Description

Benzoin is the active ingredient for "Friars Balsam". It is used as an inhalation for coughs and loss of voice, and also helps heal chapped and cracked hands when added to a base cream. It is comforting and uplifing with a faint vanilla scent. This oil is collected in a solid form and is thinned using di propylene glycol.

Basil blends well with lavender, bergamot, clary sage and geranium. Its active principles include methylchavicol (40 to 50%) with linalol, cineol, eugenol, pinene and camphor. It should NOT be used when pregnant.

Specific Cautions

References

Information about this essential oil came from the following sources:

1. Worwood, Valerie Ann. The Fragrant Pharmacy. (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1990)
2. Davis, Patricia. Aromatherapy: An A-Z. (United Kingdom: Saffron Walden, 1988)
3. Tisserand, Robert and Tony Balacs. Essential Oil Safety. (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1995)

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