Cinnamon Essential Oil
One of the world’s oldest spices, cinnamon has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic practices, and is a remedy for a plethora of ailments. It boosts immunity, alleviates pain or stiffness in muscles and joints, nourishes the skin to calm dryness and reduces acne and rashes. Known to diminish depression and exhaustion, uplift the mood, and improve cognitive function.
Lavender Essential Oil
The most popular essential oil throughout the world, lavender has been used since ancient times for the relief of a wide range of ailments, including depression, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, nausea, skin irritations and hair loss.
Frankincense Essential Oil
Once as precious as gold and known as the ‘King of Essential Oils’, its use in skin care goes back to Ancient times. Frankincense oil rejuvinates the skin, reducing the appearance of ageing and imperfections, and promoting wound healing, in addition to calming respiratory infections and arthritis. This soothing oil restores emotional balance, relaxes the mind, and relieves tension and stress, and is a popular choice for meditation and yoga.
Tea Tree Essential Oil
Also known as melaleuca oil, it is nicknamed “medicine cupboard in a bottle”, and is truly indispensable around the home. Tea tree oil is a natural remedy for many skin ailments, as well as relieving cold and flu symptoms, deterring insects, and being an ideal cleaner and laundry freshener. Alleviates stress and anxiety, and stimulates the immune system.
Orange Essential Oil
Orange oil has a long history in Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as in folk remedies throughout the Mediterranean, Middle East and India, being used to enhance immunity, and relieve colds, flu and coughs, indigestion, chronic fatigue, spasms, depression, poor circulation and skin infections.
Lotus Essential Oil
Lotus Essential Oil represents purity, self-regeneration and rebirth, and this is reflected in its benefits to mind, body and soul. It evokes calmness and peace of mind, and rids the body and mind of anger and negative energy. Meanwhile it improves the skin’s texture and condition and smooths frizzy, dry hair.
Gardenia Essential Oil
Sweet, warm and intoxicating, this oil will reduce stress and induce relaxation, whilst also helping to increase cognitive function and enhance memory. Beneficial for respiratory and digestive systems, to relieve inflammatory conditions, and to repair the skin.
Violet Essential Oil
Used in food recipes, wine, love potions and medicine since ancient times, violet essential oil is mild and gentle on the skin, and its soothing, cooling and anti-inflammatory properties are helpful in the treatment of a variety of skin conditions. It alleviates respiratory problems, and due to its calming benefits can relieve stress, nerves, mental fatigue, and insomnia.
Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Well used by the Aborigines in its native Australia and known as a ‘cure for all’, it was traditionally used to remedy a fever and a cold, as well as for wounds and infections. It is now a key ingredient in many commercial treatments to relieve respiratory ailments, as well as muscle and joint relief balms, and is fast becoming a staple ingredient in dental products. Eucalyptus supports the healing of cuts, bites, sores and abrasions, and is also an ideal cleaner and laundry freshener. It has a soothing effect on body and mind.
Amber Essential Oil
Amber essential oil is not extracted from a living plant but from fossilised tree resin, which still retains all of the important therapeutic properties. It calms the mind, promotes harmony, and improves cognition. Amber oil rejuvenates the skin, relieves respiratory ailments, and soothes muscle and joint pain.
Ylang Ylang Essential Oil
Boasts powerful healing properties for the mind and body. Relieves anxiety, tension and stress and induces both mental and emotional balance. This essential oil, in addition to being a popular aphrodisiac, has a myriad of therapeutic uses including easing headaches, migraines, symptoms of PMS and the menopause, relieving aching muscles, rejuvenating the skin and repelling insects.
Grapefruit Essential Oil
This stress relieving oil boosts mental focus, improves the mood and lowers blood pressure. Known to aid weight loss by increasing metabolism, it also helps to remove toxins and excess fluid. It is a saviour for oily or acne prone skin, and eliminates greasy hair. This refreshing oil is well known for its use in anti-cellulite massage.