is tested for purity. In Europe you use the oil as a food flavouring: one drop gives a stew, roasted vegetables or new potatoes the full flavour of fresh rosemary, without needles stuck in your teeth.

Why one drop

Pure essential oil is hugely concentrated: one drop of Rosemary equals a generous handful of fresh rosemary needles. So: use diluted, and at most one drop a day.

Why this one

The herb of remembrance

From Greek students to Shakespeare, rosemary has stood for a clear head and not forgetting for centuries.

Pure and powerful

So concentrated that one drop flavours a whole dish.

CPTG tested

Every batch independently tested for purity.

From Morocco

From rosemary fields in Morocco, where the plant thrives in sun and sea air.

How to use Rosemary

1.Use the toothpick method: dip the tip of a clean toothpick in the oil and stir it through your food.
2.Lovely in stews, roasted vegetables, new potatoes, focaccia or a marinade with olive oil and lemon.
3.Always diluted, and no more than one drop a day.

Where it comes from

Click a pin for the sourcing story.

Wereldkaart met de herkomst van de doTERRA-oliën
Lavender 🌍 Bulgaria doTERRA’s Lavender grows on the high plains of Bulgaria, on fields run by family farms that have passed the craft down for generations. The flowering tops are harvested in summer and distilled close to the field; through Co-Impact Sourcing the growers get guaranteed purchase and fair prices. View Lavender → Turmeric 🌍 Nepal The rhizomes are harvested by hand by farming families in the hills of Nepal and distilled locally. Co-Impact Sourcing provides steady jobs and fair prices in a region where paid work is scarce. View Turmeric → Frankincense 🌍 Somalia · Oman · Ethiopia doTERRA's frankincense is a blend of several Boswellia species from Somalia, Oman and Ethiopia. Harvesters make careful cuts in the bark; the resin crystallises over a few days into beads, the tree's 'tears'. Every supply chain is audited against the FairWild standard. View Frankincense → Wild Orange 🌍 Brazil Sourced from hundreds of small farmers in southern Brazil, where the climate is ideal for citrus. The oil is cold-pressed from the peel; it takes around 154 oranges for one 15 ml bottle. View Wild Orange → Ylang Ylang 🌍 Madagascar · Nosy Be From growers on the island of Nosy Be, off Madagascar's north-west coast. The star-shaped flowers are hand-picked and distilled within 24 hours, so the rich, sweet aroma is preserved. View Ylang Ylang → Cedarwood 🌍 United States From the south-eastern USA, from Juniperus virginiana. A lovely detail: doTERRA distils the oil from sawdust and offcuts left over from timber processing, giving waste a second life. View Cedarwood → Magnolia Touch 🌍 Southern China The magnolia oil comes from southern China, from the white champaca. The delicate blossoms are hand-picked early morning or late evening and steam-distilled. View Magnolia Touch → Shinrin-Yoku 🌍 Japan (Hinoki) A blend with no single origin: oils from around the world come together. Its heart is Japanese, with the signature note Hinoki, the cypress of Japanese temples, inspired by shinrin-yoku, forest bathing. View Shinrin-Yoku → Peppermint 🌍 USA · India Sourced in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, from a family farm spanning generations, and in northern India (Uttar Pradesh). The steady, wet climate gives a high menthol content. View Peppermint → PastTense 🌍 Nepal A blend of several oils. Its most remarkable sourcing story sits in the wintergreen: wild-harvested in the mountains of rural Nepal, naturally rich in methyl salicylate. View PastTense → Deep Blue Stick 🌍 Nepal Built on the Deep Blue blend. Its main component, wintergreen, is wild-harvested in rural Nepal, where women climb the steep mountain slopes and communities manage their forest areas together. View Deep Blue Stick → Fractionated Coconut Oil 🌍 Philippines The carrier oil comes from the Philippines, from the coconut. Fractionation leaves only the light, liquid part: colourless, odourless and miscible with any essential oil. View Fractionated Coconut Oil → Lemon 🌍 Italy (Sicily) · Brazil doTERRA's Lemon comes from two places with the same roots: the femminello lemon around Mount Etna in Sicily, and southern Brazil, where Italian emigrants brought their citrus craft with them in the seventies. The peels are cold-pressed; what's left over goes to bio-compost for electricity. Through Co-Impact Sourcing, growers and cooperatives work with guaranteed purchase and fair prices. View Lemon → Tea Tree 🌍 Kenya · Australia doTERRA's Tea Tree grows in two places: in Australia, where the Melaleuca comes from, and in Kenya, where smallholder farmers grow the shrub on land that once yielded little. The leaves are steam-distilled locally. Tea tree earns up to five times more there than maize, and for every kilo of oil a share goes into a development fund the cooperatives run themselves. View Tea Tree → Copaiba 🌍 Brazil (Amazon) Copaiba comes from the resin deep in the trunk of the copaifera tree, along the Amazon in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Harvesters drill a small hole and tap the resin like maple syrup; one tree can live up to four hundred years. doTERRA helped the harvesters with protective gear, training and a cooperative of their own, so they earn more and stay in charge. View Copaiba → Oregano 🌍 Turkey doTERRA's Oregano is wild-harvested in Turkey, where the plant blooms in summer, by a network of hundreds of small farmers. The aerial parts are steam-distilled into one of the most concentrated oils there is. View Oregano → Lemongrass 🌍 India doTERRA's Lemongrass comes from India, from smallholder farmers often with no more than half a hectare of land. The grass is steam-distilled locally, and the spent grass then fuels the boiler; nothing is wasted. By placing distillation stills in the region, doTERRA gave the farmers a valuable crop to add. View Lemongrass → Cardamom 🌍 Guatemala · Honduras doTERRA's Cardamom comes from Guatemala and Honduras, where it grows in the shade of tall trees. The seed pods are picked, dried for around thirty-six hours and steam-distilled. In Honduras the Poverty Stoplight project helps families work their own way out of poverty; one of the farmers built a house with running water from it. View Cardamom → Eucalyptus 🌍 Australia doTERRA's Eucalyptus radiata comes from Australia, where the tree grows naturally and reaches up to fifteen metres tall. The leaves are steam-distilled, giving the fresh, invigorating oil known for its high 1,8-cineole content. View Eucalyptus → Blue Lotus Touch 🌍 China · Guangzhou & Hainan The blue water lily grows in ponds near Guangzhou, built especially for this oil, and on Hainan island. Farmers stand waist-deep in the water and pick the flowers by hand, up to 100 kilos a day. Within 24 hours they travel chilled to extraction. View Blue Lotus Touch → Neroli Touch 🌍 Egypt The blossom of the bitter orange tree comes from Egypt, where the tree has been grown for centuries. One 15 ml bottle of pure neroli takes over 18 kilos of freshly picked blossom. View Neroli Touch → Jasmine Touch 🌍 Egypt The royal jasmine comes from Egypt. The blossoms are hand-picked in the middle of the night, before the sun can touch their scent. 5 ml takes around 21,000 blossoms. View Jasmine Touch → Rose Touch 🌍 Bulgaria The Damask rose comes from Bulgaria, the land of the rose valley. The roses are hand-picked before sunrise and distilled the same day; 5 ml of pure oil takes around 10,000 roses. View Rose Touch →

Fancy giving it a try?

You can order Rosemary on its own, or, and honestly I always recommend this, set up your own account and get 25% off.

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About that 25%: with your own doTERRA account (free, no compulsory orders, cancel monthly) you pay the wholesale price on everything. Order more than once and the account pays for itself right away. I'd just do it; you order the same and simply pay less.

Essential oil as a food flavouring. Use diluted, at most one drop a day. Store out of reach of children. Keep out of the eyes and mucous membranes. If you're pregnant, breastfeeding, have a medical condition or take medication, please consult your doctor first.