Product Description
Frankincense oil is a transparent or brownish liquid oil with a distinct strong frankincense aroma. Humanity has been using it in medicine since ancient times for its disinfectant and wound healing properties, as well as a popular ingredient in cosmetics and perfumes. In ancient China, it was primarily used for treating respiratory diseases and leprosy, but nowadays it is only applied externally.
Aromatherapy is suitable for refreshing the mind and achieving a meditative state when used in a diffuser or incense burner.
Due to its disinfectant, bacteria-killing, and wound-healing properties, it is suitable for treating minor skin injuries and everyday skincare.
Usage modes:
In creams, cosmetics: It can be used combined with any base oil in face creams, body lotions, lip balms, hand creams, facial tonics, and soaps. We recommend it primarily for the care of problematic, acne-prone, blackhead-prone skin. When used in moisturizing creams, it tightens and firms the skin, fades minor wrinkles and superficial scars.
In anti-aging cosmetics: frankincense oil is particularly suitable for caring for mature skin. It hydrates and nourishes fragile, mature, or dry skin, fills in fine lines, soothes inflammations, and softens and makes it more elastic.
To improve general well-being: Effective against feelings of fatigue, depression, and discomfort. It works best when used in a diffuser or added to bath water for a calming effect.
For caring for problematic, oily skin: effectively regulates sebum production, making it ideal for caring for oily, acne-prone skin.
For making massage oils and creams: can be used by dripping into any base oil (coconut oil, olive oil, etc.), for therapeutic massages, sports massages, relaxing massages. With its pleasant scent it helps relaxation, refreshes the body and mind.
To make a relaxing bath: Add 5-10 drops of frankincense oil to your bathwater and enjoy its mood-boosting, invigorating effects! He
For sauna: suitable for diffusion in the sauna, either alone or blended with other essential oils. It refreshes the mind and helps detoxify the skin.
To relieve the symptoms of a cold: In the winter season, you can use inhalation, diffuser, or apply it to a cream to relieve respiratory illnesses and colds.
Injuries treatment: Frankincense oil has disinfectant and antibacterial properties, so it can be used for disinfecting minor surface wounds and accelerating wound healing.
For hair care: to get rid of itchy scalp and dandruff, add 5-6 drops of frankincense oil to a 1:1 mixture of almond oil and castor oil, leave the mixture on your hair for half an hour, then wash your hair as usual.
Production: steam distillation
Composition, active ingredients: alpha-pinene, alpha-thujene, limonene, sabinene, mono- and sesquiterpenes
All about frankincense oil:
Like myrrh, frankincense is a plant belonging to the family of balsam trees, primarily native to Somalia but also widespread in Nubia, Egypt, and Arabia. The extraction of the valuable frankincense oil is similar to that of myrrh: the resinous sap of the plant is collected by tapping the tree's bark, and then the oil is extracted from this sap through steam distillation.
Frankincense has been used by humanity for thousands of years, it was considered an important commodity in Phoenician trade. In Egypt and Phoenicia, the burning of frankincense was an important part of sacrificial offerings, later adopted by various religions. Frankincense, along with gold and myrrh, was one of the gifts of the Magi symbolizing purity. In reality, it has disinfectant properties and burning it can lead to spiritual purification, therefore it was used in temples and various rituals.
Fun fact: tapping a frankincense tree can take up to 4 months, during which approximately 10 kilograms of resin can be extracted. In Hungarian folklore, it is believed that frankincense can ward off evil, hence the expression "Avoiding it like the devil avoids incense smoke".