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Introduction
The Distillery
Awaiting Update For 2010 Season
The herbal garden and the folklore museum
BioAroma is a newly-founded production unit of essential oils from wild and organic Cretan herbs, which is situated in Aghios Nikolaos Crete. In our place there is also a unique park and a museum of Cretan herbs and essential oils that you can visit.
The responsibility for the unit, Pediaditis Manousos, graduated as a chemist from the University of Crete and occupied himself with herbs and essential oils since he was a student. Through BioAroma he targets the advantages of the uses of the essential oils, always based on their long-term tradition and their useful characteristics for the consumers.
The raw materials, which BioAroma use, are either wild herbs, which are collected from the Cretan mountains, or herbs, which are cultivated organically.
The essential oils are extracted with the method of the stem distillation, in stainless steel distillers in the lowest pressure and temperature.
The final procedure is the chemical analysis of the products in a gas chromatographer, resulting in the production of the essential oils with highly therapeutic value and pharmaceutical characteristics.
Apart from the distillery there is also a unique park with various Cretan herbs, a museum and an exhibition of our products.
Enjoy a delightful walk through the unique herbs of Crete and learn their therapeutic characteristics.
Watch the steam distillation of their essential oils and learn their use in the perfumes, in the cosmetics and also the various treatments with them (aroma therapy).
Learn about the special plants of Crete that can be used for colouring and the way that older people used to dye the threads with them,
As well as being guided in our folklore museum and see agricultural tools and objects of ages past.