Pine Essential Oil

Description

Pine Essential Oil (Pinus sylvestris) distilled needle oil

Our Pine Essential Oil has a strong fresh and invigorating aroma.  Steam distilled from the needles of a tall evergreen tree with long needles and brown cones.

Pine is a clear to pale yellow liquid with a strong dry balsamic aroma.

The ancient Romans and Greeks used Pine to treat respiratory problems and muscular aches and pains. The Native Americans used it to prevent scurvy and also to used pine needles in their bedding to repel lice and fleas. The ancient Egyptians used pine kernels in their cooking. Pine was also traditionally used for fevers, arthritis, rheumatism, muscular pain and respiratory conditions. It now commonly incorporated in the fragrances of air-fresheners, disinfectants, detergents, soaps, and toiletries.

Pine has a powerful antiseptic quality making it a useful oil for the cold and flu season. Diffusing this oil can help to clear a stuffy nose and clear the air. Used in massage, its rubefacient and diuretic properties may help to improve muscular aches and pains, arthritis, and rheumatism.

Pine also has a mild analgesic action that may help to ease the pain of stiff joints and muscles. It acts as a tonic to the whole system, which makes it good for convalescence. It can help to boost the spirits and uplift the emotions.

Pine is a strengthening and grounding oil, bringing the energy of the large strong Pine tree to support the emotions or mood.

Pine Essential Oil is ideal to use in a diffuser or dilute it in an appropriate carrier oil for topical application.