Tulsi Essential Oil
Botanical name: Ocimum tenuiflorum
Plant part: Leaves & flowering tops
Cultivation: Wildcrafted
Extraction: Steam distillation
Product description:
Tulsi is found in almost every Indian household where it has been used for around 5000 years, it is even considered the most sacred herb and lovingly called the “Queen of herbs”
Acclaimed for its healing properties of the mind, body, and spirit as well as a unique blend of medicinal and fragrant qualities gave this herbaceous minty oil the well-deserved nickname "Elixir of life"
Tulsi meaning "the incomparable one", is believed to powerfully boost vitality as it embodies a purifying radiance that refines body, mind, and spirit and is a necessity to be incorporated into daily life.
Aromatherapy:
- Help adapt to and relieve stress
- Refreshing
- Restorative
Healing:
- Beneficial adaptogen properties make it helpful in balancing different body processes.
- Beneficial immune enhancing properties.
- Beneficial analgesic properties make it helpful in treating headaches, joint pain, inflammation and neurological pain.
- Beneficial in managing blood cholesterol levels, reducing blood sugar and treating cardiovascular disorders
Skincare:
- Aids aging/combination/dry/normal/oily skin
- Beneficial antiseptic properties make it helpful in treating cuts, wounds, bruises, ulcers etc.
- Helps tighten pores, lighten, brighten and tone skin
- Beneficial scar fading and lightening properties
- Helpful in treating eczema, blackheads, acne, and pimples.
- Helpful in treating ringworm, bacterial and other skin infections
- Helps heal skin, relieve pain and calm the itch of an insect bite
- Calms irritated skin, sunburn, and rashes.
Hair care:
- Helps strengthen, rejuvenate, stimulate hair shaft and follicles
- Helps maintain healthy, hydrated scalp
- Help reduce scalp itchiness and improve circulation.
Meditation:
- Warming
- Clarifying
- Uplifting
Product color: Clear to pale yellow or green
Aroma profile: Sharp, fresh, sweet - spicy, camphoraceous, herbaceous - minty, licorice-like
Perfumery note: Middle or Top
Consistency: Thin
Blends well with:
Essential oils of Citrus, Florals, Bergamot, Clary sage, Geranium, Hyssop, Lime, Opopanax, Oakmoss and Citronella
Generally known to be safe i.e non-sensitizing and non-irritating when diluted properly to a dermal maximum of 0.5% or less, it is dermo caustic if safe dilution rates are exceeded.
Avoid use if susceptible to epilepsy, have hypoglycemia (abnormally low blood sugar, as Tulsi will further reduce levels which could be dangerous) or during pregnancy. Do not use on children under 2 years old.