Allspice Berry Essential Oil

Use for flatulent indigestion and externally for neuralgic or rheumatic pain. Great as a holiday scent: it smells like a combination of cloves, juniper berries, and cinnamon.

Angelica Essential Oil

Use to stimulate the circulatory system to remove toxins. Angelica oil is known to cause a distaste for excessive alcohol consumption (a toxin to the body), so it is considered a valuable aid for alcoholism.

Anise Seed Essential Oil

Anise seed oil has a licorice-like aroma and is used mainly for flatulence and indigestion in aromatherapy. It can also be effective when taken internally in small amounts for dry irritable coughs, bronchitis, and whooping cough. Because anise is a spice, a drop can be taken in water to help with digestion or the oil can be added to honey when taken for coughs and other ailments.

Balsam Peru Essential Oil

Balsam Peru oil is known for its vanilla-like notes and offers a completely unique aroma. It is only used externally in aromatherapy, either through diffusion for respiratory disorders such as asthma, chronic coughs and bronchitis... or it can also be used topically in dilution for rheumatic pain and skin problems including rashes and eczema. It is used heavily in the perfume industry because of its unique aroma.

Basil Essential Oil

Basil essential oil smells just like the fresh-cut basil and instantly brings clarity to the mind and activates the senses. In aromatherapy the oil is diffused to boost activity in the adrenal cortex to stimulate mind and intellect. It is also used in esthetic treatments to stimulate a sluggish complexion when a few drops are added to a facial steam or used in a massage blend to improve circulation.

Bay Essential Oil

Bay essential oil is used in aromatherapy treatments to promote hair growth and to treat dandruff naturally, but it can also be used in oil blends for muscular and articular aches and pains. The scent of bay oil is considered by many to be a particularly masculine aroma when used by itself, but it is generally blended with other pure essential oils to create a therapeutic synergy. Although its scent is not reminiscent of the commonly used "bayberry" fragrance, it is employed in many men's colognes.

Bergamot Essential Oil

Smelling pure bergamot oil is one of the great joys of aromatherapy. Its scent is so fresh, and clear, and elevating... it's no wonder it is used mainly for its antidepressant properties. Many clinical studies have been done on the effectiveness of bergamot to treat depression, where it has proven to be greatly beneficial. It has also been shown to restore lost appetite, particularly when depression-related. Esthetically it is beneficial for acne, oily skin, and dull, sluggish complexions.

Blood Orange Essential Oil

Blood orange oil is even more orange than orange... which is pretty hard to do! It's scent is very clear and it does not have the "green" notes that other types of oranges have. In aromatherapy it is used to assist with depression, similarly to bergamot oil, due to its natural bergapten content. It is used for aiding digestion and helping to correct digestive issues in parts of Europe and Israel where the oranges are cultivated.

Camphor Essential Oil

Use as a topical pain reliever and sedative. Can also be used for nervous and respiratory diseases in general.

Cardamom Essential Oil

Use as a tonic to improve the actions of the circulatory system. Uplifts and energizes while acting as a tonic stimulant for the body and mind.

Carrot Seed Essential Oil

Carrot seed oil has many aromatherapy applications, both topically for esthetic treatments and internally. It is used in dilution to revitalize skin suffering from a lack of tone and is used in all quality facial treatments. Internally a few drops can be taken in convalescence to stimulate and tone the liver to assist its regeneration. Carrot seed oil is generally non-sensitizing, but should be used in a carrier oil for topical treatments.

Cedarwood Essential Oil

Cedarwood is only used externally in aromatherapy, either topically or through diffusion to stimulate the circulatory system. It is a spa favorite when combined with other essential oils in Swedish and deep tissue massage formulas used in exclusive anti-cellulite treatments. The oil can also be added to sachets placed in areas where clothing is stored to drive away insects that like to eat cotton and wool, or to revitalize older cedar chests that have dissipated their scent over time.

Chamomile German Essential Oil

Use for inflammations of the skin and eczema, infected wounds, and liver regeneration. Cosmetically reduces under-eye puffiness when used with a carrier oil such as rose hip seed or evening primrose oil.

Chamomile Roman Essential Oil

Use as a stimulant for increasing production of white blood corpuscles. It has been medically proven to cure insomnia with continual use.

Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil

Use as an antiseptic for colds and viral infections, or diluted in carrier oil for rheumatism.

Cinnamon Leaf Essential Oil

Use in place of the bark oil. Cinnamon leaf oil is not as sweet smelling as the bark oil and is milder in nature.

Citronella Essential Oil

Having pure citronella essential oil in your arsenal of natural oils is a must because of its ability to ward off mosquitoes and other pesky critters like fleas. Diffusing the oil in a controlled environment will not only improve the scent of the area, but will go a long way to reduce the nuisance. Its aromatherapy uses extend to insect repellent blends, pet shampoos and natural flea treatments.

Clary Sage Essential Oil

Use to reduce tension. Can also be added to jojoba and applied to hair roots to stimulate growth.

Clove Essential Oil

Use externally in dilution for rheumatism, arthritis, and muscular aches and pains. Can also be used as a spot treatment for a toothache.

Coriander Essential Oil

Use as a warming pain-easer for arthritis. Can also be used in a topical treatment blend for oily skin, blackheads, and skin impurities.

Cypress Essential Oil

Inhale for strength and comfort. Use topically to reduce overactive sweat and oil glands. Can also be used to reduce fluid retention and cellulite.

Eucalyptus Essential Oil

Use for respiratory ailments, bronchitis, feverish conditions, the flu, and skin problems such as burns, ulcers, and wounds.

Fennel Essential Oil

Use for weight loss: it has traditionally been used for obesity, which may be due to a type of estrogenic action. Can also be used to increase the milk of nursing mothers.

Fir Needle Essential Oil

Use to clear the mind while the body relaxes. Can also be used for respiratory complaints, fever, muscular and rheumatic pain.

Frankincense Essential Oil

Use topically for the reduction of wrinkles and fine lines when blended with evening primrose as a carrier oil. Breathing the scent of frankincense oil slows and deepens the breath allowing one to become more centered. For this, it is prized as an invaluable aid to meditation and prayer.

Geranium Essential Oil

Use as a cellular regenerative in the treatment of acne, burns, broken capillaries, mature skin, and eczema or red irritations on the skin. Can also be used for cellulite and oily, congested skin.

Ginger Essential Oil

Use for arthritis or rheumatism. Can also be used to "warm" the body when added to a body treatment oil.

Grapefruit Essential Oil

Use to break down cellulite when mixed with evening primrose as a carrier oil. Can also be used as a treatment for dull, sluggish complexions.

Helichrysum Essential Oil

If there is an oil that is magical because of how amazingly fast it works for healing... then Helichrysum italicum is that oil! Helichrysum is Greek for "gold of the sun" and has been prized for a thousand years for its therapeutic properties. In aromatherapy it is used topically undiluted for faster healing of cuts, wounds, and bruises. It is highly effective in formulas for diminishing scars and stretch marks, particularly when added to rose hip seed oil. Helichrysum oil has strong purification properties and can also be used to assist with detoxifying from the use of drugs or nicotine products.

Hop Essential Oil

Use as a nerve remedy for insomnia and nervous tension. Can also be used to support estrogen levels during menopause.

Hyssop Essential Oil

Use for respiratory problems including cough and difficulty breathing, such as with asthma, bronchitis, and the common cold.

Juniper Berry Essential Oil

Use to detoxify the body, to expel the buildup of uric acid in the joints, to help the body release fluids (water retention and bloating) and for cellulite treatments.

Labdanum Essential Oil

Use to heighten the senses of touch, feeling, sight, and sound by inhaling through diffusion. It effects the upper brain areas and functions as a quieting tonic for the nerves, and to elevate perception. It is excellent when combined with frankincense for meditation.

Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender is used in aromatherapy primarily for healing burns, sunburns, and some infected wounds. Lavender is literally the most popular scent in the world, but not all lavenders are created equally. Our French lavender is the one lavender in the whole world that we have selected to offer. Its scent is amazingly clear, uplifting, and its soothing purity is unsurpassed. It is a favorite of our customers for reducing stress and tension headaches by applying to the temples.

Lemon Essential Oil

Lemon oil is used for general wellness and mood elevation, but can also be used as an excellent household cleaner and antiseptic. Pure lemon essential oil invigorates the senses and adds cheer to any environment with crisp, fresh, aromatic notes. Perfect for areas that really need a good aromatherapy zap to clear the air and refresh the spirit.

Lemongrass Essential Oil

Lemongrass oil has a smooth creamy-lemony scent that calms the nerves and in aromatherapy it is often used as a tonic sedative for the central nervous system. It has strong germicidal properties, so it can also be used as an air purifier for environments with infectious disease, especially in those cold winter months when there are a lot of viruses passed around. Adding lemongrass essential oil to an immune-boosting blend for diffusion or just using it by itself is a great way to prevent illness while making things smell great!

Lime Essential Oil

Everyone's inner child loves the smell of pure lime essential oil. Somehow it's just instantly uplifting and reminds you of everything that's good in life. In aromatherapy it is regularly used to elevate the spirits, but it also has strong immunological properties and can be used for fever, infections, sore throat, and colds. It's the perfect oil to get children involved with using essential oils for health and wellness, because they don't resist using it.

Magnolia Essential Oil

It is easy to understand why people love the scent of pure magnolia flowers... they truly offer an amazing aroma that both calms the nerves and stimulates awareness. Magnolia blossom essential oil is very concentrated and it can smell rather intense straight out of the bottle. In order to enjoy the softer magnolia aroma that you are searching for, you will need to dilute the pure essential oil in a carrier or treatment oil. A little of this oil goes a really long way... but it lasts forever too!

Mandarin Essential Oil

Use to strengthen the digestive function and the liver. Can also be used for depression.

Marjoram Essential Oil

Use for anxiety, grief, migraines, or over-active sex drive. Can also be used in massage for athletes after heavy workouts, it increases circulation for the oxygenation of tissues and increases recovery speed.

Melissa Essential Oil

Use to strenghten and revive the vital spirit: it is excellent for anxiety, melancholy, and depressive illness.

Mugwort Essential Oil

Used by indigenous shamans as a liquid "dream pillow" to promote vivid dreams when added to an herb pillow. It is popularly used as a pillow spray or anointing oil. The legacy of mugwort oil has endured throughout the centuries by many cultures and has always been considered a sacred essence.

Myrrh Essential Oil

Myrrh oil is used in aromatherapy to revitalize wrinkled and aging skin when blended into a carrier oil like evening primrose oil. Renowned for thousands of years as an oil prized for beauty, it also has incredibly therapeutic properties for skin maladies, like dry skin, chapped skin, eczema, psoriasis. Myrrh oil should be added to a carrier oil for topical treatments, but it is not intended for internal use in aromatherapy.

Nutmeg Essential Oil

Use for conditions related to circulation, muscles and joints like arthritis, gout, muscular aches and pains, and poor circulation. Nutmeg has been found to help with nervous conditions as well as being an immune system stimulator and aphrodisiac.

Orange Essential Oil

Use as an antidepressant and nerve sedative. Can also be used to help digestive processes including the kidney and gall bladder.

Oregano Essential Oil

Oregano is one of the most powerful anti-viral oils available that is safe for internal use, since it comes from a cooking herb. There are many "oregano" oils on the market, but many of them are not the 'true' oregano. Our oregano is the correct botanical and has a very high percentage of carvacrol, which is considered the most effective compound in the oil for therapeutic purposes. In aromatherapy it is used as a powerful antiseptic, bacteria killer, and virucide. Inhale for respiratory problems, asthma, bronchitis, and viral and bacterial pneumonia. Use in dilution for topical treatments.

Palmarosa Essential Oil

Use to stimulate cell regeneration and to treat acne, dermatitis, and minor skin infections. Can also be inhaled to have a normalizing effect on the thyroid gland.

Patchouli Essential Oil

Patchouli is used topically in aromatherapy for dry, chapped, or weathered skin, and is known therapeutically for its regenerative properties. Inhalation of patchouli oil helps to balance and stimulate the pituitary gland, so it often used to help ground and stabilize the emotions. Patchouli is one of the most popular essential oils in the world, used heavily as a perfumery component and worn as a personal scent for its earthy appeal.

Pepper Black Essential Oil

Use to stimulate the digestive system, and to stimulate the reproductive system as an aphrodisiac. It acts as a pain killer, stimulates blood circulation, and is best used very diluted in blends.

Peppermint Essential Oil

Peppermint oil is highly prized in aromatherapy for many uses, both internal and external. Internally, a few drops can be taken to ease nausea and stomach aches, motion sickness, vomiting in pregnancy, and cramps. Externally it is used topically when diluted in blends for sore muscles and cooling the body. When used in a diffuser for aromatherapy it has been found to stimulate the nervous system and calm the mind.

Petitgrain Essential Oil

Use to refresh the senses, clear confusion, and reduce mental fatigue and depression. Can be used as a milder replacement for neroli oil.

Pine Needle Essential Oil

Use to stimulate blood circulation for arthritic pain or muscular aches and pains in general. Can also be used to soothe mental stress and relieve anxiety.

Radiata Essential Oil

Use in place of eucalyptus globulus when using with children. It is gentle but effective for the same conditions and has a more appealing scent.

Ravensara Essential Oil

Ravensara is known to be one of the strongest anti-viral essential oils. Use for congestion in the chest, the sinuses and breathing passages, for muscular relaxing, and relieving menstrual discomfort and aches and pains. It has been shown to be effective in the treatment of cold sores, shingles and genital herpes.

Rosemary Essential Oil

Rosemary oil has diverse uses in aromatherapy. Topically it can be used to treat muscular and rheumatic pain. Use in the bath or in massage oil is greatly effective for improving the body's overall circulation and is known to assist in relieving liver congestion. It is used in aromatherapy by diffusion for depressive states with general debility and indications of cardiovascular weakness, but is also renowned for its ability to aide the memory and is particularly useful when studying because rosemary oil increases neural activity in the brain.

Rosewood Essential Oil

Use as a stress reliever and for its tonic benefits for the central nervous system. Can also be used as an effective acne spot treatment.

Sage Essential Oil

Use to stop sweating and lactation, reduce night sweats, and to have a restorative effect on the body. Can also be used to purify the spirit and release mental exhaustion.

Sandalwood Essential Oil

One of the oldest and most revered essential oils known to man. Use for clearing acne and skin complaints, and for infections of the urinary tract. Can also be used for meditation and increased subtle perceptions.

Spearmint Essential Oil

Use to relieve mental strain and fatigue and to tone the entire system. It is an excellent pore cleanser when added to facial steams or cleansing treatments.

Spikenard Essential Oil

Use to regulate heart beat, harmonize the blood circulation, and regenerate a balanced skin system.

Spruce Essential Oil

Use to stimulate healthy function of the respiratory system and the adrenal glands. Can also be used for arthritis and aching joints.

Tangerine Essential Oil

Use in massage oil to break down cellulite and pockets of fat while helping to stimulate drainage of the lymphatic system.

Tea Tree Essential Oil

Tea Tree essential oil is most effective for anything related to fungal infections. Restore your fingernails and toenails to their natural beauty when used directly on embedded nail fungus, or to quickly relieve the cracking and discomfort of athlete's foot or jock itch (diluted). Also useful for disinfecting minor cuts and scrapes.

Thyme Red Essential Oil

Use for the prevention and treatment of infection: stimulates production of white corpuscles in infectious diseases (leucocytosis).

Verbena Essential Oil

Use as a digestive stimulant to soothe the stomach and relieve digestive disturbance. Can also be used to calm excessive nervousness and improve concentration.

Vetiver Essential Oil

Use to stimulate the circulation for aching joints or arthritis, and for dry, irritated, mature or aging skin.

Wintergreen Essential Oil

Use mainly for joint and muscular problems when diluted in a carrier oil. Can also be used for respiratory conditions such as chronic mucous discharge.

Wormwood Essential Oil

Wormwood is the main ingredient in the famed 'Green Faerie' absinthe liqueur that is outlawed for import into the U.S. due to its halucinogenic effects from high thujone levels. This oil has a long history of herbal use, but is not considered practical for aromatherapy due to containing some compounds which are considered to have a low therapeutic margin. The distilled oil is concentrated and should be used with care.

Ylang Ylang Extra Essential Oil

Considered the crown jewel of the Ylang Ylang levels, the Extra is prized for its amazing floral top notes. Use to calm breathing, for high blood pressure, and to treat impotence (frigidity). Ylang-Ylang means 'Flower of Flowers' and is an exotic, aphrodisiac floral. It is available in 3 distillations, from the Extra, which is the most floral to the Ylang-Ylang III, which is more bourbon-like in scent.

Ylang Ylang I Essential Oil

Ylang Ylang I is the most popular of the Ylang Ylang levels because it is still very floral but not as premiumly priced as the Extra. Use to calm breathing, for high blood pressure, and to treat impotence (frigidity). Ylang-Ylang means 'Flower of Flowers' and is an exotic, aphrodisiac floral. It is available in 3 distillations, from the Extra, which is the most floral to the Ylang-Ylang III, which is more bourbon-like in scent.

Ylang Ylang III Essential Oil

Ylang Ylang III is generally considered to be the more masculine of the Ylang Ylang levels because it does not have the intense floral top notes of the Extra. Use to calm breathing, for high blood pressure, and to treat impotence (frigidity). Ylang-Ylang means 'Flower of Flowers' and is an exotic, aphrodisiac floral. It is available in 3 distillations, from the Extra, which is the most floral to the Ylang-Ylang III, which is more bourbon-like in scent.