| Origin: France
Method: Steam Distilled, Organic
Aromatherapy Applications:
Use primarily for healing burns, sunburns, and some infected wounds. Can also be used for headaches by inhalation and applying to the temples.
Characteristics:
The oil is a colorless to pale yellow liquid with a sweet, floral-herbaceous scent and balsamic-woody undertone. It is used as a fixative in perfumery and blends well with most essential oils.
Principal Constituents:
Linalyl acetate, linalol, lavandulol, lavandulyl acetate, terpineol, cineol, limonene, ocimene, caryophyllene.
General Actions:
Analgesic, anticonvulsive, antidepressant, antimicrobial, antirheumatic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, antitoxic, carminative, cholagogue, choleretic, cicatrizant, cytophylactic, deodorant, diuretic, emmenagogue, hypotensive, insecticide, nervine, parasiticide, rubefacient, sedative, stimulant, sudorific, tonic, vermifuge, vulnerary.
Safety:
Generally non-toxic, non-irritant, nonsensitizing.
Primary Therapy Agent:
Burns, headache, migraine, insomnia.
Secondary Therapy Agent:
Wrinkles, mature skin.
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