Palo Santo Essential Oil

Bursera graveolens
Palo Santo oil is a true aromatic treasure and an Anima Mundi staple. It is renowned for its distinctive uplifting fragrance and its pronounced healing powers. Palo Santo Essential Oil is rich in limonene. A natural purifier, use it in your diffuser to keep you and your family healthy through the winter months. Palo Santo oil is among the best oils to use via direct palm inhalation for its clearing and inspiring properties. It has settling, calming and grounding qualities, thus making it a great ally for maintaining emotional equanimity, as well as a superb oil for spiritual uplifting.

Palo Santo is said to have an emotionally uplifting and balancing effect. Often used for shamanic ritual, it is a valuable tool for meditation, enhancing creativity, and for tasks requiring sustained concentration. With a softness and sweetness similar to some species of Frankincense, it is an ideal additive to massage oils.

Aromatic Profile:
Perfumery Note: top to middle
Odor: citrus with resinous wood notes, fresh
Strength of Initial Aroma: strong
Dry-out: soft, gentle, musky
Blends Well With: other woods and resins such as Cedarwood, Frankincense, Sandalwood and Myrrh

SUGGESTED USE:
Direct Palm Inhalation: Perhaps the easiest way to use Palo Santo Oil is through a simple direct palm inhalation. Place a drop of this uplifting and clarifying oil in the palm of your hand, gently rub the palms together, bring them towards your face and take a deep inhalation....enjoy the effect!

Diffuser: Palo Santo is an ideal oil for your diffuser, and combines well with its botanical cousin, Frankincense. Diffuse it in your home to help protect, purify, and stay healthy.

Other Suggested Uses:

Add several drops and apply as a cold compress to soothe and relax any specific area of the body.

Use a few drops in steaming water as vapor therapy. Its effects are very clarifying and pleasant.

Blend Palo Santo Oil with any massage oil to relax tension and strain in the body, and provide comprehensive support.