Cypress Essential Oil
Calming, cheering, refreshing
Cypress essential oil has a fabulous woody, relaxing scent.
It calms and relaxes you while at the same time sharpening your mental clarity - perfect to use during a long, stressful day.
Cypress is also well known for reducing perspiration, especially of the feet, for clearing up
dandruff and oily skin. Great for skincare recipes!
Cypress oil narrows your blood vessels, so it's good for healing bruises and hemorrhoids, as well as
reducing varicose veins.
Apply a cool compress with a few drops of cypress oil diluted in a tablespoon of carrier oil. You can do this up to three times a day.
Aromatherapists use cypress oil to help calm asthma symptoms as well as dry, ticklish coughs,
bronchitis, emphysema, whooping cough and the flu - basically anything yucky in the lungs.
It's also good for muscle cramps (including period pain) and arthritis pain.
Botanical Name and Characteristics
Cupressus sempervirens
Cypress is a conical evergreen tree that grows from 80 to 160 feet high.
It has dark green foliage, small flowers and round brown-grey cones.
Some cypress trees are believed to be more than 3000 years old.
The essential oil is steam distilled from the twigs, leaves and cones.
Fresh, clean, spicy, herbaceous, woody scent.
Therapeutic Action
- relaxes nerves
- lifts mood
- reduces stress and nervous tension
- promotes sleep
- refreshes, improving mental clarity and alertness
- balances the nervous system
- relaxes tight muscles
- reduces perspiration
- tones and clarifies skin
- contracts connective tissue
- helps reduce cellulite
- detoxifies
- contains a phyto-hormone similar to estrogen
Blending
Cypress's medium-strength middle note blends well with bergamot, clary sage, fennel, grapefruit, juniper, lavender, lemon, lime, orange, pine and rosemary.
Cautions
No known cautions.
Buy Cypress Essential Oil
Click here to buy cypress essential oil
from Mountain Rose Herbs (scroll a little way down the page; they're in alphabetical order.)
I always recommend Mountain Rose first because I like and trust them.
Their quality is excellent, their prices are good, and many of their essential oils are organic (and all of them are therapeutic grade.)
Or you could
shop for cypress oil
at Amazon. They have a number of different brands available at a variety of prices. (Just remember, you get what you pay for.) Happy hunting!
In terms of recommending suppliers, there's lots of really good suppliers out there, but I keep balking at the price.
I can't in good conscience send you to a supplier whose quality is similar to Mountain Rose but who charges considerably (or even a little) more.
I wouldn't do it myself, and I won't recommend it to you.
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