DESCRIPTION
This essential oil is highly cooling and refreshing and extensively used in aromatherapy. It helps to stimulate the mind, increases mental agility and also cools the skin, reducing redness and calming irritation and itchiness. Further, it also helps to ease spastic colon, headaches, migraine, sinus and boosts the digestive system.
COMMON NAMES
Mentha piperita, Peppermint, Brady mint, Balm mint, Curled mint, Lamb mint.
BLENDS WITH:
This oil blends well with benzoin, eucalyptus, lavender, marjoram, lemon and rosemary.
CONSTITUENTS
The components of peppermint oil includes menthol, menthone, 1,8-cineole, methyl acetate, methofuran, isomenthone, limonene, b-pinene, a-pinene, germacrene-d, trans-sabinene hydrate and pulegone.
USES
This oil is great for mental fatigue and depression, stimulates mental agility and also improves concentration. It is effective for apathy, shock, migraine, headache, nervous stress, vertigo and faintness and in general respiratory disorders. This oil is also useful to relieve skin irritation and itchiness and helps to reduce skin redness.
These Oils are awesome. I have received surplus compliments from my guests who have fed themselves on the edibles......Steve Johnson - England
