Bergamot scientific name is Citrus bergamia. Bergamot essential oil is light yellow-green in color. It’s the most delicate of the citrus plants, requiring special climate and soil in order to thrive. The bergamot tree can grow up to four meters high, with star-shaped flowers, and smooth leaves, bearing citrus fruit resembling but in a pear-shaped. The fruit ripens from green to yellow. The name bergamot is derived from the city Bergamo in Lombardy in Lombardy where the oil was first sold. Citrus bergamot is commercially grown in southern Calabria, southern Italy. It is also grown in southern France and in cote d’lviro for the essential oil and in Antalya in southern Turkey for its marmalade. The fruit is not generally grown for juice consumption. However, in Mauritius where it is grown on small-scale basis, it is largely used for juice consumption by the locals.

Bergamot is used in many skin care creams and lotions because of its refreshing nature. It is ideally suited to help calm inflamed skin, and is an ingredient in some creams for eczema and psoriasis. Its chemical makeup has antiseptic properties which help ward off infection and aid recovery. It is also a favourite oil of aromatherapists in treating depression.Bergamot is derived from the city Bergamo in Lombardy, where the oil was first sold. The hybrid is native to Calabria, in southern Italy, where 80% is grown and where it was an indigenous treatment for malaria, but it is now cultivated in the South of France, Algeria, and the Ivory Coast for its essential oil, and in Turkey for the production of marmalade