Original information from Kobashi Official Website:
Relaxing, refreshing, excellent for skin care - especially oily or blemished. Add 1 drop to cool boiled water as a mouthwash, and breath freshener. No Bergapten: By distilling Bergamot furanocoumarins are removed.
LATIN NAME: Citrus bergamia.
SOURCE: cold expressed form fruit peel.
COLOUR: dark cloudy olive brown green.
ORIGIN: Ivory coast and Calabria Italy
AROMA: Sweet, citrus lemony mandarin like - with a fresh green note.
QUALITIES: Relaxing, refreshing, excellent for skin care - especially oily or blemished skin.
Our distilled Bergamot is bergapten free.
True Bergapten free Bergamot cost slightly more to make as it must be fractionated and tested for the bergapten content. Bergapten free Bergamot is clear in colour and lighter sweeter in Aroma than cold pressed.
The people of Calabria Italy's Bergamot workers where most of the Bergamot is produce, pick and process Bergamot in the sun and seem to be very healthy. In fact, one of Kobashi suppliers said, he does not know of any cases where the workers had any health problems.
It seems as though Nature in the whole has balancing mechanism that are not there when you isolate one chemical.
