Overview: Peppermint Essential Oil

Peppermint oil is a must-have essential oil. It is an affordable, versatile oil everyone should have in their home. Besides its fresh and energizing scent, it is great for soothing headaches and muscles aches, alleviating seasonal allergy symptoms, boosting energy, relieving stress, and repelling insects.

Peppermint oil is also widely used for calming skin irritation and itchiness, as well as reducing redness, which makes it a great oil for treating acne. Its analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic properties, help in relieving pain and inflammation, but can also calm muscle spasms and cramps. Plus, its fresh scent and antiseptic properties make it great to use in DIY home cleaning products. It can even used in mouthwash to help prevent or reduce bad breath by neutralizing odors killing germs and bacteria that cause tooth decay and plaque with its antiseptic properties.

It is never advised to use peppermint oil on young children.

BOTANICAL NAME

Mentha piperita

EXTRACTION

Peppermint oil is extracted by steam distillation of the fresh or partially dried plant.

BLENDS WELL WITH

The aroma of peppermint essential oil is considered cool, minty, fresh, and clean. It blends well with

• Oregano
• Marjoram
• Cypress
• Eucalyptus
• Geranium
• Grapefruit
• Juniper Berry
• Lavender
• Lemon
• Rosemary
• Tea Tree (Melaleuca)

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION

Peppermint oil’s main chemical components are menthol, menthone, menthyl acetate, 1,8-cineole, limonene, beta-pinene, beta-caryophyllene

SHELF LIFE

4 years

PRECAUTIONS*

Avoid using peppermint oil on children under the age of 8.

* Please remember, just because a product is called “natural” does NOT mean that it doesn’t have possible side effects. Never apply essential oils directly to your skin without a carrier oil, and never ingest any essential oil.

Essential oils are NOT a replacement for medical treatments, but they can work as a great complement to your regular health and wellness routine.