Top Ten Uses for Frankincense Essential Oil

frankincense-2207Welcome to another week of Organica J’s Top Ten Uses! This week will be focusing on 10 helpful uses for Frankincense essential oil (boswellia carteri).

Frankincense essential oil is a favourite and used in a few of our organic skincare products.  It is an essential ingredient in our Meditation Blend which calms and stills the mind, and also in our skin balancing and restoring orange and frankincense soap.  They are all made with 100% organic ingredients.

Here’s our Top Ten Uses:

1. can alleviate anxiety
2. a powerful meditation aid
3. good for dry & mature skin
4. helpful for scars
5. can aid respiratory issues
6. reputed to ‘deepen the breath’*
7. can alleviate wrinkles
8. can promote stillness of the mind
9. may be helpful for heavy periods
10. releasing the past and past blocks

For using essential oils for specific medical problemsalways contact a qualified aromatherapist or consult with your GP

Tune in next week for another oil in another Top Ten Uses and comment below what you would like to see next!

Top Ten Uses For Cypress Essential Oil

220945262Welcome to another week of Organica J’s Top Ten Uses! This week will be focusing on 10 helpful uses for Cypress essential oil (cupressus sempervirens).

Here’s our Top Ten Uses:

1. can be helpful for varicose veins
2. can relieve hemorrhoids
3. good for oily skin
4. helpful for sweaty feet.
5. can aid hot flushes in menopause
6. may help regulate menstruation
7. it can be a good deodorant
8. helpful as a cough treatment
9. supportive in times of transition in life
10. it has insect repellent properties

For using essential oils for specific medical problems always contact a qualified aromatherapist or consult with your GP.

Tune in next week for another oil in another Top Ten Uses and comment below what you would like to see next!

Top Ten Uses For Everlasting (Helichrysum) Essential Oil

291755120Welcome to Organica J’s new weekly Top Ten Uses posts, in which we will tell you all about essential oils and what they are good for. This week’s focus is on helichrysum italicum, also known as everlasting. Helichrysum is usually best used in a blend with other oils, such as lavender, mandarin, neroli.  For using essential oils for specific medical problems always contact a qualified aromatherapist.

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