Black Pepper Essential Oil (Piper nigrum)
Black Pepper is a vine. The berries are steam distilled to create a clear to pale olive coloured essential oil. Some of the countries that produce Black Pepper essential oil include India, Indonesia, Brazil and Southeast Asia.
Black Pepper essential oil is a stimulating, warming oil that is well used during the cold winter months in massage oils as well as blended into a carrier oil for an excellent pre or post sport muscle rub. It may be helpful when used in a massage oil when you have aches and pains from a cold or flu.
Black Pepper essential oil may help with fatigue, lethargy, lack of concentration and impotence. In the respiratory tract, Black Pepper essential oil may help with bronchitis, colds, flu, infections and viruses. In a room spray this oil may help to destroy airborne infections.
Black Pepper blends well with Clove essential oil, Frankincense essential oil, Lemon essential oil, Pine essential oil, Rosemary essential oil and Sandalwood essential oil.
Specific Cautions for Black Pepper Essential Oil:
May cause skin irritation. Avoid during pregnancy. Too much can over stimulate the kidneys. Avoid with severe kidney disease.
Our Elevate the Spirit Blend was designed in celebration of the Elevate the Arts festival here in Courtenay. This blend may help boost your creativity while keeping you uplifted.
Elevate the Spirit contains essential oils of: Amyris, Grapefruit, Black Pepper, Rose Geranium, Cedarwood, Spearmint, Ylang Ylang and Vanilla boosted extract.
Amyris is a base note and like most base notes it is calming, sedative and relieves stress.
Black Pepper is a middle note and is best known as a vasodilator and a diuretic which helps with lethargy and concentration.
Cedarwood, another base note, is a tonic, helps to eliminate lactic acid and moves toxins from joints.
Grapefruit is a top note and is well known for lymphatic drainage, cellulite, obesity, water retention, stress, mental fatigue and nervous exhaustion. I like it for its ability to stimulate the emotions.
Rose Geranium is a middle note and is considered to be calming, uplifting and emotionally balancing.
Spearmint is a top note and one of the best stimulants. This oil is used for respiratory problems, digestion, congested skin and nausea. Although
Vanilla has no true therapeutic value, its wonderful scent makes it a good addition to blends and helps bind the oils together.
Ylang Ylang is another base note with so many wonderful properties. Ylang Ylang helps slow rapid breathing and is calming and balancing. This oil is known as an aphrodisiac so helps with impotence and frigidity.
Now you can see why we called this blend Elevate the Spirit!
