Vanilla Essential Oil
Yummy, sweet and comforting...
like a soft, warm hug!
Vanilla essential oil has a lovely earthy-sweet scent that brings us home.
With its comforting, heart-warming aroma, vanilla oil is popular for cooking, candles, perfumes, massage and body oils.
Vanilla essential oil (also called Vanilla Absolute) is completely different from Vanilla Extract.
Vanilla extract is made for flavoring food, and Vanilla Absolute is used in aromatherapy and the perfume industry.
Vanilla is used in aromatherapy primarily for its relaxing, aphrodisiac effect.
It can also help with depression and grief, as it balances emotions, promotes serenity and comforts sadness.
Vanilla essential oil is actually an oleoresin that's solvent-extracted from cured vanilla beans.
It's a very thick, viscous oil (so don't use it in your essential oil nebulizer!)
It should be stored in dark glass bottles, since it's been found to dissolve aluminum bottles.
Botanical Name and Characteristics
Vanilla planifolia
A type of wild orchid, the vanilla plant is a perennial vine that can climb up to 80 feet (25 meters) high,
with clusters of white and yellow flowers. The essential oil is solvent-extracted from its ripe, cured pods (vanilla beans.)
Rich, warm, earthy, spicy, sweet vanilla scent.
Therapeutic Action
- lifts mood
- calms and relaxes nerves
- comforts and eases depression and sadness
- soothes feelings of anger and frustration
- reduces stress
- aphrodisiac
- promotes good sleep
- helps balance the female hormonal system; may induce menstruation
Blending
Vanilla is often used to round out essential oil blends.
Its strong middle/top note blends well with bergamot, grapefruit, lemon, orange, sandalwood and vetiver.
Cautions
Non-toxic. Do not use on skin during pregnancy.
Buy Vanilla Essential Oil
Click here to buy vanilla essential oil
from Mountain Rose Herbs (scroll 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 vanilla 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!
Buyer Beware: Don't be fooled - if the label or product description says "fragrance oil" it's synthetic, and not real vanilla at all.
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