Cypress Essential Oil

Description

Cypress Essential Oil Profile

Botanical: Cupressus sempervirens | Origin: France | Method: Steam Distilled

Characteristics:

A pale yellow to greenish-olive mobile liquid with a smoky, sweet-balsamic tenacious odor. It blends well with cedarwood, pine, lavender, mandarin, clary sage, lemon, cardamom seed, chamomile roman, ambrette seed, labdanum, juniper, benzoin, bergamot, orange, marjoram, and sandalwood.

Principal Constituents:

These are naturally occurring in the essential oil.

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• pinene
• camphene
• sylvestrene
• cymene
• sabinol

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General Actions:

Antirheumatic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, deodorant, diuretic, hepatic, styptic, sudorific, tonic, vasoconstrictor.

Safety:

Generally non-toxic, non-irritant, nonsensitizing.

Primary Therapy Agent:

Excessive perspiration, greasy or oily skin/scalp, hemorrhoids, piles, varicose veins, rheumatism, asthma, menorrhagia.

Secondary Therapy Agent:

Insect repellent, mouth and gum infections, wounds, cellulitis, edema, water retention, muscular cramp, muscle stiffness, poor circulation, low blood pressure, bronchitis, chronic coughs, dysmenorrhea, menopausal problems.

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