Essential oils: Lemongrass essential oil

Lemongrass isn’t just for flavouring your favourite Asian noodles any more! It’s an essential oil, too! Lemongrass essential oil (Cymbogon citratus) is steam distilled from cultivated plants. (It can also be CO2 extracted.) It’s considered to be a sedative, flavouring and fragrance agent, analgesic, anti-microbial and antiseptic, fungicidal, insecticidal, and astringent. (And you know we’ll…