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Palmarosa essential oil (Cymbopogon martinii var martinii) is obtained from a sweet-scented grass found growing wild throughout India, especially to the northeast of Bombay and toward the Himalaya Mountains, Nepal and Pakistan. Palmarosa grass is native to Southeast Asia and has been used in medicine and also as an effective insect repellent throughout this region for thousands of years.
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Since time immemorial ginger has been valued as a spice and medicine, and today it is still traded as a valued commodity around the world, either fresh, dried, ground, crystallised, candied, or preserved. As if all of that is not enough, the plant also provides one of the most effective and therapeutic tools available to the aromatherapist; ginger essential oil.
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The cinnamon tree belongs to the Lauraceae family and provides commerce with two different oils; cinnamon leaf essential oil and cinnamon bark essential oil. The former oil is the type used in aromatherapy, whereas oil from the bark contains a very high concentration of cinnamic aldehyde which is a powerful skin irritant, therefore this particular type of cinnamon oil should not be used in aromatherapy.
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Lemon essential oil is popular in aromatherapy because it has a wonderful, fresh aroma, delivers an impressively large number of health benefits, and is extremely inexpensive. Few essential oils offer the same versatility within the same price range of lemon, and this is probably due to the fact that the fruit and essential oil is produced on a grand scale. After sweet orange, lemon probably ranks second (or joint second with grapefruit) as the most commercially important citrus fruit. Read more…

Benzoin essential oil can be derived from various Styrax species which originate in several geographical locations. Styrax benzoin is known commercially as benzoin Sumatra due to its origin, and Styrax tonkinensis is called benzoin Siam. Due to the low quantities of benzoin oil produced from Styrax tonkinensis together with its popularity in the perfumery industry, benzoin Sumatra tends to be the one found most commonly in the aromatherapy market. Read more…

New to the Quinessence Aromatherapy Collection for 2012 is infused Arnica Oil, which is renowned for its unique anti-inflammatory, soothing and healing properties. Arnica’s reputation for reducing pain and swelling is both legendary and well deserved, and this is why we included it in the formula for Aroma-botanicals Therapy Base Cream almost 10 years ago!
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