Ginger Essential Oil, 10ml

- 100% pure Ginger essential oil. - Botanical Name: Zingiber officinale - Common Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled - Part Typically Used: Root - Color: Light Yellow - Consistency: Thin - Perfumery Note: Middle/Base - Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium - Strong - Aromatic Description: Warm, spicy, earthy, woody. - Ginger Oil Uses: Aching muscles, arthritis, nausea, poor circulation. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: 1995), 60-64.] - Major Constituents of Chinese Ginger Essential Oil: Zingiberene ar-Curcumene B-Sesquiphellandrene B-Bisabolene Camphene B-Phellandrene Borneol 1,8-Cineole a-Pinene B-Elemene Safety Information: Tisserand and Young do not indicate any known hazards for Ginger Oil. Some sources do indicate that Ginger Oil is phototoxic. However, Tisserand and Young state that "Low-level phototoxic effects reported for ginger oil are not considered significant (Opdyke 1974 p. 910-902)." Reading Tisserand and Young's full profile is recommended. [Robert Tisserand and Rodney Young, Essential Oil Safety (Second Edition. United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014), 295.]