Hydrosols

Franchomme and Penoel 

From Grosjean I went to Piere Franchomme and Daniel Penoel or, rather, to their book L'aromatherapie exactemente. I had attended a workshop with Franchomme in 1996 and being overwhelmed by the intensely medical nature of the presentation. If this is what the French called aromatherapy , what an earth was I doing. Undaunted,  I plowed through  the heavily scientific tome, devouring every shred of information on hydrosol and pH readings, the significance of which I came to appreciate only much later . But at this time my brother gave me a pH meter, and Franchomme and Penoel listed some data. So I started taking readings too. It just seemed like the thing to do.

Now years later I know that even those two academic gentlemen recognize the vibrational aspects of aromatherapy and the link with the plant and human worlds. Dr. Phenol, in particular, has pursued this area of study, as evidenced in his later work. 

After L'aromatherapie exactemente I had no choice but to pursue my own experiments . My faily, my friends, my dogs, and virtually every single client began  to recieve hydrosols as part of their aromatherapy treatmenst. My fridge was filled with bottles from top to bottom.

Hydrosols went into every glass of water, on every pore of the skin,in most body orifices and in all my recipes, and they were combined and blended in the same way that I worked with oils. By early 1997 I had fairly a clear understanding of the properties of my original twenty, plus another handful, and was beginning to feel that I needed a new approach and some additional science to back up my experiments.

Reference: Hydrosols The Next Aromatherapy: Suzanne Catty