Essential Oils - P to Z

Palmarosa essential oil is refreshing and soothing. It can be beneficial for problem and oily skin and is also good for mature skin. It has a rosy, fresh and grassy like aroma.

Parsely seed essential oil has a warm woody-spicy herbaceous aroma. It has cleansing properties with the parsley herb being high is vitamins A and C.

Patchouli essential oil is a relaxing, sensual and soothing essential oil. The soothing, regenerative and antiseptic properties of patchouli essential oil make it invaluable in skin care preparations for dry, mature, problem or itchy skin.

Peppermint essential oil has cooling, invigorating, clearing, refreshing and antiseptic properties. It is refreshing to the nasal passages when used as an inhalant.

Peppermint essential oil has cooling, invigorating, clearing, refreshing and antiseptic properties. It is refreshing to the nasal passages when used as an inhalant. Peppermint essential oil is mildly antiseptic and helps purify the skin.

Peru Balsam is clear yellow to yellow brown liquid. It has a vanilla like scent. For this reason you will see it as a scenting agent in creams and lotions.

Petitgrain essential oil is relaxing and refreshing, although it can be soothing, depending on which combination of essential oils it is blended with.

Pimento Berry essential oil is used by the food industry extensively in frozen foods for flavoring, while in perfumery it is used primarily to create mens fragrances

Pine essential oil has fresh, bracing, antibacterial and stimulating properties. Pine essential oil is a ideal for use in inhalations. It has a positive, strengthening affect on both the mind and body.

Ravansara essential oil has antiseptic, clearing and stimulating properties. This oil has a very powerful antiseptic action which makes it ideal for use in the bath or vaporiser during the cold season.

Rosemary essential oil is invigorating, enlivening and energising, giving clarity to the mind and aiding concentration. Rosemary essential oil is a toning essential oil for the body, helpful with muscular fatigue.

Rose Geranium essential oil is a fresh floral and sweet smelling oil which is used in skin care products for both its fragrance, and cleansing properties.

Rose otto essential oil is used in skin care preparations, especially for mature and sensitive complexions and wrinkles.

Rosewood essential oil is warming and comforting. It has a sweet, floral aroma with a woody undertone.

Sage essential oil - Salvia officinalis

Sandalwood essential oil (Fusanus Spicatus Wood Oil) has soothing, cooling and moisturising properties and is primarily used for dry skin conditions caused by a loss of moisture.

Origin: Australia

The properties of spearmint essntial oil are similar to peppermint, but its effects are less powerful. Spearmint essential oil is a perennial herb. It has a warm, spicy-herbaceous, mint odour.

Spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi root oil) essential oil has strengthening, rejuvenating and unifying properties. Spikenard essential oil has a warm, misty, heavy aroma.

Spruce essential oil has a fresh, woody, earthy, sweet (slightly fruity) aroma.

Tangerine essential oil has antiseptic, relaxing and anti-fungal properties similar to that of orange and mandarin), but is slightly spicier with a sweet floral citrus aroma.

Tarragon essential oil has a rich, sweet, spicy, anise-like, green scent. It is light yellow in colour and has a thin consistency. Tarragon essential oil has a Top Note.

Tea Tree essential oil is a wonderful antiseptic essential oil which can help maintain a healthy and balanced immune system.

Thyme oil has antiseptic, reviving, fortifying and emotionally uplifting, cleansing and purifying properties.

Valerian essential oil has soothing, relaxing and balancing properties. Valerian is a powerful essential oil and can be used in massage to subdue restlessness and over-excitability.

Vetiver essential oil has warming, sensuous, comforting, supporting, grounding and relaxing properties. It is used extensively in perfumery for its fixative effects as well as its fragrance. Vetiver has a sweet, woody and earthy aroma.

Yarrow essential oil has balancing, soothing and liberating properties. This oil is very similar in colour, chemical composition and action to German Chamomile.

Ylang ylang essential oil has sensual and soothing and deeply relaxing properties that uplift the spirit and promote a sense of self confidence and ease.

Ylang ylang II essential oil has sensual and soothing and deeply relaxing properties that uplift the spirit and promote a sense of self confidence and ease.

Ylang Ylang Extra essential oil has sensual and soothing and deeply relaxing properties that uplift the spirit and promote a sense of self confidence and ease.

Wintergreen has a history of use as a pain reliever. It is also believed to increase the speed of healing for skin disorders, and when added to lotions, acts as a natural moisturizer.